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10 Data-Driven Ideas To Increase Branch Engagement

South State Correspondent

Despite that increase in profitability, banks need to be mindful of how they manage their branch and customer base to increase profitability further. The operative question is: given online and mobile banking, what is the new role of the branch? Our point here is branching isn’t a passive activity.

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Fintech'ers Will Be Right on Branching. Unless Bankers Act.

Jeff For Banks

I also believe that branches can be developed as competitive advantages for community financial institutions. Much like the credit union CEO thinks his branching strategy differentiates his CU. But, as our current strategy execution stands, there is much work to be done. Make your branches look the part.

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Taking A Pass On Passwords

PYMNTS

This week, passwords managed to find a whole new way to “fizzle,” past being simply friction-filled, hard to remember and often repeated across logins by consumers not interested in trying to remember more than one. The greater degree to which one is able to hew to this norm, the safer one’s data will be. Well, about that….

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The Elephant in the Room: Branches

Jeff For Banks

But if branches become less important, and big banks can consolidate one branch with the one in the next town over, what are they going to do with the palace? These branches are very expensive, are fixed assets on the bank''s books, and are 100% risk-weighted for capital calculation purposes.

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Steal This 5-Step Banking Innovation Playbook from Gentle Monster

South State Correspondent

How Banks Can Leverage: While not exactly a banking innovation, banks can better allocate capital to COIs. 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.