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What Makes USAA Unique? These five things (for starters)
Mission Impossible: Why banks can’t compete on customer service
Top 5 Retail Banking Trends for 2013: Mobile dominates everything
Top 5 Financial Tech Trends: Mobile, prepaid, big data, payments, Bank 3.0
Merger Mania: 57% of banks plan to acquire another bank soon
Double Take! Thrivent bank completes rare conversion to credit union
Q&A Interview: Behind the scenes of TD Canada Trust’s cultural evolution
Build Your Own TV Spot: Union Bank gives people video production assets
Time of Our Lives: Excellent overview of UK consumers’ income, spending patterns
Big Data: How banks can use analytics to determine the “next best action”
Feedback Loop: Using ratings, rankings and reviews in bank marketing
Able Banking: A new bank lets consumers use their rewards for charity
Delivery Channels
Café Crazy: Capital One plans no fewer than 6 new “cafés” in Boston
No Warm Fuzzies: Mystery shop of CU branches reveals problems
iPhone Apps: Top 20 most-downloaded apps in personal finance
Video Banking: uGenius to launch online video solution
Bank Branches Are Dead! Long live the call center!
Self-Service Branch: Chase rolls out semi-staffed teller stations (like at the airport)
Bank at Work: Best practices for workplace banking programs
Going Cozy: Town & Country Bank takes on a homier, non-bank look
Products & Services
ING vs. Ally: The battle of the online checking accounts
Competition Recon: How checking accounts from online brokerages stack up
$210 Million: Capital One dealt fine for high-pressure pitches to customers
Fee Transparency: How BofA handles it superbly
PFM: How a small credit union hopes to fuel adoption of their new tool
myControl Banking: KeyBank’s balance forecasting mobile app + online dashboard
People Like U: Ubank rolls out a unique ethnography tool based on big data
Bill Pay Sweepstakes: Fifth Third’s promo pays $25,000 in cash prizes
Access 360: Fifth Third’s prepaid debit card mirrors Chase Liquid
Contactless Payments: Barclaycard builds iPhone game for Christmas campaign
Social Media
Strategy Q&A: Fifth Third’s VP of Social shares her story (read transcript)
Bad Advice: Five not-so-best practices for banks on Facebook
CafeGive: Financial marketers use third-party tool to build Facebook charity drives
Kaching! Commonwealth Bank rolls out Facebook version of its innovative mobile app
Facebook Woes: Aussie banks struggle with engagement, fan growth
Now Hiring: $1.2b Tulsa Teachers CU looking for a “social media guru”
Help! $23 million credit union seeks full-time social media specialist
Credit Unions
Young & Clueless: What Gen-Y doesn’t know about credit unions
Kodak Moment: CUs had better stay relevant, or face Kodak’s fate
Branch of the Future: The move towards a new, more affordable approach
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