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Banking
Automate Identity Verification and Decisioning with Alloy and Salesforce
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Many financial services companies still rely on highly manual processes for onboarding, transaction monitoring, and credit underwriting. And while Salesforce automates much of the process, banks often need extra support to aggregate data to automate identity verification and risk decisioning. Silverline partners with Alloy, an identity verification and decisioning platform that integrates with the Salesforce...
Banking
How Financial Institutions Can Leverage Salesforce CRM Analytics
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A Salesforce survey of senior financial services executives asked how their advisors use customer data to inform their interactions. The report showed that 54% of executives reported data is used only to personalize customer interactions, and only 30% indicated that advisors used the data to inform their immediate decisions during interactions. This is a missed...
Financial Services
How to Embark on a Successful Journey with Salesforce and nCino
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Silverline’s Transcending CRM Podcast explores how the Salesforce ecosystem has impacted the careers of fellow Trailblazers and the businesses that have leveraged dynamic growth from the platform. A recent episode featured Julie Bonnema, VP, Digital Transformation Manager at Peoples Bank in Munster, Indiana. Headquartered in Munster, Indiana, Peoples Bank serves customers and communities across Northwest...
Banking
How Banks Can Benefit from Automated Treasury Management
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Treasury management is often the unsung hero of a financial institution. It does so much behind the scenes to make a bank run efficiently and effectively, yet it usually doesn’t get the same spotlight as other products and services targeted at businesses. But for all its importance in helping businesses manage money, and despite technological...
Banking
Driving More Value from Five Star Bank’s FSC Platform
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Financial Institutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: FISI) is an innovative financial holding company with approximately $5.8 billion in assets offering banking, insurance, and wealth management products and services through a network of subsidiaries. Its Five Star Bank subsidiary provides consumer and commercial banking and lending services to individuals, municipalities, and businesses through its Western and Central New...
Banking
4 Ways AI is Impacting the Banking and Lending Industry
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Remember when AI was just something we saw in sci-fi movies? Now you can’t go an hour without stumbling across some mention of the latest innovation in AI. From ChatGPT to AI photo editing for social media profiles to Google Bard, the AI space has become saturated with products and services. The AI evolution extends...
Banking
Growing Community Banks and Credit Unions with Salesforce
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The economy is in a state of constant fluctuations. The Federal Reserve is raising interest rates, which are driving inflation down. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is declining to 6% year-over-year, which may not seem like great news, but it peaked at 9.2% around June of last year. Add in that the wage growth rate...
Banking
Unlocking the Potential of a Bank’s Digital Front Door
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The key to a bank’s success may be rooted in its ability to deliver positive experiences to its customers. According to McKinsey, more than 70% of senior banking executives rank customer experience as a top priority over the coming years. Companies that effectively organize and manage customer experience can realize: 20% improvement in customer satisfaction...
Banking
Forging the Right Path for Customers in Salesforce Journey Builder
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When Gartner asked their clients about the most critical priority facing marketing leaders, the overwhelming answer was customer journey orchestration. Gartner defines the customer journey as “a tool that helps marketers understand the series of connected experiences that customers desire and need — whether that be completing a desired task or traversing the end-to-end journey...
Banking
3 Ways Banks Can Use Salesforce Marketing Cloud to Grow Deposits
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During the pandemic, banks were like the Oprah of loans. Instead of you get a car, it was you get a loan, you get a loan, you get a loan! Loans were going crazy because of the low rates. But now, post-pandemic, the economy has shifted, rates are on their way up, and loan growth...