Like many businesses across the U.S., community and regional banks face challenges stemming from economic fluctuations, regulatory reforms, and shifting consumer preferences. To navigate these headwinds, they’re leveraging their unique strengths, such as personalized customer interactions and local market insights, and implementing innovative technologies like the nCino Consumer Banking Solution.
In a world where the financial industry continues to evolve rapidly, financial institutions need to do the same. One way to maintain your edge is by embracing a balance of automation and augmentation. This approach enhances operational efficiency, optimizes risk management, and revolutionizes the experience for both banker and client.
In the evolving landscape of commercial banking, merging traditional services with modern technology is essential.
VeraBank, a community bank headquartered in Henderson, TX, partnered with nCino to modernize lending processes and streamline employee and customer experiences.
New Zealand’s leading business bank selects nCino cloud-based platform to exceed customers’ growing expectations.
In 2021, the number of small businesses in the United States reached 32.5 million, making up 99.9% of total US businesses. In other words, there’s nothing “small” about small businesses.However, the small business banking experience can be fragmented and often requires in-person interactions for simple banking needs, such as opening an account. nCino is excited to make the first step in the small business banking experience even easier with our Business Deposit Account Opening solution.nCino’s Business Deposit Account Opening Solution enhances the small business experience by meeting the expectations of small business owners while solving the main issues businesses and financial institutions (FIs) face in the account opening process. These challenges include:
As consumer expectations for simpler, more convenient, and personalized financial services increase, Financial Institutions (FIs) must find new, innovative strategies to create user-friendly digital experiences. Here are four ways nCino’s Deposit Account Opening Solution can level up your FI’s deposit account opening experience:1. Elevate Your Identity Decisioning and Funding ProcessesAre your FI’s identity decisioning and funding processes cumbersome? Do they result in significant abandoned applications? Do your employees lack compliance controls and transparency? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, we’ve got good news for you.
Today’s consumers no longer compare banks solely with other banks. Instead, they’re weighing the convenience, speed, and personalization of their financial institution against the service they receive from companies such as Netflix, Uber, and Amazon. And in many cases, traditional banks limited by cumbersome manual processes simply can’t keep up.This is perhaps most apparent in the deposit account opening process, where asking a customer to enter sensitive financial information and then wait up to three days to verify micro-deposits can feel slow, frustrating and full of friction.
Bank Independent, a fast-growing community bank, adopted nCino’s Bank Operating System to improve efficiency, communication, and visibility. Learn more about the Bank’s accomplishments with nCino.
For years, financial services experts emphasized the need for financial institutions (FIs) to adopt technology to keep pace with changing customer expectations and improve organizational efficiencies. Yet many FIs are slow to show progress when it comes to digital transformation.The Covid-19 pandemic proved to be a catalyst event, forcing FIs to quickly reevaluate their ability to provide financial support and services through their existing systems. As people were forced to bank primarily online, the FIs already equipped to serve customers digitally, or those able to quickly adapt, fared better than those using antiquated, disparate systems. Many of the digital-forward FIs were able to maintain operations and even gain new customers despite the challenging environment.To truly create a holistic digital experience that meets customer expectations, FIs must consider the following when forming a strategy for approaching digital transformation: people, process, and technology.
Community bank chooses nCino’s cloud-based, single platform to streamline lending, account opening, and client engagement.Armstrong Bank has chosen to deploy nCino's Bank Operating System to streamline its lending, account opening and client engagement processes. By adopting a single digital platform, the Bank aims to enhance customer service, improve efficiency and provide a seamless and personalized experience to its clients.
Sunrise Credit Union, headquartered in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, serves the Parkland and Western Manitoba regions with over 20 branches. Established in 2008 through a merger of five legacy credit unions, Sunrise offers personal, agriculture and business accounts to best serve its variety of members. Kelly Scott, Vice President of Information Technology, is committed to the digital transformation efforts happening at Sunrise Credit Union. Sunrise adopted nCino prior to the COVID-19 pandemic to replace disparate and disjointed systems and improve the experiences of both its members and its employees. With the nCino Bank Operating System, Sunrise can create one streamlined workflow through a single cloud-based platform.
Digital account opening is a top priority at many financial institutions, for good reasons. With loan-to-deposit ratios above or approaching 100%, banks and credit unions can’t afford to lose out on potential deposits due to ineffective or inefficient account opening processes. A “friction-free” process is essential to the digital account opening experience but achieving this goal may be harder than it looks for institutions jumping into the DAO waters.“Not long ago, most financial institutions basically had the same digital account acquisition capabilities. Not anymore. Leading institutions are pulling away. Banks and credit unions that don’t provide end-to-end digital account opening must upgrade quickly.”
– Cornerstone Advisors
The imperative for digital account opening is high due to competitive pressures, but mistakes in implementation can hinder success. Financial institutions should avoid missteps such as underestimating integration complexity, neglecting marketing needs, failing to cross-sell across business lines, separating application processing from onboarding, and not continuously monitoring and improving the process.
