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The Contact Center is the linchpin of a company when it is about customer satisfaction. This is where the first contacts and inquiries are handled. The personal interface between customers and the company plays a decisive role in success because an excellent customer experience becomes a differentiating factor between competitors. The new ASC handbook highlights the current trends and challenges of contact centers and provides recommendations how to deal with compliance requirements and customer…

It is hard to imagine the workplace of the future without collaboration and communication tools like Microsoft Teams. Business processes worldwide are being adapted as more and more employees are working remotely and virtual teams are being merged. This brings new challenges, especially in the field of compliance recording where sensitive data is recorded and processed. With its native Microsoft Teams app Recording Insights, ASC relies on AI-based support for advanced assessment, i. e. on…

In the last 20 years, more and more customers have turned towards banking and finance networks thus influencing the way that banking data is managed. On the downside, financial scandals as well as cases of cybercrime and money laundering have become more frequent, too. As a consequence, the last years have seen a number of new directives or the amendment of existing ones that aim at facilitating tracking transactions. But what does this imply for the retention periods of recorded calls? What…

Financial market directives have a major effect on financial service providers when it comes to recording and evaluating communication. In addition to the second financial market amendment regulation (MiFID II – Markets in Financial Instruments Directive), the recently amended Ordinance on Financial Investment Mediation (FinVermV) brings new obligations for so-called 34f agents. One of them is taping. 34f agents are facing the challenge of familiarizing themselves with recording (taping)…