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Poonawalla Fincorp expands AI-first Transformation with Five New Deployments in HR, Governance, and Compliance

Posted On : 2025-10-27 08:40:05( TIMEZONE : IST )

Poonawalla Fincorp Limited (PFL), a Cyrus Poonawalla Group-promoted NBFC focused on Consumer and MSME lending, today announced the deployment of five new AI-powered solutions as part of its risk-first and enterprise-wide digital transformation journey. These include an Early Warning System (EWS) for workforce risk, a Travel Bot for operational mobility, RegIntel for compliance intelligence, an ER Governance Tool for employee relations, and AI-driven Suspicious Transaction Reporting (STR) for financial crime compliance.

Together, these solutions embed AI into PFL's core operations, going beyond automation to create intelligent, scalable, and compliance-ready systems. By shifting from reactive to predictive and prescriptive approaches, PFL is building a digitally confident, governance-driven, and future-ready NBFC.

Arvind Kapil, Managing Director & CEO of Poonawalla Fincorp, said: "We at Poonawalla Fincorp, now with 45 AI projects on the table are reimagining how our organisation works by infusing intelligence into every part of our ecosystem. Be it providing real-time regulatory clarity, or improving the accuracy of compliance reporting, predicting and preventing attrition, strengthening employee governance or simplifying travel operations - each of these AI-led solutions is designed to make us more agile, transparent, and future-ready. The depth of AI projects across different and diverse departments within the company, we believe, makes it an industry first approach, with couple of them being game changers. This also marks an important step in our journey to build a trusted, technology-driven enterprise that empowers our people and elevates how we work."

1. Suspicious Transaction Reporting (STR): An AI/ML-powered system to strengthen Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance. Traditional monitoring often generates a high number of false alerts, flagging normal transactions as suspicious. The new system reduces these false positives and focuses on genuinely risky behavior. This improves efficiency for compliance teams, enhances reporting accuracy, and ensures submissions to regulators are timely and reliable.

2. RegIntel: An AI-powered compliance assistant that autonomously addresses employee queries on internal policies and regulatory frameworks. With contextual policy mapping, adaptive logic that evolves with new regulations, and instant summaries, RegIntel fosters governance, reduces dependency on manual interpretation, and delivers real-time compliance insights.

3. Early Warning System (EWS): An AI/ML-powered system that uses stacked ensemble models, combining deep neural networks and tree-based algorithms, to predict attrition risk across the active workforce. By identifying not just who is at risk but also why, EWS enables HR to move from reactive exits to prescriptive, data-driven retention strategies aligned with organisational goals and compliance standards.

4. Employee Relation (ER) Governance Tool: A database-backed agentic AI system designed to manage employee relations (ER) cases. It leverages past case data, internal policies, and contextual nuances to provide AI-based recommendations, predictive escalation paths, and auditready documentation, supporting fair, transparent, and consistent ER governance.

5. Travel Bot: An AI-enabled travel orchestration system integrated with Microsoft Teams, designed to automate and streamline cab bookings and travel communications. It reduces manual intervention, maintains a centralized travel database, and ensures policy-aligned transparency with features such as real-time booking triggers and audit-ready documentation.

At PFL, AI is continuing to emerge as a strategic differentiator and game-changer across core areas, right from risk calibration and fraud detection to marketing, compliance, HR, governance, audit, and underwriting quality assessment. The company is actively scaling its AI efforts with 45 projects, of which 16 have been successfully completed. PFL continues to deepen its commitment to its AI-first approach, driving intelligent automation, accuracy, and future-ready innovation.

Shares of Poonawalla Fincorp Limited was last trading in BSE at Rs. 484.85 as compared to the previous close of Rs. 488.55. The total number of shares traded during the day was 48299 in over 1664 trades.

The stock hit an intraday high of Rs. 491.55 and intraday low of 483.00. The net turnover during the day was Rs. 23521440.00.