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Cost Containment Strategies in Banking

Category: Cost Containment Strategies in Banking


How to survive the banking core-system-provider limitation blues – without changing your core (again)

Finally—a way to liberate your bank from “core” competitive restraints with digital transformation bots A recent survey of community-bank CEOs asked them to choose the biggest threat to their growth prospects. Can you guess what it was? Think it was competition from other banks? Nope. Think it was competition from non-bank companies? Nope. Think it …

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Lean Principles in Banking – Commercial Lending Operations Transformation Without New Technology

This case study of a recent lean initiative implemented by The Lab Consulting concerns the commercial and small-business lending businesses of a Top 5 Canadian bank. When their Executive Vice President of Commercial Banking—our sponsor—reached out to us, the bank’s market share for commercial lending had been shrinking for 16 consecutive quarters. Certainly, competition had …

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Improvements from Start-to-Finish

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