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Banking
Redefining Contact Center Operations for a Remote Workforce
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Remote work isn’t going away. According to Gallup, 51% of U.S. employees were working remotely as of May 2021, and 35% of them intended to stay remote in the future. Many contact centers had some type of work-from-home capability before the pandemic, but few had fully invested in a 100% remote environment. The rapid transition...
nCino
Extend nCino Capabilities to FSC and Use AI in Your Favor
Reading time: 5 minutes
When we think about building a strong CRM strategy, it’s really about the entire customer lifecycle. How you market to leads, how you acquire and onboard new customers, how you manage regulatory rules, and how you provide customer service. With Salesforce, you can manage all of those aspects in one place by combining the power...
nCino
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...
nCino
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
Improving Operational Efficiency in Banks with Financial Services Cloud
Reading time: 3 minutes
In today’s digital world, retail and commercial customers equally demand a frictionless lending experience. They need to be able to apply for loans and interact with lenders at any time from anywhere. Borrowers are increasingly comfortable choosing alternative financing providers that can approve loans at a speed their brick-and-mortar banks cannot match. To compete in...
Financial Services
Tableau CRM: Getting Started with Data Sets
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If there’s one thing I’ve learned during my time at Silverline, it’s that the Salesforce platform is only getting more and more complex. Understanding how to organize your development, data management, and adoption of the application is super important for the success of your organization. So, where to get started with such a complex platform?...
nCino
How Eastern Funding Built a Customer-Centric Experience with Salesforce FSC + nCino
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Eastern Funding, a subsidiary of Brookline Bank, offers big bank strength with small firm flexibility. For over 20 years, they have financed thousands of projects across diverse industries with an unwavering commitment to building rock-solid customer relationships. But as they grew to fund businesses in all 50 states, they knew they needed to continue to...
Financial Services
Transforming the Lending Experience with Salesforce
Reading time: 4 minutes
Historically, loan origination workflow was paper focused and labor intensive. Measuring the efficiency and quality of work was difficult to achieve. The height of piles or folders on desks helped you know whether or not your employees were overwhelmed or had capacity. It was seemingly impossible to understand where bottlenecks existed in the system and...
Financial Services
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...