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What They Don’t Teach You at Banking School

May 31, 2017 by JP Nicols

The financial services industry has a long and important tradition of executive education. Up and coming managers are sent off to graduate banking programs to learn industry best practices developed over prior decades, and in some cases, centuries. These programs are well prepared to teach the evolving art and science of asset and liability management, credit underwriting, portfolio […]

Filed Under: Bank Innovation, Leadership, Strategy

The Power of One Sigma

January 31, 2017 by JP Nicols

Six Sigma is a quality improvement program that gets its name from the concept of 99.9997% quality. In statistics, each sigma represents the statistical measure of 1 standard deviation from the mean in a range of outcomes in a normal distribution. Six sigma translates into no more than 3.4 defects per million opportunities. It is often related to (and sometimes conflated with) […]

Filed Under: Bank Innovation, FinTech, Leadership, Strategy

Integrated Loyalty: How Uber and Capital One Embedded Loyalty into the Customer Experience

November 22, 2016 by JP Nicols

This is the last of my special Invested in Tech series with Capital One, where I have been taking a look behind the scenes at how they are using technology, innovation, and design to create a better banking experience. In my last post I spoke to Naveed Anwar who runs Capital One’s developer community partnerships […]

Filed Under: Bank Innovation, FinTech, Strategy

Banking on Blockchain

November 9, 2016 by JP Nicols

Last week I attended an IBM blockchain discussion at Rise New York, featuring Jalak Jobanputra, Founder and Managing Partner of Future\Perfect Ventures and Brigid McDermott, Vice President of Blockchain Business Development & Ecosystem for IBM, and moderated by Todd Pruzan, Editorial Director for Ogilvy. You can catch the video of the event here, and also […]

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Building Better Bank-Fintech Partnerships

November 7, 2016 by JP Nicols

Talk of banks and fintech companies partnering together has increased dramatically in the past year.  There have definitely been some interesting partnerships announced, particularly with some of the marketplace lenders, various blockchain projects and some artificial intelligence driven bots. Most are in stages that are too early for a full analysis at this point. There […]

Filed Under: Bank Innovation, Leadership, Strategy

Improving the Consumer Payment Experience

November 1, 2016 by JP Nicols

I’m continuing my look behind the scenes at Capital One to see how they are using technology, innovation, and design to create a better banking experience. Last week at Money20/20, I spent some time with Tom Poole, Managing Vice President for Digital at Capital One. I heard Tom speak on a panel called “The Role of […]

Filed Under: Bank Innovation, FinTech, Leadership, Strategy

Designing a Better Banking Experience

October 27, 2016 by JP Nicols

This week at Money20/20 in Las Vegas I spent some time behind the scenes at Capital One to see how they are using technology, innovation, and design to create a better banking experience. I sat down with Scott Zimmer, Capital One’s Global Head of Design, to focus on how design is taking on a growing […]

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Bankers Are From Mars…

September 6, 2016 by JP Nicols

It is not news here, or anywhere else, but bankers and fintech entrepreneurs are from different planets. They are just wired differently. Just a few years ago, all of the fintech companies wanted to put traditional financial institutions out of business. Disrupt the industry!, they said. Despite the fact that we still have over 6,000 banks in the U.S. alone, […]

Filed Under: Bank Innovation, FinTech, Strategy

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