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Deep Dive: How Loyalty Innovation Improves Member Relationships, Boosts Brand Awareness

PYMNTS

Although CU members want innovation in member loyalty and rewards, most credit unions are not delivering these programs up to the desired standards. Credit union members’ high expectations when it comes to loyalty innovation do not necessarily make or break their banking relationships. Loyalty Innovation Strategies .

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In Banking Innovation, Eyeing The Needs Of The ‘Digital Native’

PYMNTS

Depending on where you look, the chasm yawns wide when it comes to innovating with new technologies or features. In a PYMNTS interview with Karen Webster, Joe DeRosa, EVP of Global Sales at i2c , discussed the findings of the July 2019 Innovation Readiness Playbook , subtitled “Leveling the Playing Field for Different-Sized FIs.”

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Varo crosses 1 million customers, with plans to become a bank by 2020

Bank Innovation

Digital banking brand Varo has 1 million customers, and is pushing ahead with plans to become a nationally-chartered bank early next year, CEO Colin Walsh told Bank Innovation Tuesday.

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With podcasts and billboard ads, Brex focuses on brand building

Bank Innovation

Corporate card and financial product startup Brex is best known as an enabling platform for businesses, with a focus on startups. The three-year-old company, which is reportedly valued at $2.6 billion, initially spread the word about its offerings through word-of-mouth referrals. But that’s quickly changing.

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Weekly Wrap: Banks tackle crisis CX and stand-alone brands

BankInovation

This week, Bank Innovation took a look a Verint report that ranked some of the country’s biggest banks based on their crisis customer experience during the COVID-19 pandemic. Smaller banks, meanwhile, are pursuing stand-alone brands despite the fact that bigger banks have stumbled with their own digital offshoots.

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Open Banking and Ecosystems

Cisco

It is about opening up information to spur innovation of third-party providers to build new, added-value offerings. Before open banking, financial institutions would hold on to its customers data, so it was difficult for new, innovative financial services providers to break into the market since they couldn’t access the data.

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How Can Financial Services Institutions Better Support Women? – An International Women’s Day Blog

Perficient

The program has 10 courses in topics including business finance, digital marketing, and innovation strategy. Gone are the days when a company could just add some (traditionally) feminine branding and call its efforts toward gender inclusivity sufficient.