Published by Corporate Insight on 04 Apr 2008 at 11:47 am
Weekend Reading
This week’s news roundup includes:
- With Non-Compete Expired, Ameriprise Charges Ahead (InvestmentNews) - Ameriprise to launch their own credit card now that the non-compete with American Express has expired.
- The Four Things a Service Business Must Get Right (Harvard Business Review) - An excellent read for managers in the financial services industry. On a number of occasions, the article refers to Commerce Bank for best practices.
- Mobile Banking: This Time for Real (BAI Banking Strategies) - It would appear that there is more momentum behind mobile banking this time around.
- Dead Tree Medium No Longer: For Many Marketers Print Outperforms Digital (Knowledge@Wharton) - Thanks to variable-data printing, companies can now tap purchase-history databases to design, create and print entirely personalized catalogs that cross-sell products and services to individual consumers.
- The Day $2 Billion Walked out the Door (Fortune) - A review of the recent bank panic that swept E*TRADE and how the firm continues to cope.
- What’s Wrong With Wall St. - and How to Fix It (Fortune) - Fortune’s take on the problems in financial services.
