Industry Trend: Aggregator / Comparison Sites

This entry is part 30 of 30 in the series Trends

  Deloitte observes that aggregator sites that compare products across banks such as UK’s MoneySuperMarket.com are becoming very popular, reducing cross-sales from the privileged access banks have to customers, and reducing banks’ competitive advantage. More on this in Industry Trend: The Bank Finds You.

Market Trend: Increased Substitution with Capital Markets

This entry is part 29 of 30 in the series Trends

Deloitte observes that both sides of banks’ balance sheets are threatened by the security markets. Traditional bank borrowers are shifting to bonds, positions in commercial real estate (CRE), and peer-to-peer lending services.

Industry Trend: Social Servicing

This entry is part 27 of 30 in the series Trends

Banks are servicing customers on social media and this has a profound effect on the tone of customer comments on social media, according to Digital Bank. In the book Skinner interviews Banco Sabvadell, a top-six bank in Spain who has serviced customers on social media since 2010 and see social media as “like a pub… Read More »

Technology Trend: Biometric Authentication

This entry is part 26 of 30 in the series Trends

The most notable example of biometric authentication is the fingerprint scanner on the iPhone.  I love it and use it at least 20 times a day! I was fascinated by the finger vein scanner at the IBM lab in Singapore.  You do not need to make contact with the device, which appeals to my germ… Read More »

Technology Trend: Fast Cycle of Consumer Technology

This entry is part 25 of 30 in the series Trends

Banks need to be agile in the build/test/deploy of new apps.  Digital Bank describes banks that invested in iPhone and then customers switched to Samsung.  This will accelerate.  Indeed, consumer technology is an important part of the environment for Banks.  Pol Navarro believes “innovation is a need to adapt to an environment, which changes faster… Read More »