The Financial Brand

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

If financial institutions keep marketing to Gen Z like they did Millennials and Gen X, they'll keep coming up short. The post How Community Banks Can Attract Generation Z With Financial Lessons appeared first on The Financial Brand.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

A lifestyle brand for millennial buyers with an eye for design – but perhaps not the pocketbook for designer prices – the watch and accessories startup MVMT started on its path in 2013. After doing some research on suppliers, the duo found quite a staggering gap between wholesale and retail prices in watch brands.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2020

Competition for customers — especially millennials — from larger banks and FIs has long required credit unions to keep pace with their more innovative counterparts. This often means providing digital solutions and convenient banking options despite smaller technology and innovation budgets, however.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2020

A recent PYMNTS study found that more than two-thirds of consumers see rescuing Main Street physical retail linked to the economic vitality of their local communities. We learn that the creative innovation that’s capturing people’s imaginations more than anything now is the mighty spoken word.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

But Smith was committed, and believed that among outdoor enthusiasts — particularly millennials like himself — a digitally-native brand with a story to tell and a unique way of pursuing its core mission would have an awful lot of appeal. “My You have to go deeper, and make a human connection that’s meaningful,” he noted.

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Let's Talk Payments

JUNE 18, 2019

Ever since its opening in 1871, JP Morgan has remained a valuable and reliable player among the top brands in the banking sector. No wonder it came as a shock to the financial community when the bank shut down Finn within just a year of its launch. The question that has intrigued many in the industry remains – what went wrong?

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NCR

JULY 12, 2016

Millennial customers are quickly becoming key to the growth strategy of financial institutions, particularly in hyper-competitive markets where customer churn remains high. While millennials tend to judge a bank on the basis of its digital capabilities, they still also expect a human connection to advise them.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Millennials are also more likely to go the do-it-yourself (DIY) route than consumers from other age groups. Almost three quarters — or 73 percent — of millennials are doing DIY home improvement. Products in the box come from brands such as Milwaukee, Ryobi and Gorilla Glue as well as Varathane, Watco, Everbilt and 3M.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2019

The region is also the home to more than 213 million millennials. Together, Visa and Razer FinTech have the opportunity to transform the payments experience for not only the gaming community, but many of Southeast Asia’s unbanked and underserved consumers as well,” said Chris Clark, Visa’s regional president for Asia Pacific.

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The Financial Brand

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

If financial institutions keep marketing to Gen Z like they did Millennials and Gen X, they'll keep coming up short. The post How Pineapples are Helping Community Banks Attract Younger Customers appeared first on The Financial Brand.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2019

Tick down the list of offerings spanning decades (the Mac, the iPhone, the iPod, iTunes, the iOS operating system/ecosystem), and one can find that the ways we communicate, listen, stream and, indeed, interact with technology have all shifted. but Apple has made itself indispensable across many verticals.

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NCR

MAY 9, 2017

But technology innovators and financial institutions have worked together for generations. Most community banks and credit unions have only one app, their banking transaction app. In addition to branding, tips generated to improve the user’s score direct the user to HNB products, providing in-context customer acquisition.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

In retail, and especially for personal beauty brands trying to navigate brick-and-mortar and online subscription spaces, this is doubly true. Calvin McDonald, CEO of Sephora Americas, talked the Innovation Lab up as Sephora’s crucible of retail disruption.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2017

based VocaLink , the 2016 recipient of NACHA’s Payments Award for innovation, expansion and development of products supporting faster payments to increase payments access, efficiency and security across the globe. But Evers also said that Thailand’s success with faster payment innovations can offer lessons back in the U.K.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2016

coupons, promotions and sales – oh my), it’s increasingly been shoppers themselves who have turned away from luxury-priced brands in favor of a dollar store mentality. The effects of this new shopper ethos are widespread, and while more and more retailers try to give consumers what they think they want (i.e.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2018

As a long-time Whole Foods customer, I know, like and trust the Whole Foods brand and the quality of the products they carry in-store. On top of Prime Deals, brands will be able to offer me deals to select their brands over others with special coupons and offers too, just like they do today online at Amazon Pantry.

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Celent Banking

MARCH 16, 2015

The conference was full of community bankers discussing evolving business models and the pressures its placing on their ability to gather deposits. Large banks are now trying to compete on serving the customer and they´re positioning themselves to look and feel like a community experience. Presenters proposed some solutions.

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 3, 2018

That's what I thought about while reading a recent Financial Brand post about Innovation in Banking: Killer Ideas? 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? or Idea Killers?

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

A consensus says that the future banking customer relationships—particularly for millennial consumers—will orbit to one degree or another around mobile technology. Tying community bank relationships with mobile banking is like peanut butter and jelly—it adds lots of stickiness and feeds the relationship.”. —Ed

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CB Insights

MARCH 26, 2019

Every few weeks, another story about the dreaded generation surfaces: millennials are killing casual dining; millennials are killing breakfast cereal; millennials are killing home ownership. Millennials aren’t shunning luxury goods; they’re just renting them instead of buying. Millennials are in debt.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2018

Catering to the demands of millennials and Gen Z, brands are putting more emphasis on values such as authenticity, community and supporting social causes. What’s more authentic and communal than living, working, shopping and dining all in one place?

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Banking 2020

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

No one understands this trend better than those pesky millennials. These digital-heavy, mobile-savvy youngsters feel free to eschew brand loyalty and shop around for options on a whim, and the constant emergence of new technologies supports fickle habits. At the same time, credit unions chalked up 3% growth in new millennial customers.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The day after Halloween marks the 60-day sprint to the end of the year – a year in which the pace of innovation has accelerated materially. The shifts associated with that innovation are beginning to take root, and those impacts are beginning to be felt. Facebook … and the Facebook Community. Google … and Ad-Supported Search .

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

ARC), which says it “provides channel-agnostic tools and insights to help the global travel community connect, grow and thrive,” had taken a majority stake in nuTravel, described as a “leading developer of applications that provide airlines with online retailing solutions with enhanced features to support travel agency services.”.

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

Katerina Frolovicheva (MD, Technologies Innovations). This is a leading bank in Russia, with a track record of fintech innovation. Branded version is available. ^KT. David Carr (Innovation Manager). Fiserv is meeting that need for FIs and millennials. Presenting a programmable cloud – a fintech platform. ^KT.

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Your Full Potential

JANUARY 22, 2016

A memorable experience can help communicate that value. Believe it or not, consumers really care about value and brand. If your brand reflects that your organization can provide those solutions, people will take notice. They need specifics. They need clarity. They need reasons. They need you to answer the W.I.I.F.M.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Mark Turner, Executive Chairman of the Board, WSFS Bank – We have to give the nod to an early 2019 retirement of Turner, who had one hell of a run in 12 years at the helm of a great community and wealth bank. It was always clear how much Jones loves his credit union, his team and his community. It is an innovator with tech (e.g.,

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Most regional and community banks aren’t in the position to develop cutting-edge mobile banking products in-house. If you’re local and small, you’re much more accessible to your customer, and that is a major part of the draw for community banks — the personal relationship,” Fossella told Karen Webster in a recent interview.

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2018

It’s a big market today (which will be an exponentially bigger market tomorrow), one that innovators from all over technology, retail, payments and financial services are rushing to get in on at the ground floor, even though that ground floor itself is being built underneath them. Rewards and loyalty schemes are way down on the list.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2018

However, that glass-half-full view isn’t warranted, Visa ’s Global Head of Innovation and Design Mark Jamison told Karen Webster, and is based on a view of commerce that is too myopic. We are seeing retirement communities adopting voice because it is so easy to use,” Jamison said. That’s not how they think about commerce.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2018

WeWork chief brand officer Julie Rice says that WeMrkt is “by our members, for our members.”. The firm has already opened co-living communities in New York and Washington DC. WeMrkt is a great example of WeWork’s commitment to our members’ success,” she went on to note. It’s name? WeLive, of course. But the price tag?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2017

But consumers are still shopping in physical locations nine out of 10 times, which means even the biggest and most successful digital brands have decided to make roots in the physical world. Amazon built physical bookstores; the company then acquired an already well-established physical retail brand in Whole Foods.

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CB Insights

JULY 17, 2018

Instead, new millennial-inspired and tech-infused dining trends have been emerging across the US and internationally. Many of yesterday’s casual dining brands are dying, but not because millennials “don’t eat out.” Community initiatives: Loom (Massachusetts). Dining out. the Future of food report.

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Banking 2020

JANUARY 20, 2016

Millennials, in particular, are embracing mobile payments with open arms: 44% of Millennials would rather use their mobile phones than cash to pay for smaller ticket items. 50% of Millennials want mobile payments because they want faster transactions. 85% say they are open trying new banking and payment technologies.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Bank Innovation named Jill one of the 10 most innovative CEOs in banking for 2015, and we doubt that Bank Innovation would know who Jill is if not for her presence on Twitter. To those community bankers claiming their growing Compliance departments say no to everything. Community bank marketing resources.

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Gonzobanker

OCTOBER 6, 2015

With digital innovator acquisitions like Venmo, Braintree and Paydiant, PayPal is still squarely focused on becoming the world’s open payments network. Research from mobile vendor Retale indicates that millennials have a high aversion to dealing with store associates and more preference for self-checkout via mobile phones.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 1, 2016

Bankjoy offers developers a banking API for a modern, real-time, holistic interface for credit unions and community banks. brandCrowder has developed an alternative investment platform focusing on branded franchises. ebankIT’s platform offers financial institution clients an omnichannel experience.

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