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Client 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 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 MoreRecording: Navigating the Land of Giants
Download Presentation (PDF) According to FDIC and S&P Global data published last year, 3% of the largest banks have about 83% of the deposits in the US. That leaves 17% of deposit accounts to find homes with 97% of the rest of the financial institutions out there.And the intervening year hasn’t helped that 97%. Plus,…
Read MoreNavigating Beyond the “Free Checking” Era in Business Checking
By Dave DeFazio The era of simply offering a free checking account for business checking customers is done. And community FIs’ biggest competitors – megabanks and digital banks – are well aware of that. They’ve been busy adding value to their business checking accounts, especially in the past few years. Unfortunately, it’s not the same…
Read MoreRevitalize Your SMB Checking Accounts and Take on the Megabanks
By Gregg Early A study done by the Independent Community Bankers Association (ICBA) revealed that community banks provide about 60% of SMB loans nationwide. That puts community financial institutions at the center of their communities. It also means that SMBs are a crucial part of a healthy community FI’s portfolio. Both these axioms are the…
Read MoreIt’s Time to Get Beyond Basic Banking
By Gregg Early Few people get excited about basic banking – paying bills, managing account balances. However there is a way to augment these mundane banking functions by extending lifestyle-based banking features so that FIs can help consumers save money when they need to spend it. Doing this offers a unique level of value that…
Read MoreRecording: Raise Your Business Payments Game
Download Presentation (PDF) In the past seven months we’ve seen wild swings in emerging risks and opportunities in the banking sector. That has meant community banks and credit unions have had to react quickly to short-term challenges, rather than set a course for long-term growth. But as the economy and markets settle down, it’s time…
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