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The Great Checking Account Migration: How Marketers Grab Growth in 2024
Millions of people moved to a new state or a new city during the post-pandemic residential boom. Now, bank marketers have a once-in-a-decade opportunity to serve the coming checking account migration.
Data-Driven, Partner-Powered: New Marketing Strategies Bolstering Bank Income
Marketing has long been a cost center for financial institutions. Now, as technology and data have vastly upgraded precision messaging, and partners absorb marketing costs, financial institutions are eliminating costs while generating long-term income streams.
Pay for Performance: The Tactic Saving Marketing Budgets in 2024
Consumers and businesses have hired the marketing team at your institution for a new role: The organization's best new sales team. And it should give marketing higher priority in banking's budget this year.
How Banks Are Fortifying their Data Against Unexpected Cyber Threats
How can banks and credit unions prepare today for a cyberattack tomorrow? This interview with Veeam consultant Rick Vanover provides the latest on data protection strategies.
How Data Can Defend Against Deposit Attrition
Banking executives know they can't delay in engaging flight-risk depositors. The problem has been knowing which depositors might leave. Here's how Lake Ridge Bank and others are getting ahead of attrition.
Four Rising Regulatory Expectations Bankers Should Anticipate
Banks and credit unions know regulators are calling for heavy scrutiny of interest rate and liquidity risks. But what does that look like? Here's what to expect.
Wondering Where to Invest in Banking Tech? Here Are Three Case Studies
Here's how one bank, one credit union and one fintech made tech upgrades that improved employee and customer experience.
How This Cohort of Banks Mastered Deposit Growth
A small cohort of banks and credit unions managed four consecutive quarters of deposit growth, even in a rate environment where rates rose by hundreds of basis points. Here’s an important technology upgrade the institutions had in common.
Better Branch ROI Requires Better Equipped Universal Bankers
As banks and credit unions modernize branches, they have an opportunity to reimagine the entire customer journey, and it hinges on universal bankers.
How Two Credit Unions Grew Loan Volume with ITM Teller Lines
Branches with ITM teller lines and a smaller footprint have their appeal in both cost savings and growth opportunities. But is your market is ready for it? Mutual 1st Federal Credit Union has found answers.
How to Downsize Branches Without Losing Prime Locations
Many financial institutions want to retain the physical presence of a branch, but no longer need all the square-footage of their current space. This leasing strategy let BMO solve both challenges.
Faster Access to Funds Could Reshape the Battle for Deposits
As the industry works toward real-time payments, technology is opening the door to a new opportunity: Faster funds availability for small businesses and consumers when they deposit checks.
How Two Financial Institutions Dusted Off E-Signature and Won Adoption
E-signature appeared in banking 20 years ago. What was supposed to be a simple tech purchase turned out to be not so. Here’s how two institutions left pen-on-paper signatures behind for good.
How to Turn Your Website into a Personalization Treasure Trove
What if your institution knew which depositors were eight times more likely to open CDs? Here's how Visions Federal Credit Union uses data from website visits to personalize marketing and triple conversions.
There’s a New Way to Fight the Fraud Butterfly Effect
A new, more destructive form of fraudulent activity has emerged: The Butterfly Effect. Here’s how banking data can provide protection for account holders, even when they unwittingly give crooks access to their account.
Leveraging Data to Transform Digital Banking into a Profit Center
Digital transformation often focuses on improving efficiency and the user experience. But don't overlook the opportunity to generate revenue.
Need Fee Income? Add New Services for Small and Midsize Businesses
Many financial institutions are overlooking a valuable source of noninterest income from their small and midsize business customers.
How Banks Can Avoid Losing Small-Business Loans to Fintechs
Fighting back against nonbanks like LendingClub and Funding Circle means adopting some of their digital tactics. But the benefits are many.
Take 3 Steps to Ensure Open-Banking Success Ahead of CFPB Rules
Open banking is coming soon. Here's what banks should do now to seize the opportunities it offers.
To Boost Loyalty, Help Business Owners Navigate Life Stages
There's a major growth opportunity for financial institutions that want to cement lifelong relationships with small and midsize businesses.
What Instant Payments Will Look Like in the Age of FedNow
Instant payments will improve the customer experience, which is one good reason for banks to integrate this service, especially for B2B.
Better Customer Engagement Is Essential to Help Banks Differentiate
New research explores customer engagement trends — among both bankers and consumers — and points to four ways to improve engagement.
