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Why diversity abounds in new branch designs

Celent Banking

It is the rich diversity in approaches taken to the important task of improving branch channel efficiency and effectiveness that makes this topic so fascinating. Retail financial institutions need to possess a number of core competencies to remain successful. There is no single blueprint. Among them is omnichannel delivery.

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When Will Retail Banking Return to ‘Normal’? Should It?

ABA Community Banking

The time is right to leverage the experiences of the past few months to make significant and sustainable changes to the branch environment. The post When Will Retail Banking Return to ‘Normal’? appeared first on ABA Banking Journal.

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Making Banking Easier with Intelligent Branch

Cisco

Whether a retail bank, wealth management firm, credit union, or insurance company with a banking segment, the financial industry is facing dramatic changes on how best to accommodate customers, and what is the appropriate mix between brick-and-mortar bank branches, remote work, self-service ATMs, and digital platforms.

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Steal This 5-Step Banking Innovation Playbook from Gentle Monster

South State Correspondent

One of the best tips we ever received was to target retiring executive managers from companies and trade organizations and offer them part-time work to advise and introduce the bank to their network. Each store is closer to an art exhibit than a retail outlet. Gentle Monster employs 100 people just focused on store design.

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Citi’s Geolocation Move

Celent Banking

But, that’s just one of a growing number of potentially very useful applications for beacons in retail financial services. Geolocation, in particular, is under-utilized by retailers (especially banks) and remains largely experimental. How far ahead of the industry is Citi? Here’s one data point.

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Passwords Suck – Bring on Biometrics!

Celent Banking

I have so many to manage, I use Trend Micro’s Password Manager to ease the pain. In a June 21 New York Times article , Tom Shaw, vice president for enterprise financial crimes management at USAA was quoted as saying, “We believe the password is dying. ” Passwords do suck.

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4 Gonzo Takeaways from BAI Retail Delivery ’15: Viva Las Vegas?

Gonzobanker

BAI Retail Delivery was at the Venetian in Vegas this year, sharing conference space with a travel convention called IMEX, which made things interesting in between sessions. This person needs rescued and whoever designed that expensive use of space?” Remember that BAI Retail Delivery initially started out as an ATM conference.