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With the possibility of a recession looming, now is not the time for banks and credit unions to be timid. It’s no secret—the current economic environment is unpredictable, at best, or in a recession, at worst. The meteoric rise in inflation is driving prices to their highest levels in decades, while a reliance upon unsecured…

Oh, the application process. We can’t avoid it, and yet, we can’t quite seem to fix it. It’s just one of those things that continues to be a bottleneck for banks and a test of patience for customers. But as processes became increasingly more digital, there was a glimmer of hope that we’d finally have…

by Pamela Michaels Fay While customer loyalty programs in the banking industry are far from new, they’ve certainly evolved. Today’s customers are too young to remember the late ’60s when receiving a toaster for depositing money into a checking account was quite the incentive for a new customer (toasters were a popular wedding gift back…

by Pamela Michaels Fay When most people think about growing their business, they’re likely referring to scale. Scale and growth, in the context of business, are two terms that are often used interchangeably but are, in fact, fundamentally different. When banks and credit unions are looking to grow their business, they actually need to scale…

Loan fraud is hitting U.S. banks and credit unions hard, both in terms of cost and operational burden. Not only does every $1 of fraud loss cost US financial services $4, but the need for lenders to detect and prevent fraud inevitably adds friction to the application process that can deter genuine end users. All…

Consumers lost over $5.8 billion to fraud in 2021, according to the Federal Trade Commission, and the threat is on the rise. Until financial institutions have a secure, reliable method for verifying account access and transactions, hackers remain ready to pounce. For banks and credit unions, securing data with additional layers of authorization is a…