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Financial Services
Improving Your Salesforce Security & Compliance in the COVID-19 Era
We have been hard at work over the last six weeks helping our clients make the transition to remote work — and sharing all the ways we’ve built our company culture to empower remote operations. So many of our financial institutions have experienced mandatory shelter-in-place orders, branch closures, an exponential increase in SBA and PPP...
Financial Services
Lake City Bank Gains a Solution at Scale with FSC and nCino
Based in Indiana, Lake City Bank operates 50 branches and manages almost $5B in assets. As their business grew, they also outgrew the capabilities of their legacy operating system and used up every possible user-defined field available in their sales management solution. They had essentially maxed out the available capabilities of their solutions, leaving them little...
Financial Services
Customer Support in a Time of Crisis: Banking and Lending Solutions for SBA PPP
On Friday, April 4th, the Small Business Administration (SBA) opened up the $349B program that opens emergency loans from the government to small businesses across the country looking to participate in the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). Bank of America started accepting applications in the morning and received more than 85,000 applications in a single day....
Financial Services
Working from Home During a Pandemic: How Adviser Investments Maintains Business as Usual
Founded in 1994, Adviser Investments is an independent money management firm dedicated to serving individuals, trusts, institutions and foundations. It specializes in mutual funds, exchange-traded funds and undiscovered managers. It also offers individual bond strategies for high-net-worth investors. It currently manages over $5 billion for more than 3,500 clients nationwide. Over a decade of working...
Financial Services
Emerging Covid-19 Trends and Solutions for Banking & Lending
Many financial institutions have prided themselves on being local and interacting face-to-face with their customers. Whether it’s a global issue like COVID-19 or a local emergency, financial institutions must have a reliable and scalable crisis communication plan and engagement channels in place for their customers. This goes beyond minor adjustments to marketing messages and extends...
Financial Services
What It Means to Be a Data-Driven Bank… and How to Get There
Banks and other financial institutions continue making waves with digital transformations, but it’s important to keep people (both employees and consumers) at the forefront of changes with meaningful processes and technology. According to Andrew Beatty, SVP and GM of Next Generation Banking at FIS: “Innovation is now an essential that must underpin the bank’s value...
Financial Services
How Financial Institutions Can Best Support Customers in the Coronavirus Reality
As someone who travels frequently to meet clients and partners, I have been acutely aware of the impact Coronavirus is having on customer service center wait times. CNN recently reported that travel booking sites have been overwhelmed by call volume, and my airline app has a banner asking travelers not to call unless they have...
Financial Services
Collaboration Insights for Banks and Credit Unions Affected by Coronavirus
We are in an age of collaboration. We have more tools and more data available to us today than ever before. In my recent post, I highlighted how important it is for banks and credit unions to build a strong marketing automation foundation to collaborate around the customer. In light of so many work environments...
Financial Services
Marketing Automation Playbook for Banks and Credit Unions
Banks and credit unions are facing shifting customer preferences and realizing that experience matters. To be successful, banks and credit unions need to truly collaborate around the customer. True collaboration needs to be embraced to develop new engagement models that focus on human interaction with digital tools to solve problems and provide support for customers...
Financial Services
Leveraging nCino and Financial Services Cloud for Improved Customer Relations
nCino’s Bank Operating System is becoming more common within financial institutions. In fact, the latest figures from nCino show they have over 1,100 financial institution customers around the globe. The nCino platform is designed with bankers in mind — to offer a single end-to-end digitized process that is flexible and scalable. Most financial institutions have...