Building Profitable Customers Is the Way of the Future
Boston, MA (PRWEB) June 16, 2015 -- Recent economic pressures have shrunk the American middle class, and put pressure on the customer base of most financial services providers. Technology provides an opportunity for companies to build profitable customers by helping individuals set goals, manage their money, and build wealth, according to Mercator Advisory Group’s latest research, The Six Million Dollar Customer: Using Technology to Build a Profitable Customer Base.
Banks, credit unions, and other financial services providers have tried to build success by focusing on narrow niches such as the ultra-wealthy, mass affluent, or even the unbanked and underserved. This niche thinking is costing them increased profitability in the long run because it does not recognize the ways in which they help customers build wealth and thus become more profitable customers. Combining a life-cycle approach with new technology can build a portfolio of customers who each have a profitable personal portfolio.
“Financial services is one of the few sectors that actually has the power to build the kind of customers that it wants, but it requires rethinking the approach to the delivery of those services,” commented Ben Jackson, Director, Prepaid Advisory Service and author of the report.
Highlights of the research report include:
- The customer base for most financial service providers is eroding as income and asset growth stagnates.
- Banks, credit unions, and other financial service companies can build the kind of customers they want.
- Financial services technology has advanced to a point where customers can be led through a process that builds their individual wealth while also improving providers’ bottom lines.
- Automation combined with traditional banking and financial know-how will enable customers to reach their financial goals in a way that benefits banks, credit unions, and other financial services providers.
- Financial institutions will need to change their thinking from silos to barn building to combine tools and areas of the banks in order to build the wealth of their customers, and consequently, their own profitability.
- The added bonus is that this satisfies the desire of legislators, consumer groups, and regulators for more financial service products to help people at all socioeconomic levels.
This research report contains 33 pages and 16 exhibits.
Companies mentioned in this report include: American Express, Bank of America, Betterment, Citigroup, Digit, FIS, Mint, On Budget, Simple, SmartyPig, Square, and Wealthfront.
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About Mercator Advisory Group
Mercator Advisory Group is the leading independent research and advisory services firm exclusively focused on the payments and banking industries. We deliver pragmatic and timely research and advice designed to help our clients uncover the most lucrative opportunities to maximize revenue growth and contain costs. Our clients range from the world's largest payment issuers, acquirers, processors, merchants and associations to leading technology providers and investors. Mercator Advisory Group is also the publisher of the online payments and banking news and information portal PaymentsJournal.com.
Emily Bergeron, Mercator Advisory Group, http://www.mercatoradvisorygroup.com, (781) 419-1700, [email protected]
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