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Banks want interactions, not just transactions

Personalization: Everyone knows it is a key factor in generating loyalty - but how do you get there? Retailers mostly get it right, especially in the online world. They are doing really well at tracking everything their customer does and personalising the service they offer in response. Banks, on the other hand, don't tend to be very good at pers...

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Brett King

Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven

Digital shift likely to impact bank financial results

I'm starting to hear of some very significant digital and multi-channel budgets being put in place by many of the leading retail banking brands in 2012. It's about time! While I won't name names or budgets, I've heard of mid-sized banks dedicating more than $50m to Internet, mobile and social-media this year, and large banks in the range of many hu...

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Jim Marous

Jim Marous Publisher at The Financial Brand

Bank Marketers Face Challenging Times With Great Opportunity

After two years of responding to government intervention into the revenue structure of financial organizations, bank marketers are now faced with heightened levels of competition, a more demanding customer base, an unfavorable rate environment and, in many cases, a shrinking budget. But potentially most challenging to financial institution CMOs I ...

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How can banks be social if they don't trust their staff?

Banks are starting to recognise the external forces that compel them to engage with their customers online. They are expressing the desire to embrace the opportunities that social media offers and many display an appreciation that they need to change their business structures to allow better collaboration, internally and externally. But many banks ...

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Alex Bray

Alex Bray AVP, Omni-Channel Acquisition & Servicing at Genpact

I'm here to make social media boring...

Over the last couple of months, I have presented to a lot of senior banking executives on the subject of social media. The parallels between these presentations have been fascinating. At all these presentations, I tend to be the last presenter of the day. I am usually all that’s between 10 tired delegates and their commute home. Nevertheless the fe...

/retail Online Banking

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An engaging New Commerce emerges

At a seminar that I attended recently, the discussion turned to, what else, but the new consumer and how she has changed. But the consumer has always been an evolving species, so what’s new? In my view, what differentiates this customer, who belongs to the most connected and socially engaged generation in the history of mankind, is her ability to...

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Jim Marous

Jim Marous Publisher at The Financial Brand

100 Years Later Bankers Still Have Difficulty Measuring Up

At the turn of the last century, store merchant John Wanamaker stated, "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half." Based on just released research from Ifbyphone, those may have been the 'good old days'. The report, 2011 State of Marketing Measurement Report found that, while 82% of CMOs ex...

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Jim Marous

Jim Marous Publisher at The Financial Brand

10 Commitments Bankers Need to Keep in 2012

2011 was year that many bankers, and especially bank marketers would love to forget. Not only was focus diverted by the need to respond to new regulations for the second consecutive year (this time it was the Durbin Amendment), but the image of our entire industry was challenged as foreclosures and bank failures continued to be in the news. We ...

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Alex Bray

Alex Bray AVP, Omni-Channel Acquisition & Servicing at Genpact

The Death of YourBank.com...?

Internet bank websites have fundamentally changed the way we manage our money - and entirely for the better. They have put customers in control - with 24 hour access, wherever and whenever you want. They have enabled banks to cut costs and deliver new and innovative services. So from all customers and bankers - thank you, internet bank websites! Y...

/retail Online Banking

Alex Bray

Alex Bray AVP, Omni-Channel Acquisition & Servicing at Genpact

Getting to Know You, Getting to Know All About You...

Is it wrong for your bank to use your social graph - the personal data you generate within your various social media outpourings - to make decisions about you? Much as in the famous song from ‘The King & I’, banks hope that once they’ve got to know you, you’ll get to like them too. But it doesn’t end there. Social graph data can enable banks d...

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