Best of the Web: Visual Trends | À-La-Carte Fees | Fate of Branches
Here’s what’s making the new this week around the world in bank and credit union marketing. Getty Images has a free webinar on visual trends in banking, banks are getting creative with fees in their pricing models, and many pundits debate the fate of branch networks… 36 stories total!
Free Webinar: “Visual Trends in Financial Services” from Getty Images
Weak: Loan-to-deposit ratios at the biggest US banks hits 5-year low
Movenbank: A great overview of this startup’s radical new online banking interface
Fees: You’ll never guess what banks have started charging for now…
À-La-Carte Checking: M&T Bank lets customers choose which fees they want to pay
Big Data: Great Western Bank is actually putting it to work
Q&A (Part 1): Overcoming hurdles in with ‘Master Data Management’ in banking
Q&A (Part 2): The payoffs of a ‘Master Data Management’ plan for banks
Credit Score Debacle: 40 million Americans have a mistake on their credit report
Rebuilding Trust: Union Bank taps Maya Angelou and other celebs for ad push
Business Checking: Why now?
PFM: Four common misjudgements about consumer demand
Cash Flow Monitor™: Wells Fargo beta-tests consumer cash-flow tool
Lil‘ Savers: Gothenburg State Bank promotes kids’ savings accounts
Now Hiring: TD Bank looking for a Senior Manager, Digital Advertising
Delivery Channels
Round Two? Are we looking at another big wave of branch closures?
Banking’s E-Crisis: Is the branch finally obsolete?
Mobile Banking: Will it make branches disappear?
The Missing Link: Retail banking and small business
Q&A: Banks overlooking big opportunities with their branch networks
Mobile Banking: How financial marketers can keep it from going bust
Shake, Rattle & Bank: Swedbank’s new mobile bank sparks 20 million ‘shakes’
HSBC: Are they setting up branch staff for a disaster?
Channel Preferences: In the UK, online and mobile trumps in-branch service
Social Media
Brave New World: How LinkedIn profiles and typing styles affect creditworthiness
Security Alert: The one thing banks should never do on Facebook and Twitter
USAA: The king of social media in banking
Case Study: Why Regions Bank excels in social media
#PayUp: AmEx lets users tweet to make purchases
Social Channels Struggling: Foursquare and Klout aren’t popular anymore
Credit Unions
Competing to Win: Six things credit unions need to keep up with the big banks
Mergers: Consolidation will continue to cull the credit union herd
Wham! ELGA Credit Union hits members with random acts of kindness
Three Tips: For better marketing of share draft accounts
R.I.P.? Is your credit union’s brand pushing you closer to the grave?
High School Branches: One credit union’s strategy to student-run facilities
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