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Issue 3 - March 2008
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Cornerstone Report
Mid Size Banks Are Stuck

New Study Challenges Bankers to Break Out of 'Static Game'

cornerstone-report.gifThe just released Cornerstone Report 2007: Benchmarks and Best Practices for Mid-Size Banks urges bankers to recognize how misaligned the industry has become and implores individual banks to break out of a "current closed loop that will go nowhere."

Although banks have become more efficient, they have done little to open up substantial sources of future revenue and growth, The Cornerstone Report states. ...
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Bank Social Marketing
To Facebook, or Not to Facebook - That is the Question

facebook.gifThe banking blogs are on fire debating the usefulness of Facebook as a marketing tool for banks and credit unions.


The discussion surrounding the social networking website and how it can impact your financial institution is creating quite a stir.  Facebook is an online social networking website that allows its users to create pages about their company.  The social networking revolution is growing and the number of users grows exponetially every day.  Can your bank grow its
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Online Deposit Rate Report
State of Rates: March 2008
online-deposit-rates.png Online banks have reacted strongly to the 175 points in rate cuts by the Federal Reserve with large scale reductions in rates on their checking, money market, savings, and short-term certificates of deposit products. Mid-term and longer-term CD rates have also been lowered in response to an extended bond market rally which has pushed Treasury yields to three-year lows.

The 5.00% deposit rates which were commonplace at the end of 2007 have all but evaporated with only KeyDirect and Capital O
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