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Banking
How Lenders Can Prepare for the New CFPB Rule
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has proposed a new rule designed to help small businesses gain access to credit by increasing transparency in the lending marketplace. The rule has yet to be finalized, but it will have vast implications on the lending industry if and when it does. The proposed CFPB requirements for lenders...
Financial Services
3 Key Skills Your Team Needs to Navigate the Future of Data
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You’ve seen how data storytelling helps companies deepen customer relationships and started to establish a data storytelling foundation for your organization, but how do you build a team that can effectively execute your data strategy? To make this kind of data storytelling happen, financial services firms need to take cues from their friends in technology...
Financial Services
Why Data Storytelling is Shaping the Future of Financial Services
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The way financial services firms have traditionally targeted and sold to their customers looks… pretty similar to today. After decades of email introductions, we have so much more technology available to help us target better, sell faster, and nurture business relationships. Our tools have experienced a quantum leap, but our strategies haven’t kept up. The...
Banking
Managing Relationships with nCino Pricing and Profitability
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When it comes to hitting profitability targets, it’s important to understand that relationship profitability is just as important as loan profitability. You might issue an unprofitable loan to keep a profitable relationship going. But in order to make the right decisions for each customer, you need a holistic view of an entire relationship. With nCino’s...
Banking
3 Strategies for Successful Banking Mergers and Acquisitions
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After dipping in 2020, U.S. bank mergers and acquisitions are picking up steam. Companies announced more than 132 deals this year as of August 2021 — compared to 103 for all of 2020 — and total deal value grew by over $10 billion. But a deal announcement is far from the finish line. After months,...
Financial Services
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...
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
Improving Operational Efficiency in Banks with Financial Services Cloud
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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...
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...