Personal Finance Management
From data to guidance to trust
Personal Finance Management is no longer about showing customers what they spent. It's about empowering them to make better financial decisions, and giving your bank a platform to collaborate with them on what matters most.
PFM is evolving, and your bank should be leading it
Traditional PFM focused on the past, categorising expenses and showing spending history. Useful, perhaps, but far removed from how a real financial advisor would work with a customer. Banks invested millions in these features and saw 5-15% engagement. Customers tried it once and never came back.
Subaio was founded to close this gap. We believe PFM should mirror the advisory relationship, understanding where money goes, anticipating what comes next, and guiding customers toward decisions that strengthen their financial position. Done right, this transforms personal finance from a backwards-looking tool into a forward-looking guide that collaborates with real people on real aspirations.
The progression is clear: from Management to Engagement to Collaboration. Banks that make this shift don't just improve a feature. They redefine their role in customers' daily lives.
The foundation
Personal Finance Management
Data and analysis: categorisation, spending overviews, budgets. Customers interpret the information and decide how to act. Reactive by nature.
The catalyst
Personal Finance Engagement
Timely, contextual recommendations that anticipate customer needs. The platform translates complex data into clear actions, nudging customers toward better outcomes.
The destination
Personal Finance Collaboration
An always-on, intelligent financial companion. Continuous dialogue balancing short-term challenges with long-term goals. The digital equivalent of a trusted advisor, accessible, unbiased, and aligned with the customer's interests.
Built on data you can trust
Without deep, accurate, and flexible data, no PFM solution can create lasting trust. Too many market solutions settle for 60-80% accuracy. That may sound acceptable, but it creates a fragile foundation. If the numbers can't be trusted, the insights won't be either, and customers quickly lose confidence.
Subaio is a data company first and foremost. Our guiding principle is simple: 100% right. While no system achieves perfection through automation alone, we've built additional safeguards, crowdsourcing, continuous monitoring, manual reviews, and strong governance processes, to get as close as possible.
This obsession with data quality isn't academic. It's what makes the difference between a PFM that customers try once and forget, and one that becomes a daily companion they rely on. Every insight, forecast, and recommendation is only as good as the data underneath it.
Why data quality matters
- Categorisation that customers recognise and trust immediately
- Merchant names and logos that look right, not cryptic transaction codes
- Recurring payments detected accurately across all payment types
- Forecasts and insights grounded in verified, consistent data
- Same numbers across PFM, credit checks, and advisory tools
Continuously improving
Data quality isn't a one-time achievement. Our enrichment pipeline is continuously refined through customer feedback, crowdsourcing, market monitoring, and governance reviews, so accuracy improves with every transaction processed.
A strategic growth engine for your bank
PFM is often viewed as a cost centre, a checkbox feature that banks feel they need to offer. Subaio sees it differently. When PFM is done right, it becomes the digital front door to your entire ecosystem. It empowers customers in their financial lives while simultaneously guiding them toward the right products and services.
The impact is measurable. Banks using Subaio's platform see sustained engagement rates of 70%, compared to the industry standard of 5-15%. That engagement translates directly into stronger retention, deeper primary bank relationships, and new cross-sell opportunities. Financial insights naturally connect to lending, savings, investment, and advisory offerings.
Data-driven engagement becomes the bridge between customer needs and your revenue streams. Every insight, every goal, every financial review is an opportunity to demonstrate value, and to connect customers with exactly the right product at exactly the right moment.
70%
Sustained engagement
Month-over-month
20x
Usage increase
vs. traditional PFM
+15
NPS improvement
Customer satisfaction
1.4x
Card primacy
Share of wallet
Strategic impact
- Engagement
More time in the app, more features used, stronger retention
- Cross-sell & monetisation
Financial insights connect seamlessly to lending, savings, and advisory
- Strategic data use
Turn raw data into actionable intelligence for both customer journeys and business decisions
Personal Finance Management products
Four interconnected products that address every pillar of the modern customer financial journey, from understanding where money goes, to planning ahead, to staying on track day by day.
Insights & Signals
88 structured insight types across 11 categories, delivering timely, personal, and actionable signals derived from transaction data. Each one earns its place through accuracy and relevance, not volume.
Aspirations & Goals
Help customers shape their financial future. A multi-layered goal framework built on behavioural economics, from broad life aspirations to concrete savings targets, with structured guidance toward achieving them.
Cashflow Forecasting
Give customers clarity on where their money comes from, where it goes, and how their balance will evolve. Forward-looking forecasts, safe-to-spend calculations, and proactive alerts before problems occur.
Subscription Management
Give customers full visibility and control over their recurring payments. Detect, display, cancel, and pause subscriptions across all payment types, with a curated product catalog backed by human verification.
Powered by Data Foundation
Every Personal Finance Management product is built on the same data foundation, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and trust across all customer touchpoints. These capabilities are also available as standalone products.
Transaction Enrichment
Transform raw transaction data into clear, contextualised information, merchant names, logos, categories, and patterns customers can actually understand.
Merchant Information
Cleaned names, logos, locations, contact details, and categorisation for thousands of merchants,making every transaction recognisable and trustworthy.
AI Integration
LLM-ready, enriched financial data that powers the next generation of AI banking experiences, from conversational assistants to proactive financial guidance.
One data truth, from app to branch
When a customer checks their spending in the app, then sits down with an advisor to discuss a mortgage, the numbers should match. The categories should match. The story about their financial life should be consistent. Too often, it isn't. Digital tools and branch systems run on different data, different logic, different assumptions.
Subaio eliminates this disconnect. Our Personal Finance Management products and our Credit & Risk Assessment solutions are built on the same data foundation, the same transaction enrichment, the same categorisation, the same merchant identification. What your customer sees in their PFM is exactly what your credit team sees in their assessment tools.
This consistency builds trust. Customers feel understood, not interrogated, when their bank already knows what they know. And advisors can have more productive conversations because the data speaks the same language across every touchpoint.
Why consistency matters
- Same categories in the app and in credit assessments
- Recurring payments identified once, recognised everywhere
- Income and expense analysis aligned across customer-facing and internal tools
- Branch advisors see the same financial picture the customer does
Risk Decisioning
Credit & Risk Assessment
Explore how the same data foundation powers creditworthiness assessments, income verification, and affordability checks, with full consistency across your digital and advisory channels.
Deploy your way
Subaio is designed to fit seamlessly into your existing ecosystem. All platform layers are exposed through a comprehensive Partner API, giving you full flexibility to build directly on top of the data and logic, or use our ready-made managed journeys and UI components.
The modular architecture means you don't have to commit to everything at once. Start with the capabilities that deliver the most immediate value, subscription management, transaction enrichment, or cashflow forecasting, and expand as you learn what resonates with your customers.
And because the platform is continuously expanding, new enrichment methods, new insight types, new data sources, your investment grows in value over time. Subaio ensures you always have access to state-of-the-art capabilities without reworking the foundation.
Full API access
Build your own experiences with our data, models, and logic. Every capability available through well-documented APIs.
Managed user journeys
Ready-to-deploy, white-label experiences designed and maintained by Subaio. Fast time-to-market with minimal customisation needed.
Frontend SDK
Embeddable components for app and web. Customise to your brand, embed in context, and go live fast.
Hybrid approach
Mix and match. Use managed journeys for speed where it matters, and API access for full control where you need it.
Continuously evolving
New enrichment methods, insight types, and data sources are added continuously. Your platform stays at the cutting edge without reworking the foundation.
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