Audience: Credit Unions

  • Loan Fraud: How To Detect and Prevent Against the Next Generation of Lending Fraudsters

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    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…

  • The Ins and Outs of Knowledge-Based Authentication for Identity Verification in Banking

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    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…

  • Customer Identification Programs 101: A Guide for Banks and Credit Unions

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    The customer identification program (CIP) is an essential part of the daily operations of banks and credit unions. In the U.S., financial institutions are required by the federal government to verify the identity of their customers. Implemented in 2003, CIP is a provision of the USA Patriot Act. It requires banks and credit unions to…

  • Digital Banking Automation: Make the Manual Review Process a Thing of the Past

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    by Marty Aquino For many banks and credit unions, manual reviews are a mixed bag. Sure, they are sometimes entertaining for the reviewers, but as anyone who has ever experienced the process knows, they are often unnecessary. And in this increasingly digital world, traditional, analog manual reviews may not only be inefficient for your banks…

  • A Roadmap to Predictive Analytics Tools in Digital Banking

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    Banks and credit unions are not only repositories of money, but of business and consumer data. Predictive analytics tools help your organization more effectively use your data to enhance business decisions, gain competitive advantages, improve satisfaction and fortify user loyalty by personalizing their experiences. Regarding user satisfaction, McKinsey indicates that U.S. retail banking end users’…

  • How To Manage Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) Features

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    If the Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) feature isn’t standard yet, it won’t be too long before it is. When customers make large purchases — and even some smaller ones — they often look for this option. And it’s not just customers who are excited about the choice. Some of the largest retailers, like Amazon…

  • How Biometric Authentication Secures the Future of Digital Banking 

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    Digital banking is on the rise. So too is digital fraud. Fortunately, today’s biometric authentication lets banks and credit unions know who’s on the other end of a remote transaction. That could be great protection for the nearly 215 million people whom experts predict will regularly bank online in the U.S. in 2022.   The financial…

  • Why Banks and Credit Unions Should Care About Sustainable Banking

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    by Marty Aquino Sustainable banking is an opportunity to strongly appeal to the largest, most populous generations. In 2019, according to the Pew Research Center, millennials outnumbered boomers. Further, according to the Brookings Institution, more than half of Americans are millennials or younger. Two of the unifying values that millennials and Gen Zers share are…

  • Why Customer Segmentation in Banking Is Crucial for Marketing and Service Offerings

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    Banks and credit unions have been using customer segmentation strategies forever. It’s also been a challenge to devise useful strategies. That’s because financial institutions were limited by clunky back-end legacy systems that made it difficult, if not impossible, to get reliable data. Even Citibank, led by tech visionary John Reed — the bank that introduced…

  • 6 Different Types of Cryptocurrency: A Quick Guide for Banks and Credit Unions

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    by Fred Decker Throughout most of its history, the banking sector has been a bastion of stability and slow, conservative change. That’s no longer the case, as competition from aggressive fintechs and pressure from a generation of impatient, digital-native consumers have forced financial institutions into a cycle of rapid adaptation.  Some of these challenges, like…