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Banks Must Move Beyond Product Parity

If you’re tired of launching the same products as 47 other banks, this conversation offers a different path forward.

Published on March 2026 in Product Strategies

Featuring: Allison Netzer, Author of Think Like a Brand, Not a Bank

Your products aren’t differentiators anymore. In banking, digital is expected. Rates are aligned. Features are replicated. AI compares them instantly. When you lead with what you offer, you’re competing in a race where everyone looks the same.

Allison Netzer returns with Version 2 of Think Like a Brand, Not a Bank, bringing three years of implementation data from 75+ banks and credit unions that stopped competing on features.

We discuss what held up, what didn’t, and why customers decide emotionally first and justify rationally later. The institutions winning today treat brand as a strategic operating system, not a marketing exercise. They solve customer pain through counterintuitive thinking that breaks industry patterns.

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