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Process Automation for Mid-Market Banks & Credit Unions

  • Streamline operations and drive efficiency
  • Mitigate compliance risks
  • Modernize your customers’ experience
  • Reduce fraud and operational errors
  • Integrate workflows across legacy system

Working with R-Path has been a game-changer for our automation needs. Their expertise in creating and optimizing RPA bots has significantly improved our efficiency and streamlined our processes. We highly recommend them for anyone looking to enhance their workflows with reliable automation solutions.

Andrew Braun

Director of Engineering | Grasshopper Bank

Andrew Braun
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The Automation Opportunity for Mid-Market Banks & Credit Unions 

Mid-market banks and credit unions must streamline operations, meet rising compliance demands, and deliver modern customer experiences—all with limited resources. 

  • Outdated manual processes are driving up costs and burning out staff
  • Regulatory burdens are growing faster than compliance teams can manage
  • Fintechs and big banks are setting a new bar for digital experiences
  • Workforce constraints make it difficult to scale without adding headcount
  • Economic conditions require institutions to do more with less

 

Process automation unlocks the speed, accuracy, and flexibility required to thrive in today’s environment. 

 

 

Credit Unions
Retail Banks
Commercial Banks

Credit unions face many of the same regulatory and operational challenges as larger banks—but with fewer resources. Automation helps them stay compliant, streamline member onboarding, and provide round-the-clock digital service, all while preserving the personalized experience members expect. 

Retail banks must reconcile legacy systems and paper-based workflows with modern customer expectations. Automation accelerates everything from account opening to fraud detection, helping retail banks deliver faster service, reduce costs, and boost customer satisfaction. 

Commercial lenders are bogged down by complex underwriting and portfolio management processes. Process automation reduces the burden of document handling, financial spreading, and covenant tracking—allowing commercial banks to serve more business clients without growing their teams. 
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Top 10 Automation Use Cases for Mid-Market Banks & Credit Unions 

The following are ten of the most impactful process automation use cases across retail and commercial banking operations. 

  1. Customer Onboarding & KYC Compliance – Automation accelerates account opening by gathering and verifying customer data across systems, ensuring compliance while improving customer experience. 
  2. Loan Origination and Processing – Bots streamline loan processing by automating data entry, document checks, and status updates, reducing errors and speeding approvals. 
  3. Commercial Lending & Underwriting – Automation simplifies business loan underwriting by collecting and analyzing financials, enabling faster credit decisions and higher loan throughput. 
  4. Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Fraud Detection – Process automation enhances AML efforts by detecting suspicious activity, triaging alerts, and executing preventive actions in real time. 
  5. Regulatory Reporting and Audit Preparation – Bots collect, validate, and format data for regulatory reports, reducing manual effort, increasing accuracy, and ensuring audit-readiness. 
  6. Account Reconciliation & Exception Handling – Automation matches transactions across systems and flags exceptions, enabling faster, more accurate reconciliations with minimal human input. 
  7. Debt Collections & Loan Recovery – Bots monitor delinquent accounts and trigger compliant outreach workflows, improving recovery rates while easing strain on collections teams. 
  8. Customer Service and Support (Chatbots & AI Assistants) – AI-powered chatbots resolve routine inquiries instantly, boosting customer satisfaction and freeing staff for more complex support tasks. 
  9. Payments and Wire Processing – Automation validates, processes, and logs payments and wire transfers, accelerating execution and reducing risk of error. 
  10. Credit Card and ATM Operations – Bots handle routine card and ATM tasks like activations, PIN resets, and dispute claims, enhancing reliability and reducing operational burden. 

 

Speak with an R-Path expert to explore your automation opportunity

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How R-Path Is Helping Banks and Credit Unions Seize Their Automation Opportunity

When you partner with R-Path you get a fully-managed, turnkey automation program that systematically identifies, prioritizes, and executes on high-impact automation opportunities within your institution. It’s the fastest, easiest, and most affordable way to bring automation to your bank or credit union and it’s offered on a simple subscription basis with no term commitment. 

  • AUTOMATION PLANNING

    AUTOMATION PLANNING

    Prior to engaging, and at no cost to you, R-Path will lead you through an Automation Opportunity Assessment that defines the size and nature of your automation opportunity. Based on this assessment, we establish your automation plan and project roadmap.

  • IMPLEMENTATION

    TECHNOLOGY IMPLEMENTATION

    During the Automation Planning process, we'll help you select the automation platform that best aligns with your company's automation strategy and budget. Once engaged, we'll manage the process of procuring and implementing your tech.

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    PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

    Your R-Path automation team is led by a Sr. Program Manager focused exclusively on delivering the results you desire. They will identify & prioritize automation opportunities, roadmap & manage projects, define standards, manage personnel, and communicate with stakeholders.

  • DEVELOPMENT

    AUTOMATION DEVELOPMENT

    Once you've approved an automation project for development, your R-Path Team swings into action. We begin by clarifying, optimizing, and documenting the process. We then design, develop, and test. With your approval, we deploy the automations.

  • MAINTENANCE

    AUTOMATION MAINTENANCE

    Before deploying automation, we develop a comprehensive plan for monitoring and maintaining performance over time. Once deployed, we use a proprietary system called Siren to proactively monitor its performance. If we detect an issue, we spring into action to prevent or minimize downtime.

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Putting R-Path to Work for Your Business 

If you’re interested in partnering with R-Path to implement a fully managed automation program, here’s how it works: 

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  1. Opportunity Assessment (no cost) – Identify 10–20 candidate automations, estimate financial impact, recommend platform. 
  2. Proof of Concept (no cost) – We build a live automation to prove feasibility and business value. 
  3. Subscription Kick‑Off – Finalize  terms, onboard your R‑Path team, and activate licenses. 
  4. Build & Deploy – New automations roll into production while prior ones accrue measurable savings. 
  5. Maintain & Optimize – When ROI‑positive pipeline is exhausted, we transition to a low‑cost “Maintenance‑Only” mode—typically ~ 90 % cost reduction. 
 
Schedule a call to see if your organization qualifies for a  free Automation Opportunity Assessment. 
 
  
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Why Banks and Credit Unions Choose R-Path

  • Speed to Value – Employing an exceptionally experienced and cohesive US-based team, R-Path delivers real business value in a fraction of the time required by competing solutions. 
  • Exceptional Quality – Enterprise‑grade standards, rigorous QA, and veteran developers turn every automation into mission‑ready infrastructure you can trust. 
  • Partner Experience – Guided by our mantra “Be a good partner,” we’re responsive, generous, and candid—no black‑box consulting here. 
  • Unmatched Value – When you add up faster ROI, lower license spend, and maintenance down‑shift, no alternative delivers more automation per dollar.
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