Data Mining Techniques and its Applications in Banking Sector

Data mining is becoming strategically important area for many business organizations including banking sector. It is a process of analyzing the data from various perspectives and summarizing it into valuable information. Data mining assists the banks to look for hidden pattern in a group and discover unknown relationship in the data. Today, customers have so many opinions with regard to where they can choose to do their business. Early data analysis techniques were oriented toward extracting quantitative and statistical data characteristics. These techniques facilitate useful data interpretations for the banking sector to avoid customer attrition. Customer retention is the most important factor to be analyzed in today’s competitive business environment. And also fraud is a significant problem in banking sector. Detecting and preventing fraud is difficult, because fraudsters develop new schemes all the time, and the schemes grow more and more sophisticated to elude easy detection. This paper analyzes the data mining techniques and its applications in banking sector like fraud prevention and detection, customer retention, marketing and risk management. Keywords— Banking Sector, Customer Retention, Credit Approval, Data mining, Fraud Detection,