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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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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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Beware the 'Cargo Cult' of Performance Targets

American Banker

Is your bank effectively mitigating the risk of 'managing to metrics'? The phony-account scandal at Wells Fargo illustrates how sales quotas can incent bad behavior. Or could it be in danger of becoming a 'cargo cult'?

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Wells Fargo Won't Give Up 'Cross-Sell Focus,' CEO Says

American Banker

Two top executives said the scandal-plagued bank has managed to minimize the financial damage and can continue to grow amid some reforms. Yet they acknowledged that the full toll has yet to be realized, and the company announced it had significantly raised its estimated legal exposure.

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Wells Fargo Just Gave Small Banks a Big Gift

American Banker

The scorcher at Wells is giving some community bankers an opening to differentiate themselves from larger institutions that seem fee-dependent or "too big to manage.".

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Bank of the Year: USAA

American Banker

For its commitment to improving the long-term health of depositors, and a nimble, failure-is-not-a-dirty-word approach to innovation, USAA has earned an honor American Banker normally bestows on a single individual.