Small Business Insights: Looking for Easier Banking
Small Business Insights: Looking for Easier Banking, investigates the changing behavior and expectations of small businesses to help financial institutions effectively attract and retain this key segment.
Payments and Channels Insights: The Continuing March Toward Mobile
Payments and Channels Insights: The Continuing March Toward Mobile, investigates consumers' changing behavior and expectations when spending and transacting.
While rising rates have inspired depositors, borrowing demand has begun to slip from post-recession highs in 2017. Financial institutions can still find lending opportunities, especially from Millennials in their prime borrowing years.
Rising rates have woken depositors from a long slumber, and expectations of earning more have grown. Opportunities remain for financial institutions to differentiate their deposit and investment offerings. This 46-page study examines how banks and credit unions can succeed in a war for deposits and gives strategic and tactical recommendations to capture dollars while maintaining margins.
Self-Drive My Car: Buying and Financing in an Uber World
Self-Drive My Car: Buying and Financing in an Uber World, investigates how changing technology will impact consumer behavior for buying and financing cars and what those changes mean for financial institutions.
Gimme Credit: Faster, Simpler, Safer Credit for Main Street America
The largest banks pulled back from small business lending during the recession, yet even in this strong economy, community financial institutions and FinTech companies have struggled to fill the gap. This 46 page comprehensive study, presented in cooperation with PayNet, examines how inefficiencies for the former and high costs for the latter have hindered small business lending and how overco
Technology and Banking: How Consumers Are Adapting to the Digital World
From mobile payments to cryptocurrencies, from wearables to virtual assistants, technology is changing how consumers bank and transact. By identifying how other industries have felt disruption, financial institutions can help understand their own risk.
The Keys to Loyalty: How USAA Engenders Loyalty in Its Members through Service and Branding
Customer loyalty brings growth, profitability, and efficiency; in this 42 page study, Raddon examines how institutions can improve their customer loyalty. Using USAA as a case for successful loyalty, the study explores how banks and credit unions stack up and what USAA is doing that they aren’t.
Financial Literacy: Prosperity Begins with Knowledge
In this 36-page study, Raddon examines the state of the average American’s personal finances. Many U.S. consumer households are inadequately prepared for unexpected expenses. While demographics like age and income play a role in this lack of readiness, high-income households are often unprepared as well.
Access to loans for education has allowed a generation of students to achieve a higher level of education than any generation in history. Yet those same loans have stifled that generation’s perceived ability to move forward in life.
