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Case Study: Banking Multimodal RAG

Walk a real bank build end-to-end — Azure AI Search + Vision + GPT-4o, document cracking, hybrid retrieval, and an MRM submission that actually passes.

65 min·9 chapters·Technical practitioner · Director · Manager·Free

Last updated: 2026-05-19

What you'll learn

By the end of this course you'll be able to:

  • Why pure text-RAG fails on financial documents — concretely, with examples
  • A Stack Fit Assessment for Azure AI Search, Azure AI Vision, and GPT-4o
  • Document cracking across text, tables, and charts in real annual reports
  • Indexing and hybrid retrieval strategies at production scale
  • An evaluation harness that lets the model risk team sleep at night
  • How an MRM submission and regulator pre-check actually read

Who this is for

Technical leaders, ML engineers, and product managers learning by walking through a real bank multimodal RAG build. Especially valuable for teams who have shipped a text-only RAG and run head-first into the realities of charts, tables, scanned annexures, and regulator pre-checks — RBI in India, SAMA in the Gulf — and need to see a production-grade build cohere end-to-end on the Microsoft stack.

Prerequisites

  • · ai-in-financial-services
  • · rag-architectures-foundations

Curriculum

9 chapters · 2 hands-on exercises · capstone challenge

Each chapter ends with the learning objectives ticked off. Quizzes are auto-graded with feedback; exercises are open-ended and produce artifacts you can take to your team.

1

1. The banking use case — why pure text-RAG fails on financial documents

7 min
  • Walk through the failure modes pure text-RAG hits on annual reports and disclosures
  • Define the success criteria the bank actually negotiated with the business
2

2. Stack Fit Assessment — Azure AI Search, Vision, GPT-4o

8 minQUIZ
  • Map each capability to a concrete part of the retrieval and generation pipeline
  • Justify hybrid search (vector + keyword + semantic ranker) for this workload
3

3. Document cracking — text, tables, and charts

8 minEXERCISE
  • Crack scanned PDFs, embedded tables, and chart imagery into retrieval-ready chunks
  • Preserve table semantics so the model can reason over rows and columns
4

4. Indexing strategy

7 minEXERCISE
  • Design index schemas that carry chunk type, page, and source-document provenance
  • Pick embedding models and chunk sizes that hold up across financial document classes
5

5. Hybrid search at production scale

8 minQUIZ
  • Tune hybrid search and semantic ranker for financial vocabulary
  • Build re-ranking and citation surfacing the front-end can render trustworthy
6

6. Evaluation harness

7 min
  • Design a labelled eval set across retrieval, grounding, and answer accuracy
  • Wire continuous evaluation into the CI pipeline so regressions surface early
7

7. Regulatory acceptance — RBI and SAMA pre-checks

7 min
  • Map the build to RBI and SAMA expectations on explainability and auditability
  • Anticipate the 5 questions regional regulators consistently ask about RAG
8

8. MRM submission

7 minQUIZ
  • Structure a Model Risk Management submission that mirrors Basel-aligned expectations
  • Document model lineage, eval results, and human-in-loop controls in a defensible pack

Capstone: Capstone: Adapt the build to your bank

6 min
  • Translate the reference architecture to your bank’s document set and regulator
  • Draft the first 30 days of your own multimodal RAG build plan

Capstone deliverable: Every learner who completes this course produces «Your 30-Day Multimodal RAG Build Plan» — a tangible artifact you take back to your organization.

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References & sources

Built on cited sources — not vibes.

Every course is researched fresh against vendor documentation, regulatory sources, and peer-reviewed work. Sources used in this course:

Azure AI Search Documentation

Microsoft Learn · Source link

Azure AI Vision Documentation

Microsoft Learn · Source link

RBI — Working Group Report on Digital Lending

Reserve Bank of India · Source link

SAMA — Cybersecurity Framework

Saudi Central Bank · Source link

BCBS — Principles for the Sound Management of Operational Risk

Basel Committee on Banking Supervision · Source link

Course details

Track

Applied (Case-led)

Level

Advanced

Audience

Technical practitioner, Director, Manager

Function

IT & Engineering, Finance & Accounting

Industry

Financial Services

Stack

Microsoft

Paired Gennoor Way phase

innovate, build

Format

video, reading, hands-on