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What #Banking Trend Will Have the Greatest Impact on Your Bank?

Jeff For Banks

The Fed has paused for nearly a year now, and it was our experience in 2006-07 that bank cost of funds continued to increase as the market closed the delta between what someone could earn in a money market mutual fund and a bank account. Consumer Demographics and Changing Customer Demands Remember all the pre-pandemic talk about millennials?

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For eCommerce Content, It’s Experiences Over Speed

PYMNTS

The company, which launched in 2001, has since about 2006 provided online and physical content — a collection that now includes a print catalog — as part of 1stdib’s effort to cement its position in the luxury marketplace. But the content operation is not a matter of sparking sales from a particular article, Freund told PYMNTS.

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Bankers and Strategic Bets. A Slow Embrace.

Jeff For Banks

How do we balance strategic direction, customer demand, and the futurist or wildly over-caffeinated millennial that tells us we have to implement every shiny new object or we'll die? They can be a strategic shift of your franchise, a new product line, or a new operating environment. Maybe those millennial futurists don't remember this.

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The Wonder Of Wegmans

PYMNTS

Consumers have been known to write open love letters to Wegmans imploring them to open up operations in their state or town. They were aware of what millennials wanted before the millennials even got there and that ‘shopping’ didn’t mean filling your cart with canned peas; it meant hanging out, learning about food and eating it.”.

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4Moms: Predicting Parent Pain Points

PYMNTS

The current incarnation is the overly fussy millennial mom who has custom-color-change bath beads to test the baby’s water — or the urban lumberjack dad with smart-fabric kids’ clothes that allow him to monitor his toddler’s core temperature while they take their daily walk in the park together. It’s neat, I guess, but so what.”.

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How About Profits in the Branch of the Future?

Jeff For Banks

Malls are experiencing difficulty in the United States, as millennials opt for smaller, urban environments to shop. This is down from 4.17% for banks and 2.51% for thrifts in 2006. Since 2006, community banks have recognized the need for greater balances in branches to improve profitability. Not very inspiring.

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

CB Insights

In 2006, investment banks were at the top of the finance world. While the rules against prop trading have more recently been loosened, the restriction has still changed how investment banks operate. Even as the regulation pendulum swings back toward more limited oversight, how investment banks operate is fundamentally changing.