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14Sep2026

Levelling Up Client Onboarding: The Potential of Gamification in Wealth Management CRM 🎮📈

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An imaginative illustration showcasing the concept of gamification in wealth management CRM, blending traditional client onboarding elements with interactive and engaging gaming features.

Gamification can significantly boost the success of change projects by transforming the perception of changing conditions from a threat into an opportunity. This innovative approach has proven effective in various industries, such as automotive. Here, while drivers traditionally favoured sport mode, leading to high fuel consumption, post-2010, the eco-mode became gamified. Consequently, fuel-efficient driving became a personal challenge, engaging drivers in “free kilometres.

Although this comparison might seem a stretch, it highlights the potential of applying gamification to other complex processes. Specifically, the extensive collection of know-your-client data presents a challenge in wealth management. Users often struggle with completing numerous unorganised CRM data fields, which is crucial for exploratory data analysis. However, the free-text format of the client’s life story, essential for explaining the origin of funds, remains underutilised mainly, even with the aid of AI.

This begs the question: why isn’t the onboarding of wealthy clients gamified internally? Imagine a system where the client’s situation and structure could be graphically designed using drag-and-drop icons, guiding the user playfully through the financial institution’s policies and procedures while logically completing necessary datasets.

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A CRM system like this could instantly alert for extra documentation, including wealth source checks and autofill all needed account opening forms. A guided, gamified process could ease tensions between the front office and compliance teams, speeding up account approvals.

The potential of a gamified Swiss CRM system in wealth management is enormous. Does anyone know of a CRM system in Swiss wealth management that uses gamification to streamline client onboarding?

Source: LinkedIn

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