Discovery Center
Research Part 3: SMB Banking Relationship Paradoxes Are Opportunities for Community FIs
Editor’s Note: This is the third in a monthly series exploring market research we commissioned with financial services firm Cornerstone Advisors to get a state of market view through the eyes of SMB leaders across the country. Our main goal was to understand their challenges now and how community financial institutions could best compete…
Read MoreClient Story with Heritage Bank
Download PDF Recently we were fortunate to be able to sit down with Teresa Dean, Senior Vice- President of Branch Banking Administration for Heritage Bank. The bank’s headquarters in in Olympia, Washington, and it has 50 branches in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Heritage has roots that go back to 1927, making it a few years…
Read MoreResearch Part 2: Reinventing a Community FI Strategy to Regain SMB Market Share
Editor’s Note: This is the second in a monthly series exploring market research we commissioned with financial services firm Cornerstone Advisors to get a state of market view through the eyes of SMB leaders across the country. Our main goal was to understand their challenges now and how community financial institutions could best compete…
Read MoreClient Story with Texas Bay Credit Union
Download PDF Texas Bay Credit Union started 87 years ago, built by local people to help local people. It arrived a few decades after the oil industry started to build the beginnings of modern Houston, and a couple decades after today’s Rice University opened its doors. Texas Bay’s original roots are the Houston Sinclair Refinery…
Read MoreRecording: Community Bankers Survey on the 3 Ds: Deposits, Differentiation, and Decisions
Download Presentation (PDF) We decided that if we want to know how bankers are planning for deposit growth next year, we weren’t going to rely on statistics and projections – we were going straight to the source. We asked hundreds of community bank and credit union leaders to tell us what they were planning for…
Read MoreWhat Banking Can Learn from Amazon Prime
By Mike Branton Building a fair exchange of value in a subscriber-first ecosystem is a winner for consumers and Amazon. If there’s one program that stands well above all others as the greatest marriage of a digital retail products selling platform and value-based subscription pricing, it is Amazon Prime. The numbers don’t lie, making…
Read MoreResearch Part 1: Reinventing a Community FI Strategy to Regain SMB Market Share
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a monthly series exploring market research we commissioned with financial services firm Cornerstone Advisors to get a state of market view through the eyes of SMB leaders across the country. Our main goal was to understand their challenges now and how community financial institutions could best compete…
Read MoreRethinking the Small Business Checking Playbook
By Dave DeFazio This article was previously published on BankDirector.com Even before interest rates rose, community banks and credit unions were battling megabanks, regional banks and the new wave of digital banks and fintechs to keep and attract traditional retail and small business checking account customers. This battle is for only a small percentage of…
Read MoreRecording: What’s New with Business Checking? BaZingBiz Checking
Download Presentation (PDF) The lifeblood of community banks and credit unions is SMBs because these businesses are the lifeblood of the communities these financial institutions serve. For the past two decades we’ve served more than 2 million customers and members and more than 400 community FIs, helping them deliver the best products and services to…
Read MoreRenasant Bank and StrategyCorps – Trusted Alliance
Download PDF Evolutionary thinking breeds success. Growth, determination to succeed, resilience, and forward thinking minds best embody Renasant. In this, creating an environment to lead, direct, and compliment others recommendations while providing positive solutions have made the success between Renasant and StrategyCorps a story worth telling. Pick a Partner, Not a Vendor Renasant’s history…
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