This morning Financial Brand announced the winners of their 2012 Best Banking Blog Awards. With more than 1,000 votes cast and a number of write-ins (including our blog) it is evident that there are a number of great blogging resources out there for the online community to digest! If you haven’t seen the announcement yet […]
Posts Tagged ‘Financial Services’
The Convergence of Technology and the “Social Banking” Experience
As a technology marketer, I thought it was appropriate that I begin my blogging experience with a post about the role of both social media and technology in the financial services and banking industry. As mentioned in a recent HBR blog post, many traditional forms of marketing have been tossed to the wayside. In response […]
Where’s Waldo? The Case for Enterprise Content Management
To coopt a phrase from a popular children’s book and game series, “Where’s Waldo?” This simple question along with the ever present who, what, when and why, are often answered with inconsistent or incomplete responses in Enterprise data. As companies have merged, acquired and grown, many times it’s virtually impossible to get an answer to […]
Mobile Payments and the Importance of Critical Mass
I hear a lot of bloggers and pundits speak of the increasingly important target market for mobile payments. After all, the media coverage and social conversation around the topic of mobile payments has reached a fever pitch, and some wonder whether it’s worth all the hype. For example, I was reading the article “What’s missing in […]
Mortgaging Customer Goodwill
Almost every week we see another story in the national press about how “unfeeling banks” are foreclosing on a homeowner over an 80 cent payment error, or foreclosing on a house the bank doesn’t even own. After several social media blogs, several thousand tweets and retweets (with fiery commentary) and various news networks report the […]
Preparing a Bank for the Monumental Changes Ahead
The banking industry is in the state of flux. We have distruptive technologies in terms of mobile banking and payments that are creating siesmic shifts in the way business is done. We need to harness big data that is growing at exponential rates. It’s hard to keep up. As any CIO knows, any organizational change, […]
The Bold New World of Mobile Payments
Imagine a stressed out holiday shopper rushing to make last minute purchases in a busy suburban shopping mall. As the shopper reaches the final checkout of the day to buy the newest gaming console for her son, the total displayed on the register is over her budget. Determined to buy the item, the shopper lifts […]
Top 10 Trends Shaping Big Data in Financial Services
One of our Business Intelligence colleagues wrote a great post recently on the top ten trends that are shaping the financial services industry’s use of big data. 1. Larger market data sets containing historical data over longer time periods and increased granularity are required to feed predictive models, forecasts and trading impacts throughout the day. […]
Managing Process is Key to Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform
This week I was discussing regulatory compliance issues with our Business Process Management (BPM) guru, Kevin Feldhus. We’ve led some really large and complex regulatory initiatives with banks, but never have we witnessed anything so encompassing as Dodd Frank. The scope of most bank regulatory projects typically focuses strictly on compliance. Any thoughts relating to […]
Banks Use Customer Big Data to Compete
In this competitive banking landscape, organizations face increased pressure to forecast business conditions that allow employees to react and drive value from data. As common sense would dictate, companies should evaluate performance based on increases to firm value. To generate these cash flows, many companies focus on the development of new products and services. However, […]
It’s Time: 3 Changes Needed in the Financial Services Industry
When I sat down to write the first blog for the financial services practice, I wasn’t quite sure where to start. Do I want to focus on some of the top technology trends like Mobile Banking or Real-Time Data availability? Maybe I should focus on some of the legal and regulatory concerns the industry is facing with the […]
Welcome to the Perficient Financial Services Blog!
Welcome to our financial services blog. We look forward to sharing information on the latest trends in financial services technology and strategy with you. I hope you find that we have pulled together a diverse team of writers with many years of experience in the banking, insurance, and capital markets industries. This experience has been […]