Banking
How to Prepare Your Bank to Cross $10 Billion in Assets
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As your bank grows, you need a team and technology that grows with you. Crossing the $10 billion threshold is a huge transition for a company — requiring investments in technology, skilled people, and new processes to accommodate changes in compliance, audit, and workflows. Salesforce is a key tool that can consolidate these workflows, give...
Banking
How Westfield Bank Aligns Sales and Marketing with Salesforce
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Westfield Bank provides relationship-based banking services for businesses and individuals across northeast Ohio and to independent insurance agencies across the country. Customers look to Westfield Bank for personal service, local decision-making, and the convenience of online banking anytime and anywhere. Since 2009, BauerFinancial has awarded Westfield Bank its 5-Star (Superior) rating, designating it as one...
Banking
The Top 5 Banking Skills of the Future
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Much has already been written on the ability of technology to transform the customer experience, introducing consumer lending portals and other tools for communication with lenders. But the truth is, consumer expectations are at an all-time high. You need to build a better lending experience or risk losing business. I’ve seen so many clients turn...
Banking
How 4 Banking and Lending Companies Use nCino with Salesforce Financial Services Cloud
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Banking and lending is a complicated business. Teams have to juggle multiple systems to manage customer service, loan origination, email marketing, and more. nCino brings all of your legacy processes and procedures together and makes internal processes simpler, faster, and more transparent, while also providing associates with the tools necessary to do their job. This...
Banking
Accelerating Complaint Management with Salesforce
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No one wants to record complaints. In a perfect world, every customer is completely satisfied and every system works exactly the way it’s supposed to. But that’s not reality. You can’t fully prevent complaints from happening, but you can be prepared to respond to them in a way that stops them from growing into bigger...
Financial Services
Tableau CRM: What Is It Good For?
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Financial services firms today have access to mountains of data, from loan origination information to balances and market information — and it all can live in Salesforce. But access is only the first step to making use of that data, and empowering your teams to make active decisions on key accounts. That’s where Tableau CRM...
Financial Services
Sales Cloud vs. Financial Services Cloud: What You Need to Know
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Salesforce has been the leading CRM solution for more than a decade. Your financial services firm might already be using Salesforce. And while Sales Cloud does have plenty of benefits for any organization, specific industry features of Financial Services Cloud make it a great choice for many firms. I hear from existing Salesforce Sales Cloud...
Banking
Bank Core Conversions, Digital Transformations: How to Implement Both at Once
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A banking or federal credit union core system is the primary back-office solution managing daily banking transactions and posting updates to accounts and other financial records. Core processing systems are also connected to complementary products and services that help clients and members view and manage aspects of their relationship. So you can imagine, a core...
Banking
Leveraging Salesforce for Community Bank Mergers and Acquisitions
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Bank mergers and acquisitions are a big undertaking for financial institutions. They take months to years of planning and coordination that requires significant resourcing dedication that could potentially slow down other transformation initiatives. There is an expected dramatic uptick in merger and acquisition activity in the American community banking sector, according to a recent report...
Banking
How Can the Banking Industry Improve Customer Service?
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Expectations for banking experiences have been shifting. And thanks to COVID-19, these expectations moved faster and more frenzied than anyone could have predicted. There’s a new baseline for the customer experience in banking. People expect more channels, more capabilities, and things to move at a faster pace. Banking customers and members want their financial institutions...