Slice joins wealth race with AI-powered ‘personal CFO’
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.Fintech unicorn-turned-bank Slice is preparing to enter wealth management with an AI-powered “personal CFO” embedded in its banking app, according to twopeople familiar with the matter.The company has begun beta-testing the tool, which can track balances, flag idle funds, monitor maturing deposits, build savings prompts around user goals and warn users about potential cash crunches before they happen, the people said.Slice plans to eventually add investment offerings to the platform, though it could not be ascertained when those products would be launched.Many Indians still find investing intimidating because they are overwhelmed by product choices and are unaware of how to build their wealth and assess their risk appetite, the people said. The company believes the move could help it better understand customer behaviour and eventually sharpen the design and distribution of wealth products within the app, according to one of the people cited above.The move signals Slice’s aim to evolve beyond banking, payments and credit into full-stack financial distribution at a time when wealth-tech remains one of the few fintech segments continuing to attract investor interest.The company is pitching the tool as more than a generic chatbot for personal finance, the first person close to the project said.
“This isn’t a chatbot bolted onto a dashboard. It’s a financial mind that lives inside the same account your salary lands in,” said the second person familiar with the development.Slice believes a contextual in-app assistant can do more than a general-purpose AI tool, by tying guidance to a user’s actual financial behaviour and stated goals, the second person added.An email seeking comment was
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