JPMorgan Leverages AI to Boost Sales and Client Management Amid Market Volatility

JPMorgan says AI helped boost sales, add clients in market turmoil

NEW YORK, May 5 (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase's (JPM.N), opens new tab artificial intelligence tools enabled it to boost sales to wealthy clients and manage scores of requests from worried customers even during April's market rout, the bank's CEO of asset and wealth management said. The largest U.S. lender, along with its peers has been ramping up its use of AI. Goldman Sachs is rolling out a generative AI assistant to its bankers, traders and asset managers, while Morgan Stanley developed a chatbot for its financial advisers with OpenAI. JPMorgan's AI tools have supercharged the speed at which its bankers could provide research and investment advice to wealthy clients last month at a time when the U.S. tariff announcements erased trillions of dollars from the stock market. "In the last few weeks, there have been several fluctuations in the market which are not in normal bite sizes, making it very complicated to think about all your clients and all the things required to do," Mary Erdoes said. The "powerful" AI tools helped advisors to quickly handle client requests by pulling data on their trading patterns and anticipating queries, she said. In the days surrounding U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff announcement last month, U.S. stock markets set a new record for single-day trading volume, and posted some of the sharpest intraday swings of the past 50 years. The volatility prompted individual investors to call their bankers seeking advice, Erdoes told Reuters. "When you have a tool that pre-populates all the data and the movement in real time, while also remembering clients' old investment preferences and helps in tailoring a plan for them quickly, it also allows advisors to do much more," she added. JPMorgan's so-called Coach AI tool used by private client advisers is quicker at locating content and research to drive conversations with clients. "Our advisors are finding the right information up to 95% faster--which means they spend less time searching and more time engaging in meaningful conversations with clients," said Mike Urciuoli, chief information officer at JPMorgan asset and wealth management. "It's a great example of how of AI isn't replacing human touch, it's enhancing it," Urciuoli added. ADDING CLIENTS The app will help advisers expand their client rosters by 50% in the next three-to-five years by enabling them to take on more clients, with AI handling some of the other research-related work. JPMorgan Asset & Wealth Management also saw a 20% year-over-year increase in gross sales between 2023-2024, with Gen AI-driven tools which has helped teams focus more effectively on high-impact client work, it said. "AI has also been handling a lot of anticipatory work, allowing advisors to be prepared for what could have otherwise been a very stressful moment with market movements," Erdoes said. JPMorgan had a technology budget of $17 billion last year. The bank already has about 450 potential cases for which it could use AI, and CEO Jamie Dimon expects those potential applications to surge to 1,000 by next year, he said earlier this year. Portfolio managers in asset management are also using the AI tools, Erdoes said. The bank's GenAI toolkit which is now deployed on the desktops of more than 200,000 employees, more than half of whom use it several times a day, the bank said. The bank employs almost 320,000 people. "We are trying to democratize AI and put it in the hands of more employees instead of a select group," Erdoes added. Harvard Business School recently published a case study on the potential of generative AI which included the tools being used by the 4,000 advisers serving JPMorgan's high-net-worth private bank clients to study its impact on the bank's business. The initiatives have already saved the bank nearly $1.5 billion through fraud prevention, personalization, trading, operational efficiencies and credit decisions, JPMorgan said. Reporting by Nupur Anand in New York, editing by Lananh Nguyen Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab Suggested Topics:Artificial Intelligence Nupur Anand Thomson Reuters Nupur Anand is a U.S. banking correspondent at Reuters in New York. She focuses on JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and regional banks. Anand covered banking and finance in India for more than a decade, chronicling the collapse of major lenders and turmoil at digital banks and cryptocurrencies. She has a degree in English literature from Delhi University and a postgraduate diploma in journalism from the Indian Institute of Journalism & New Media in Bangalore. Anand is also an award-winning fiction writer.

JPMorgan says AI helped boost sales, add clients in market turmoil

JPMorgan Chase's AI tools helped it boost sales to wealthy clients and efficiently manage customer concerns during April's market turmoil. The bank's Coach AI and GenAI platforms enhanced advisor productivity, cut research time by 95%, and contributed to a 20% YoY sales jump -- underscoring AI's growing role in wealth management.JPMorgan Chase's artificial intelligence tools enabled it to boost sales to wealthy clients and manage scores of requests from worried customers even during April's market rout, the bank's CEO of asset and wealth management said. The largest US lender, along with its peers has been ramping up its use of AI Goldman Sachs is rolling out a generative AI assistant to its bankers, traders and asset managers, while Morgan Stanley developed a chatbot for its financial advisers with OpenAI. JPMorgan's AI tools have supercharged the speed at which its bankers could provide research and investment advice to wealthy clients last month at a time when the US tariff announcements erased trillions of dollars from the stock market. "In the last few weeks, there have been several fluctuations in the market which are not in normal bite sizes, making it very complicated to think about all your clients and all the things required to do," Mary Erdoes said. The "powerful" AI tools helped advisors to quickly handle client requests by pulling data on their trading patterns and anticipating queries, she said. In the days surrounding U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff announcement last month, U.S. stock markets set a new record for single-day trading volume, and posted some of the sharpest intraday swings of the past 50 years. The volatility prompted individual investors to call their bankers seeking advice, Erdoes told Reuters. "When you have a tool that pre-populates all the data and the movement in real time, while also remembering clients' old investment preferences and helps in tailoring a plan for them quickly, it also allows advisors to do much more," she added. JPMorgan's so-called Coach AI tool used by private client advisers is quicker at locating content and research to drive conversations with clients. "Our advisors are finding the right information up to 95% faster--which means they spend less time searching and more time engaging in meaningful conversations with clients," said Mike Urciuoli, chief information officer at JPMorgan asset and wealth management. "It's a great example of how of AI isn't replacing human touch, it's enhancing it," Urciuoli added. Adding clients The app will help advisers expand their client rosters by 50% in the next three-to-five years by enabling them to take on more clients, with AI handling some of the other research-related work. JPMorgan Asset & Wealth Management also saw a 20% year-over-year increase in gross sales between 2023-2024, with Gen AI-driven tools which has helped teams focus more effectively on high-impact client work, it said. "AI has also been handling a lot of anticipatory work, allowing advisors to be prepared for what could have otherwise been a very stressful moment with market movements," Erdoes said. JPMorgan had a technology budget of $17 billion last year. The bank already has about 450 potential cases for which it could use AI, and CEO Jamie Dimon expects those potential applications to surge to 1,000 by next year, he said earlier this year. Portfolio managers in asset management are also using the AI tools, Erdoes said. The bank's GenAI toolkit which is now deployed on the desktops of more than 200,000 employees, more than half of whom use it several times a day, the bank said. The bank employs almost 320,000 people. "We are trying to democratize AI and put it in the hands of more employees instead of a select group," Erdoes added. Harvard Business School recently published a case study on the potential of generative AI which included the tools being used by the 4,000 advisers serving JPMorgan's high-net-worth private bank clients to study its impact on the bank's business. The initiatives have already saved the bank nearly $1.5 billion through fraud prevention, personalization, trading, operational efficiencies and credit decisions, JPMorgan said.