Briefs Archive
Best of the Web: Visual Trends | À-La-Carte Fees | Fate of Branches
A free webinar on visual trends in banking... Banks are getting creative with fee models... Pundits debate the fate of branch networks... 36 stories total!
Best Of The Web: Big Data | Gamification | Social Media Credit Scores
Big data lead some banks to ‘new silk roads,’ but most sit idle on a goldmine of data. Maybe they should toy around with gamification instead... 39 stories total!
Financial Marketing News: GoBank, USAA’s Mobile Account Opening
What's making the news this week? GoBank's name-your-fee checking account has everyone abuzz. And USAA is using mobile cameras to open new accounts. These stories, and 28 others.
Best of the Web: OWS Controversy, Deposits Soar, Mobile Forecasts
Bank lands in hot water over Occupy imagery in ads… Deposits outpace loans by $2 trillion… The future of mobile banking… 35 more headlines.
Best Of The Web: USAA | Top 5 Trends | Cafe Crazy | iPhone Apps
What makes USAA unique… Top 5 retail banking + tech trends… Capital One goes crazy with new cafés… Top 20 financial apps… Forty headlines in total!
Best of The Web: Bank 3.0 | Mass Affluent | Superstorm Sandy
Banks struggle with Bank 2.0 as version 3.0 rolls out... Mass affluent an elusive target for banks... Banks use social during Superstorm Sandy... 46 headlines total!
In Brief: Pie Promo | Branch Debate | Social Media Strategies
Northwestern Bank offers pies for accounts and loans... Industry leaders discuss the fate of branches... Case studies and social strategies in banking... 35 headlines total!
In Brief: BofA’s Radical Patents, PFM Is Dead, Gag Order
BofA patents give glimpse at mobile video's radical future… PFM faces challenges… BofA makes social media silence condition on couple's refi… Plus 32 more headlines.
In Brief: Underbanked, Inertia, Video Tellers, The B-Word
Ranks of the underbanked grow following the financial crisis... A journalist says inertia keeps her with BofA... Only video tellers for one CU... VSECU b-word debate rages. 28 more headlines.
In Brief: Gen-Y, Banking UX, Twitter Engagement
Gen-Y consumers are cheap, and they want bank branches... Building the retail banking user experience... Twitter strategies... 35 headlines from around the world in financial marketing.
In Brief: Goodbye ING, BofA Trash, Gen-Y
The ING Direct brand may soon be toast... Trash dumped at BofA's doorstep... Gen-Y's financial lives dissected... Plus 41 more headlines.
In Brief: Channel Challenges, Big Data Dilemma
A series of articles explores everything from branches to Facebook, and financial marketers wrestle with the value of big data in social media. 36 headlines total.
In Brief: Big Data, Branch Strategies, Social Banking
Banks know everything about customers, but swiftly forget all of it… What's the future of branches… Is social banking on the way? Plus 29 more headlines.
In Brief: Concept Branches | Facebook Ads | Twitter Citi
An article and a webinar on branch design trends... Should banks ‘Like’ Facebook ads... An interview and case study on Citi's Twitter strategy... Plus 26 more stories!
In Brief: Kersplat! Eeek! Perks Slashed!
CD rates finally smack the sidewalk... Chase retreats from the student loan market... SunTrust slashed perks on checking accounts... Plus 35 more headlines!
In Brief: Savings Lottery » To Branch, Or Not To Branch?
Another state legalizes prize-based bank accounts… Raddon Financial Group tackles the prickly subject of branching… Plus 30 more headlines in financial marketing.
In Brief: Postage Hike | Shrinking Branches | Social Ads
Direct mail to get more expensive, complicating ROI… Downsizing the brick-and-mortar channel… Why stress over ‘Likes’ when you can run ads? Plus 36 more headlines.
In Brief: CUs Hit $1 Trillion | Life At BofA | Innovation Loop
Credit union assets top $1 trillion in the US... An insider's satirical look at life inside Bank of America... Citi and Barclays innovate. Plus 33 more headlines.
In Brief: Too Crooked To Fail | $4 Gas | Goodbye Pennies!
Is BofA too crooked to fail? ...At $4 per gallon, it's time to give fuel away in your promos …Canada cuts pennies from circulation. Plus 37 more headlines!
In Brief: Bank Transfer Day | Chasing Unicorns | Couch Banking
Another study examines the impact of Bank Transfer Day… Searching for the ROI of social media is like chasing unicorns… Banking from home on iPads… and 39 other headlines.
