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Banking
Peoples Bank Leverages Salesforce and nCino to Evolve Technology with Rapid Growth
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Peoples Bank started in 1910 in Northwest Indiana as a small community bank and has grown to an asset size of $2.1 billion. Headquartered in Munster, Indiana, Peoples Bank serves customers and communities across Northwest Indiana and Chicagoland with a wide range of consumer, business, and wealth management products. Lacking visibility across disparate systems Over...
Insurance
7 Salesforce Features Empowering Insurance and Underwriting
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In the fast-paced world of insurance, staying ahead of the curve is crucial. Salesforce, a leader in customer relationship management (CRM) platforms, has introduced several game-changing features in 2023 to enhance insurance and underwriting claims processes. These cutting-edge tools leverage Salesforce’s expertise in technology and customer-centric solutions to streamline operations, improve efficiency, and deliver exceptional...
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...
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...
Investment Banking
Accelerate Transformation with Salesforce for Investment Banking
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As consumer technology trains us to expect instant results, that same mentality carries over to the workplace. Everyone wants things, and they want them now, whether that’s an interactive dashboard about the portfolio of live deals and staffing assignments, a balance sheet from a portfolio company’s last valuation, or maybe just a cup of coffee...
Insurance
13 Insurance Highlights from Salesforce’s Winter ’23 Release
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Salesforce’s Winter ’23 release notes offer high-level descriptions of new features and enhancements. We’ve combed through the hundreds of pages to share highlights that are especially relevant for insurance industry users so you can review and quickly start benefiting from the new functionality. You can watch a video demo below, or continue reading to see...
Insurance
How Insurance Companies Leverage Salesforce for Agency Management
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The relationship between an insurance carrier and their agents is a critical one. A primary objective for a carrier is to make doing business as easy as possible for agents so they will either start or continue to do business with the carrier. This is especially the case with non-captive agents because they have a...
Banking
Implementing Salesforce Gives GreenState Credit Union Better Member Visibility
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GreenState Credit Union is a member-owned financial cooperative. Organized in 1938, GreenState has grown to be Iowa’s largest credit union and one of the top financial institutions in the United States for returning profits to members in the form of better rates and lower fees. GreenState serves over 370,000 members with 30 office locations. Membership...
Financial Services
Powering the Productivity and Growth of Canadian Capital Markets
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2021 proved to be a banner year for Canadian investments, with more than $11.8B CAD in venture capital invested and $20B CAD in private equity deployed. Canadian startups raised more than double their 2020 investment totals, and 2x the totals in 2019. Canadian economic development is positioned to see parabolic returns, but what does that...