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Financial Services
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
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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...
Banking
Salesforce Spring ‘21 Features: Interaction Summaries and Branch Management
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Salesforce launched Financial Services Cloud (FSC) in March of 2016, and since that day, they have continued to introduce new features and improvements with each release. The Spring ‘21 release is no exception and comes packed with exciting new features. Two of these features, Interaction Summaries and Branch Management, immediately add value for all FSC...
Financial Services
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...
Financial Services
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...
Financial Services
Optimized Salesforce Security Features for an Independent Banking Firm
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Any digital transformation project requires significant resources — time, budget, and internal subject matter expertise. When you invest in that kind of project, you need to deliver a platform that meets initial expectations and establishes a strong foundation for future expansion. This Midwest-based, independent, and locally-owned bank recently completed their initial Financial Services Cloud implementation...
Banking
Growing Deposits with Salesforce Tools
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I hear from clients all the time that their focus is growing their business, but when I ask how, they often say, “Acquiring new customers.” Acquisition can absolutely grow your business, no doubt about it. But if you’re not paying attention to those customers after they open an account, then you’re just refilling a leaky...