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Your Best Case Can Still Stall After You Submit

You did everything the process asks. You talked to finance before the meeting. You walked the head of IT through […]

How AI Is Changing the Way Customers Discover Banks and Credit Unions

Executive Summary Steven Ramirez, CEO of Beyond the Arc, says the early stage of the customer journey now starts on […]

Digital is Where the Relationship Lives Now

A member walks into her local branch to sort out a mixed-up direct deposit. The teller pulls up her account, […]

Your Behavioral Intelligence Case Is Won Before the Budget Meeting

Leadership has handed you a growth target bigger than any you have carried and attached a condition to it. The […]

They Leave Well Before They Close the Account

Most retention reports tell a reassuring story. Members stay, deposits hold, accounts stay open, and churn comes in low again […]

Let the Strategy Pick the Technology

An executive came back from a conference convinced that interactive teller machines would soon replace the ATM and that the […]

Your Website Is the Busiest Branch Nobody Staffs

Every branch is staffed. The institution pays for people to be there all day, so anyone who comes in finds […]

Why Digital Leaders Must Be Storytellers

Executive Summary At TD Bank, digital logs 22 million logins a month, 1.2 billion a year. For Todd Purcell, SVP […]

The Technology Was Never the Hard Part

Days after the institution rolled out Zelle, a head teller stood at the counter and told a customer she would […]

The Expensive Way to Buy Growth

Every growth plan is a choice about how to pay for the growth. An institution needs more deposits or more […]

Whether You Are Redesigning Your Website or Not, It Should Prove It Works

Most of the people a bank or credit union serves now do their banking on its website. They open accounts […]

The Money Is Already in the Budget

Every line in your marketing budget ends at the same place. The email platform’s work ends when someone clicks through […]