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Customer Experience in Banking
Articles and trends affecting the customer experience in banking, including digital CX, customer engagement, personalization, chatbots, virtual assistants, and customer journey strategies.
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Attention to Branch Basics Can Stem Account Attrition
Dissatisfaction with banks could hike attrition in 2024. The solutions begin with simple behavioral adjustments in branches and call centers.
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Achieving Customer Centricity: Five Tips to Help You Get It Right
Overcoming organizational challenges to find alignment when building your enterprise-wide customer centric strategy.
What The 2015 Bank Customer Satisfaction Numbers Really Mean
JD Power released the first wave of its 2015 bank customer satisfaction research. My take: Big bank bashing is a thing of the past.
4 Steps to Brand Fame With Your Best Customers
What's your best strategy for growth? Make your financial institution invaluable to your best customers.
Delivering More Than DIY Banking
Consumers no longer want manage their finances themselves. Instead, they want the one-tap digital banking support from advisors 24/7.
Becoming a Smarter Bank
Smarter Bank by Ron Shevlin is a must-read book for all banking and credit union executives interested in the future of banking.
What’s The Better Metric: Customer Satisfaction Or Net Promoter Score?
Think you know which metric is best predictor of customer retention — satisfaction, NPS or and customer effort score? Here are the facts.
Measuring Customer Loyalty In The 21st Century
Banks and credit unions need a new metric to gauge customer/member loyalty. Learn why the Referral Performance Score is superior to today's measures.
Banking’s ‘911’ Moments of Truth
Financial emergencies are customer service opportunities to build trust, loyalty and share of wallet in banking.
3 Marketing Obstacles Thwarting Bank & Credit Union Growth
Here are three key questions that you should be asking to maintain brand awareness, increase acquisition efforts and improve retention.
Why Do People Switch Banks?
Research reveals why people switch, where they'd bank next, and whether consumers think all institutions are fundamentally the same.
Consumers Happier The Less They Think About Banking
A big global study compares the attitudes of banking consumers in 23 countries against those in the U.S. with surprising findings.
Why Are Americans Losing Trust in Banks (Again)?
Half of US adults say their trust in banks has declined over the past few years, although only 18% feel the same about credit unions.
Banking Customer Experience: From Penalties to Personalization
Consumer loyalty and trust with financial institutions can be built by leveraging big data for personalized value-added engagement.
Driving Complexity Out of The Mobile Banking Experience
Financial institutions need to follow the lead of retailers in building mobile banking applications, simplifying processes and design.
Bad Banking Habits Make For Lousy Bank Customers
Consumers who don’t manage their bank accounts are significantly more likely to have a messy split with their financial institution.
Customer Engagement in Banking: Something (Meaningful) Must Happen
Banks and credit unions struggle fostering customer engagement when they dwell too heavily on products. Fortunately there is another way.
Understanding The Financial Consumer Purchase Journey
Banks and credit unions need to understand the customer purchase journey to improve marketing effectiveness and the customer experience.
JD Power Ratings Shows Consumer Satisfaction With Banks Soaring
Satisfaction with banks hits an all-time high. But areas of weakness signal competitive vulnerability, especially among midsize banks.
The Real Barriers To a Cashless Society
Cash continues to be the preferred method of payment in the U.S. Why is this still the case in the digital age?
Behavioral Pricing – Watch Your Competitors, But Price for Consumers
Banks and credit unions pricing decisions should be based on competition as well as the principals of behavioral finance.
Minding The Gap in Social Banking Expectations
A study suggests financial institutions need to offer consumers more services on social media channels or suffer the consequences.