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Brand Differentiation – How One Bank Is Producing 132% Profit Growth

South State Correspondent

If your bank struggles to create a clear value proposition and brand differentiation, then we have a case study for you. Brand Differentiation Step 1: Build an Employee-Centric Culture. Nubank is an example of what happens when you invest in your products in order to differentiate your brand.

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Steal This 5-Step Banking Innovation Playbook from Gentle Monster

South State Correspondent

Honkook Kim and his Gentle Monster Brand is a perfect example. The Banking Innovation Playbook – Step 1: Find a Niche Kim looked at the market and knew he needed traction in at least a single segment where he could create a brand and a following for Gentle Monster. Leveraging social media, Gentle Monster started to get traction.

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As the U.S. Banking Sector Lags—Banking Brand Values Go Up

Bank Innovation

banks accounted for 81 of the 500 most valuable and strongest bank brands around the world on Brand Finance’s Banking 500 2019 list, released this week. Led by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the world’s most valuable banking brand (at $79.8

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12 Coolest Brands in Banking 2016

Bank Innovation

We are proud fintech nerds, and for five years we have marked the Coolest Brands in Banking on Bank Innovation based not on the type of sunglasses worn by a CEO, but on the Read More. When we think of cool, James Dean doesn’t immediately come to mind. The app Songsterr does.

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Growth Loops – The New Way To Grow Bank Product Sales

South State Correspondent

As mentioned above, it takes focus away from creating a brand and a value proposition in a product. Instead of thinking about how you can grow customers, the commercial lending team often thinks about increasing loans. When it first came out, many bankers laughed at the social media aspects of Venmo with its use of emojis.

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Banks, FinTechs Wield Open Banking For SMB Finance

PYMNTS

This week’s look at the latest open banking efforts and bank-FinTech collaborations reveals small business lending to be an emerging bright-spot in this field. iwoca Drives SMB Lending Ecosystem Connectivity. iwoca Drives SMB Lending Ecosystem Connectivity. The bank announced the acquisition of a 50.1 and Portugal.

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Credit Unions Shun Online Ads For Content To Acquire Customers

PYMNTS

The social media site faced accusations that its ad-targeting platform — which allows ad buyers to select what demographic groups they want to target with their advertisements — was allowing and encouraging financial institutions (FIs) to violate non-discrimination provisions of the Fair Housing and Truth in Lending Acts.