Industry Insights
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Core Deposits: Pricing for Retention and Expansion
To strengthen the composition of deposit portfolios, leading banks are refining deposit pricing strategy for major customer groups.
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Whitewater: Checking Fee Strategy for a Turbulent Market
A selective approach will be needed to lift checking economics in a way that preserves the product’s contribution to household growth and retention.
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Deposit Strategy: Tighten for Today or Reposition for Rising Rates?
To manage conflicting priorities, adept banks are parsing deposit strategy into a segment-by-segment exercise, based on the composition of the customer base.
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Commercial Fee Growth: Breaking the Revenue Drought
To grow fee revenues in a tight market, winning commercial banks will use a three-horizon
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Regaining Revenue Altitude
In a challenging market, there is a pressing need for projects that can deliver early results and also set the stage for further advances going into next year.
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Unlocking Liquidity Premiums
While high liquidity premiums were entirely appropriate several years ago, they now are skewing bank funding incentives and lending competitiveness at many banks.
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Relationship Expansion: Sharpening the Focus
As the urgency grows to drive revenue growth, banks will get more lift from expanding customer relationships than from raising fees or cutting costs.
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Making Sense of Mobile
Banks need to do far more homework on customers before rushing to market with mobile applications. A strict appeal to Generation Y sensibilities could backfire.
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Accelerating Branch Small Business Banking
In an era of wrenching change for branch networks, small business banking has become a focal point for revenue growth and an outreach to priority customers and prospects.
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The New Formula for Branch Productivity
Retail branch banking has entered a period of radical change. Comprehensive strategies, as permitted by staff mapping, will be needed to transform the branch workforce.