The Basics – Wealth Management
With this newsletter, we continue our series presenting summary views on areas in which we specialize. (Our two previous newsletters focused on Small Business and Middle Market banking, respectively.) This…
Focuses on improving performance in small business and middle market banking.
With this newsletter, we continue our series presenting summary views on areas in which we specialize. (Our two previous newsletters focused on Small Business and Middle Market banking, respectively.) This…
Over recent weeks, clients, prospects, and friends have approached FIC, all expressing a need for insights about the “basics” of some of the areas in which we specialize. Reasons range…
On both the consumer and commercial sides of banking, wallet-share penetration is poor. Typically, banks allow other players, whether banks or non-banks, to capture revenues that should be theirs. Too…
Last week, we spoke at Thomson Media’s Wealth Management Forum. Our focus centered on the need for banks to forge closer linkages between their commercial and wealth management efforts. This…
This week’s Consumer Banking Association’s Small Business Banking Conference featured a keynote address by Peter Raskind, National City Bank’s Executive Vice President and head of Consumer and Small Business Financial…
FIC’s recent commercial banking projects have focused on emphasizing increased selling over other tasks. The rationale for this is that senior management wants to see increased growth from a middle…
In early July, The Economist featured a story on U.S banks titled “Tighter Times Ahead.” Similarly, last Thursday’s Wall Street Journal published an article, “Bank Stocks May Face Rough Ride.”…