Customer service

Bank customers still value human touch

07/06/17

Online and mobile banking are essential elements in 21st century financial services, but there’s more to banking than digital transactions.

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The downside of scaling back the CFPB complaint database

06/26/17

Financial firms say the database is unreliable and would like to see it removed from public view. But the industry would also lose access to competitive insights that can be gleaned from the massive trove of consumer complaints.

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This is how financial services chatbots are going to evolve

05/26/17

Today’s primitive question-and-answer programs will mature into sophisticated conversational agents, which will help customers transact and may even be capable of understanding emotional cues, experts say.

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Why this regional bank made autism-friendly branches a priority

05/10/17

Regions Financial is taking steps across its 1,500-branch network to embrace consumers with autism and train its staff to help them. Business development, not just compassion, is part of the motivation.

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Simple said to drop 0.7% of its customers in transition snafu

04/17/17

The fiasco may hold a valuable lesson for fintechs and banks alike about the need for closer integration.

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