Financial Services

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Three Strategies Banks Can Learn from Specialty Retail

As a bank executive, one of the most urgent matters you face these days is how to update your business model to address the dramatically changing behavior of your customers. One important insight you already leverage is that you understand your customers well: modern banking customers expect service that is personalized, efficient, and immersive, and […]

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Five Things to Consider During a Financial Institution Transformation

For the past decade our firm has been helping financial institutions manage tremendous industry and cultural changes, helping them remain relevant to their customers and to find efficiencies required to sustain growth. Our projects often start with the move to smart banking and new channel strategies that have lead to a decline in branch number

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Banking on the Ultimate Millennial Experience

Millennials are entering an important life stage for banks as this segment of the population is starting to build wealth while driving potential sales growth in financial products and services. As Millennials provide banks with continued growth opportunities, banks must understand their needs and expectations in order to create a strong affinity with these future wealth generators.

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Six Ways to Overcome the Mobile Zombie Apocalypse in Bank Branches

Picture this: dozens, maybe hundreds of people walking aimlessly, their eyes glazed, looking down, oblivious to the environment that surrounds them. No, this isn’t the next zombie apocalypse blockbuster, it’s the scene common at any grocery store, shopping mall or bank branch — everyone staring at their mobile phone. This generation of consumers could be

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Retail Banking: Potential Transformations to Serve the Underbanked

With 20.0 percent (24.8 million) of U.S. households falling into the “underbanked” market segment of the retail banking (2013 FDIC report), almost 25 percent of bankers see this segment as a growth opportunity. To serve the underbanked, there are several transformation opportunities in retail banking trends around process, structure and message worth considering. Process The first lever for

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