Posts Tagged ‘Financial Services’

Providing the ultimate customer satisfaction is the cornerstone of digital transformation. When a customer or potential customer searches your site, providing personalized content is a large factor in the quality of their engagement. In fact, it can make or break the customer experience – and your business. Forcing customers to wade through results and links […]

My last post highlighted the benefits of implementing these bots to enhance customer experience. This post explores chatbot implementation on the cloud and on-premises. A number of chatbots are designed to operate expressly in a cloud environment. There are leading-edge products that can still be installed on-premises. If an organization’s operating platforms are in-house, having […]

My last blog outlines how banks are implementing digital transformation strategies. In this blog, I examine how digital transformation increases success, and highlight where work needs to be done. The Need to Stay Competitive Despite the tremendous investments in digital transformation made by the big banks, medium-sized and regional banks have remained competitive. They surprisingly […]

Previously, I highlighted customer relationships and generating income with captive financing. This post analyzes value creation and how to get started with captive financing in your business. Value Creation With manufacturer-provided financing, transactions can be closed that might have been otherwise delayed while customers sought third-party funding. With superior knowledge of the equipment and its […]

Previously, I analyzed the current themes in banking according to executives. This blog outlines how banks are implementing digital transformation strategies. Digital transformation strategies for banks have, for years, centered attention and investment on frictionless service, personalization, customer journeys, user experience, lean transformation, organizational alignment, emerging business models, FinTech partnerships, and mobile. While this will […]

Previously I reviewed post-digital transformation in banking. This blog analyzes the current themes in banking according to executives. In recent years, five themes generally dominated (and rightly so) what bank executives paid attention to and invested in: 1. Generational Relevance The Millennial generation ushered in a different attitude regarding convenience, access, and responsiveness, and banks […]

While countless companies specialize in financing equipment acquisitions for customers, there is a growing trend for manufacturers to provide such financial services themselves. Of all manufacturers who offer a captive financing option to their customers, 67% expect equipment financing will increase as a percentage of their manufacturer sales. There are numerous reasons for the growth […]

This is the time of year when banks think about what strategies and investments to pursue in the coming year. And while retail and commercial banking is a complex, global industry driven by a combination of local-market macroeconomics, regulatory regimes, competitive forces, and customer behavior, the digital transformation strategies banks pursued for many years were […]

J.D. Power announced that three wealth management firms, Charles Schwab, Wells Fargo, and Edward Jones, received high customer satisfaction scores on their mobile apps relative to the rest of the brokerage industry. The success seems to come from each firm designing its app to fit the specific needs of its customer base – Charles Schwab’s […]

For all those who think traditional banks will not be able to compete with fintech companies, a federal judge’s ruling in October and the pulling of fintech start-up Robinhood’s bank charter application, which would have allowed it to become a federally insured bank and eliminated the need to partner with other banks, show that it’s […]

According to InvestmentNews, internal UBS studies show clients with assets between $2 million and $5 million behave more like clients in the lower segment than like high net worth clients. They use more online services rather than client advisers and don’t make use of sophisticated products and service offerings. Starting early next year, clients in […]

My last blog highlighted security audits and penetration testing. This final blog of the series discusses security data aggregation and artificial intelligence (AI) implementations in financial services. Should a breach occur, gathering log data from all critical security, network, and endpoint devices is key to a forensic investigation to determine how the firm’s defenses were […]