Few global brands have created the equity of Kodak. For decades, Kodak was synonymous with family memories and led the world in intellectual capital related to imaging – in both chemical and digital realms. Kodak is a household name if there ever was one. For example, the colloquialism, “Kodak Moment”, refers to a rare, one [...]

Account opening is an interesting process at US Banks and it is insightful to see how much the process and style differs across banks. At one bank, I was given a needs assessment, asked about my mortgage and what kind of credit cards I carried. Another bank showed me a list of accounts and asked [...]

Last Thursday, Celent hosted it’s annual Banking Innovation & Insight Day. It’s the first time we have held an event in Atlanta and were pleased by the fantastic turnout. We had a broad range of panel sessions and presentations, all following a common theme – banking innovation. Bank Systems & Technology wrote up a brief [...]

Last Thursday, Celent hosted it’s annual Banking Innovation & Insight Day. It’s the first time we have held an event in Atlanta and were pleased by the fantastic turnout. We had a broad range of panel sessions and presentations, all following a common theme – banking innovation. Bank Systems & Technology wrote up a brief [...]

Celent Banking team has kicked off 2011 with a bang. In addition to the flury of new reports, we hosted an industry event in London. Management of multiple channels continues to be high on many of our clients’ agendas, and so we decided to focus on the multi-channel theme and called our event “Branch is [...]

The Federal Reserve published a summary of its 2010 Federal Reserve Payments Study this week. Predictably, the study evidenced double digit growth in debit and prepaid cards from 2006 through 2009, alongside essentially flat credit card usage. The study evidenced a continued decline in check writing of -6.5% CAGR, from 33.1 billion in 2006 to [...]

I recently reviewed an Oliver Wyman report on multichannel banking among large European banks that includes the results of a survey of 30 European retail banks from France, Germany, Italy, Spain and United Kingdom. Taking note of relative channel priorities among survey participants, I was compelled to compare those with stated priorities among US banks [...]

This fall, USAA began offering free check deposit services at nearly 30 United Parcel Service Inc. stores in San Antonio, where USAA is headquartered, and San Diego. USAA, whose main office is its only branch, plans to expand the service to more than 1,700 UPS sites nationwide by spring. Some of the press coverage of [...]

Visiting with lots of bankers and technology vendors at BAI, one hears a great deal about alternate channels, and multi-channel integration. My conclusion after all these discussions is that the new alternate channel is the branch. More customers use “alternate channels” such as internet banking, mobile banking, IVR and ATM, than use the branch. I [...]

I just returned from a rare visit to my bank branch. As I was waiting in line, the man in front of me was in the process of screaming at the teller. He was furious that the teller had requested he provide his birthdate and mailing address information prior to handing him cash. She politely [...]