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Innovation is oxygen in payments. For financial services firms, innovation is spurring speed, killing friction and fostering loyalty among customers. That, itself, begs the question: What is innovation, really? explained there is wide variation in the definition of innovation.
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.”
That said, many lessons can be learned by looking across various industries for best practices around understanding the customer journey, engaging brand experiences, and Millennial and Gen Z customer acquisition and servicing. The Approach.
The entire world has gone mobile—from millennials to grandparents. This norm of using mobile devices to do everything from shopping to banking, mean security and a great userexperience need to go hand-in-hand. That is a staggering statistic clearly pointing to a poor userexperience.
More important, perhaps, than the innovations they made on behalf of their more famous lead players, was how their contributions accelerated those innovations’ time to market. Innovation in payments and commerce has an unsung hero, too. And who will influence how innovation happens.
As depicted over the summer in our Innovation Readiness Playbook , FIs are focusing efforts across digital wallets, P2P payments and, of course, loyalty programs. When it comes to a loyalty program, it’s all about a good userexperience. The Millennials Cometh. We are talking here, of course, about millennials.
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Katerina Frolovicheva (MD, Technologies Innovations). This is a leading bank in Russia, with a track record of fintech innovation. Customers can store all of their online profiles in one secure location to improve userexperience. David Carr (Innovation Manager). Fiserv is meeting that need for FIs and millennials.
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