Jeff For Banks
JUNE 30, 2013
'During periods of uncertainty lies opportunity. Vernon Hill, legendary leader of the former Commerce Bank in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, took advantage of the last time bankers were contemplating the future of branching by beating them over the head with his high profile and rapidly expanding branches. Can another Commerce Bank eat our lunch this time around?
Javelin Strategy & Research
JUNE 25, 2013
I was at the Fiserv Analyst Day on Monday and enjoyed an excellent session by Tom Roberts on social payments and the evolution of Popmoney. One slide Tom displayed has two columns of companies he categorized as "contenders" and "curiosities" for the role of social payments. Top of the column of "curiosities" was Square, which led to a conversation around the future of Square and what it will need to do to evolve.
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Jeff For Banks
JUNE 20, 2013
'Credit Unions don''t pay taxes! They''re trying to steal our business customers! I often quote Sun Tzu from his over 2,000 year old book, The Art of War. One of my favorites: "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles." The frequent and resource sapping waling about credit unions tells me that banks don''t know their enemies, umm, competition.
Jeff For Banks
JUNE 8, 2013
'The St. Louis Fed recently performed a study to uncover the characteristics of community banks that thrived during the financial crisis. Thriving banks were defined as under $10 billion in assets, and maintained a composite CAMELS 1 rating in each exam cycle from 2006-11, an impressive accomplishment. As with most government driven academic studies, there were numerous answers.
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Jeff For Banks
JUNE 1, 2013
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Javelin Strategy & Research
JUNE 11, 2013
There’s a bit of irony regarding two headlines in my local newspaper: “Tech firms seek to lift secrecy on spy data” on the front page, and “Google buying startup Waze” stripped across the Business front.
Javelin Strategy & Research
JUNE 10, 2013
When smartphones hit the scene, the reaction in the financial services industry was predictable and practical. Innovative financial institutions rushed to roll out a user experience that mirrored what customers had come to expect from their online channels. In too many cases, though, that led to a lot of squinting and fumbling. Then came the iPad, and the quickest financial institutions responded initially with a “2x” magnification of their iPhone apps that led to over-sized and over-pixalated k
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