Posts Tagged ‘fintech’

Why would consumers show more interest in a fee-based account from Amazon than a free account? One reason is surely the value-added services bundled in. But there’s another reason: Consumers have learned (the hard way) that a free checking account isn’t really free.  As one bank customer, commenting online, put it:  “The issue isn’t wanting…

Over the first half of the 2010s, the number of checks written in the United States declined from 41.9 billion to 17.1 billion — a nearly 60% drop. Bad news for checking accounts, right? Wrong.  According to the FDIC, the percentage of U.S. households without a checking account dropped from 8.2% in 2011 to 7% in…

Case in point: the rapid adoption and use of smartphones in today’s world have made consumers aware of two realities:  Those devices break. Bad people are misusing other people’s personal data.  What’s your checking products doing to help your customers/members with these realities? If the answer is nothing, here’s a few research points to start…

To thrive in today’s financial marketplace and stand out from the pack, you must deliver checking products with benefits that consumers are demanding, many of which they are already buying from other companies, and your competition isn’t providing.  To get started, take a look at what consumers are already using — and, in most cases,…