Customer & Banking Agents
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Backbase Conversational Banking

Formerly Kasisto, Backbase Conversational Banking is the chat and voice agent product Backbase sells to banks. Backbase announced its acquisition of Kasisto on 23 June 2026, and the product now ships within Backbase Agentic Banking.

The agents work across mobile, web, messaging and phone. They answer customers from live account context and bank approved knowledge, carry out payments and card actions with confirmation, and take disputes through investigation and approval. Access, policy and approval checks run before any action executes, and exceptions go to an authorized bank employee.

Backbase cites Kasisto's established customer base across North America but names no bank running the conversational product. kasisto.com now redirects to backbase.com.

Last VerifiedOctober 2, 2026
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Founded
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Headquarters
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Categories
customer-banking-agents, compliance-and-surveillance, wealth-and-advisory
Assessment

Capability Axes

Capability grades

15 of 15 axes rated · 6 graded A or B

AI Capability
AI Centrality
AA on AI CentralityThe artificial intelligence is the product. Remove the models and there is nothing left to sell.
Vendor Published

Agents interpreting chat and voice requests are the product, answering from live account context, executing payments and card actions, and carrying disputes through investigation. Kasisto's financial services intelligence, now Backbase's, sits underneath them.

Autonomy and Oversight Model
AA on Autonomy and Oversight ModelWhat the system runs alone, what constrains it, and how a person checks it are all published: modes, thresholds, sampling or audit controls, and the route a case takes to human review.
Vendor Published

Permissions and policy checks apply before any agent action executes, payments and card actions carry customer confirmation, and exceptions route to an authorized employee with the case context intact. Thresholds that turn an action into an exception are left to each bank's configuration.

Model Risk Management and Transparency
BB on Model Risk Management and TransparencyReal transparency mechanisms are published, such as per alert explainability, confidence scoring or split testing, without the validation package or supervisory mapping behind them.
Vendor Published

Every answer is checked before it reaches the customer and grounded in account data and the bank's approved product information, which gives a validator something to test. Fabrication rates, containment quality and escalation precision are unpublished, and no model risk framework is mapped.

Operational and Outcome Evidence
BB on Operational and Outcome EvidenceVendor aggregate claims with real figures, or audited scale disclosures from a publicly listed company.
Vendor Published

More than 120 banks on the Banking OS and I&M Bank's tenfold onboarding gain belong to digital banking rather than the conversational product. North American customers of Kasisto are cited without one named institution or a containment or resolution figure.

AI Safety and Data Stewardship
CC on AI Safety and Data StewardshipGeneral assurances that do not answer the question this axis asks, which is whether one customer’s data trains models serving its competitors. Unbounded cross client learning stated with no boundary grades here too.
Vendor Published

Frontline outcomes feed a continuous learning loop that refines the banking models, and whether outcomes at one bank inform the models serving another is not stated. Banks on the same platform compete for the same customers.

Regulatory and Compliance
GLBA and Data Privacy Posture
CC on GLBA and Data Privacy PostureA standard privacy policy that covers the website rather than the service, or silence on a product that touches limited consumer data.
Vendor Published

Balances, cards, payments and disputes run through these conversations, yet the product pages offer no data protection terms, subprocessor list or retention period for conversation records. A bank answers to its own customers for how long those records persist.

Security Certifications and Trust Center
CC on Security Certifications and Trust CenterA single footer line, or certifications asserted without being enumerated, which is weaker than naming them because it invites an assumption a buyer cannot check.
Vendor Published

Governed execution and bank controlled access are described, but attestations, certifications and a trust center are not enumerated on the product pages. For an agent that executes payments, that leaves assurance asserted rather than shown.

Regulatory Status and Licensure
CC on Regulatory Status and LicensureThe regulatory position is unstated. Most vendors in this index are technology suppliers and being unlicensed is the correct posture, so this grade records silence about the posture, not a missing license.
Vendor Published

Governance and regulatory controls are said to be built into the Banking OS, with no supervisor, statute or instrument named. An agent that moves money and handles payment disputes works inside electronic transfer error resolution rules and limits on deceptive customer communication.

AI Governance and Bias Disclosure
CC on AI Governance and Bias DisclosureResponsible artificial intelligence committed to in policy language with no evaluation behind it, on a product whose bias surface is modest.
Vendor Published

Dialect, accent and literacy shape how well a conversational system understands people, and voice now runs inbound and outbound with multilingual support. Accuracy across languages and customer groups is unpublished, along with the logic that decides which customers see savings and product prompts.

AI Liability and Recourse
CC on AI Liability and RecourseMechanisms that enable challenge, such as audit trails and source traceability, with nothing standing behind the output and no route for the person affected.
Vendor Published

Evidence behind each decision is retained with its confirmed outcome, so a bank can reconstruct and correct what an agent did. Behind the output stands no published guarantee or indemnity, and a customer given wrong information by an agent has no described route.

Integration and Deployment
Model Supply Chain Disclosure
CC on Model Supply Chain DisclosureThe architecture is described and no provider is named.
Vendor Published

Reasoning native AI and Backbase's own banking models describe the platform, with no model provider, speech service or hosting arrangement named. Whether a frontier model sits between a bank's customers and the answer is not stated.

Core Systems and Integration Depth
AA on Core Systems and Integration DepthNamed integrations with the systems of record, core banking, policy administration, custodial or contact center platforms, verifiable in marketplace listings or public API documentation.
Vendor Published

Nexus maps records across core, CRM and payments systems into a shared customer model that agents read and update. Partner integrations against those systems of record are listed in a Backbase Marketplace.

Deployment Model and Data Residency
CC on Deployment Model and Data ResidencyCloud only with nothing stated, which is the category norm.
Vendor Published

Managed hosting appears among services, but no provider, region or residency commitment is stated for the agents and their conversation records. Customers such as Techcombank in Vietnam, Judo Bank in Australia and Navy Federal Credit Union in the United States each face their own rules on where conversations may be processed.

Commercial
Commercial Transparency
CC on Commercial TransparencyNo price is published and engagement runs through a demo form, which is the norm in this index.
Vendor Published

A 90 day blueprint takes one AI use case to production, and the conversational product can be bought on its own beside an existing digital banking environment. That describes the buying path, while price, package and basis of charge stay unpublished.

Institution and Segment Coverage
AA on Institution and Segment CoverageThe financial segments served are named and each carries its own maintained material, whether the coverage is broad or deliberately narrow.
Vendor Published

Retail, commercial and private banking each carry maintained segment material, with sub pages for functions such as loan origination and advisor performance. The agents serve both customers and employees across that range.

Tracked Since Listing

Product updates

Material product, regulatory, evidence and commercial changes at Backbase Conversational Banking, each verified against a live source and tagged to the capability axis it bears on. Funding rounds and awards are not product changes and are not logged.

Oct 8, 2026Product / capability

Backbase made Conversational Banking generally available. Customers and staff state a need by voice or text, an AI agent maps it to a banking action such as blocking and reissuing a lost card or checking a payment, and it acts only within bank defined permissions, policies and approvals, with explicit customer confirmation for consequential requests and a record of context, decisions and outcomes. When a case needs human judgment, staff receive the relevant information and a summary of what the agent already did. Backbase says it is in production at more than 10 banks, including a large South African bank that has handled 22 million customer interactions with self service containment rising from 20% to 70%.

Bears on: Autonomy and Oversight ModelSource
Our read on this update →Tracked since Oct 2026
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Commercial

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