Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

THE BANKER AWARDS. Lots of tech and operations to clean up, it appears, but no solid bank is better qualified than the team from Minneapolis. Lots of tech and operations to clean up, it appears, but no solid bank is better qualified than the team from Minneapolis. Doug Larson. Gonzo readers, 2021 was just plain schizophrenic.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Bankers started the year with good business plans, strong balance sheets, and optimism. Even George Bailey would have given you the thumbs up. This is a classic bank deal – one acronym buys another at a good price and plans to cut the hell out of cost while adding markets. ” – Hunter Thompson. Everything.

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South State Correspondent

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In the olden days, if you wanted to market deposits, the head of Retail would come to Marketing and say something like – “We need to raise deposits.” ” Marketing would then put together some ideas for a print or digital campaign; Retail would sign off on it, and then they would roll it out.

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FICO

JUNE 9, 2022

Executives responsible building and marketing compelling customer experiences in financial services and insurance – or those responsible for customer service and retention – must feel like they are stuck in a never-ending game of Whac-A-Mole. Enterprise Intelligence: 5 Steps to Ending a Whac-a-Mole Approach. Tue, 07/02/2019 - 02:45.

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Customers love digital self-service—right up until they don’t, and then they want a live person. In our work with banks and credit unions around the country, an unavoidable truth comes up again and again: Even the flashiest digital strategy falls flat without the backing of a strong contact center.

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Gonzobanker

JULY 28, 2014

Let’s just get this out of the way right up front: most bankers rank going through a formal system selection process right up there with a trip to the dentist. So, having dispensed with the pleasantries we’ll move right along and in the spirit of Kramer, just say “Giddy Up!”. Online Applications and Borrower Portal.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Rainbolt has quietly built a community bank in the past 20 years that is closing in on $2 billion of market cap. For 35 years, Wilmers led M&T with creativity, integrity and the “old-school” wisdom of a community banker who created a $26 billion market cap company. GonzoBanker of the Year – Large Banks.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 2, 2022

As a result, bankers love the idea of a sales funnel – put enough prospects at the top of the funnel, and a certain number of customers will fall out the bottom. Some will not know the answer, and other bankers will talk about more marketing, more salespeople, more geography, better follow-up, or a more focused sales effort.

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CB Insights

JUNE 3, 2020

Wealth & Capital Markets. This shift is driving transaction volume to the payments companies behind online retailers and taking market share away from those serving physical retailers. This comes as no surprise, as Covid-19 is keeping the venture landscape broadly in something of a holding pattern. Take the payments sector.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

On the eve of Yahoo’s acquisition of social networking platform Tumblr, then Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer wrote a Tumblr post promising “not to screw it up.” Below, we look at some the worst mergers and acquisitions undertaken by large corporations, and how the good times went bad. The Sad State of Corporate Innovation. Microsoft and Nokia.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The company’s market capitalization, which after declining to less than $600 million in the 2009 recession, has now grown to almost $3 billion. There is an understanding that technology and fintech are going to cause radical change, but the how, how big and when are still very unclear. But that’s for next year. First, find a comfy chair.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

After the collapse of Lehman and Bear Stearns and the global financial crisis that ensued, the business models of the world’s biggest investment banks needed to change. In the US, legislation emerged to forbid investment banks from prop trading, or trading with their own capital, and forcing them to keep more capital on hand.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 28, 2022

These trends received more support this month when the President signed an Executive Order supporting the legal and equitable use of technology around a digital currency and digital assets ( HERE ). By way of background, we gave bankers a primer on how to work with defi and blockchains a while back ( HERE ).

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Check back for new updates throughout the day. An App Store for FinTech applications. I’ve seen these folks before, it’s pretty slick. Showing how someone can connect to other vendors for free for their clients. Showing how someone can connect to other vendors for free for their clients. I like what they are doing and I think they could be very big.

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Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

And, man, did it ever … with the Aliens -esque signs of bankers getting their brains sucked out (or was it minds being blown by presenters, not sure?). With a focus on digital banking and branch transformation, it was interesting to see the attendee list with lots of sexy new customer experience and analytics titles.

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Chicago Retail Branch Design Training 97

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

All of you with your hands up… … uh huh. It would have required a few trips to the local dispensary to dream up what bankers have endured this year. 1 issue raised by CEOs in our surveys, bankers had to craft a new and compelling post-Covid value proposition to attract it. OK, show of hands. Pull ’em down. Nobody did.

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Gonzobanker

OCTOBER 21, 2015

This was the clever multi-media marketing of clever multi-media marketing. Tripodi told bankers to look for the functional, emotional and societal benefits of our brands and to tell better stories to broaden appeal. Main Sessions: Welcome to the SharkTank! Oracle’s Innovation Lounge. Have a seat … plenty of room.

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FICO

JULY 6, 2020

I shared our top tips to help everyone working in debt collection meet this unprecedented challenge in a presentation last week at the Retail Banker International virtual conference. Collections departments are now bracing themselves for a tsunami of people unable to meet their financial commitments.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Sure, we bought some December options on west Texas crude at $100 a barrel, but it was only with a third of the 401(k)—plenty of time to make that up, right? It’s hard for any banker to avoid gulping at the sheer long-term performance of George Gleason II and his team at the Bank of the Ozarks. ” – Tom Armstrong. That’s two.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2014

We are seeing it show up lots of places, it’s real and it’s great for this industry. Rise of the Analytics Organization in a Dog-Eat-Dog World – Brush off your resumes Gonzoanalysts, at our client roundtables we heard about analytics organizations being formed and analysts and managers being hired to head them.

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FICO

DECEMBER 14, 2016

And while I was correct that 2016 did turn out to be the year of bad analytics —see the ultimate illustration below—this year I’m doing something different: I’m predicting what won’t happen in the coming 12 months. The past year perhaps held no analytic surprise greater than the 2016 US Presidential election. Source: New York Times.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2016

A deep mistrust is growing for anything that feels bureaucratic or obfuscated, and bankers stand at a crossroads as to where they may fall in this shakeout. In the post-Wells-scandal world where the shift from people and bricks to machines and digital is getting very real, bankers are scrambling to build new generations of their businesses.

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Utah System Community Marketing 60

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2016

A deep mistrust is growing for anything that feels bureaucratic or obfuscated, and bankers stand at a crossroads as to where they may fall in this shakeout. In the post-Wells-scandal world where the shift from people and bricks to machines and digital is getting very real, bankers are scrambling to build new generations of their businesses.

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Utah System Community Marketing 60

Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

So pick up your ticket while you still can and join the 1,500-person gathering in Manhattan September 16 & 17. Market segments include insurance, banks, telecom, utilities, and property management. Alpine Data Labs is a predictive analytics company focused on making analytical insights more accessible to the business.

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