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Peter serves eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals. He specializes in serving financial services customers through online, mobile, and other remote channels. He has helped banks, brokerages, insurers, and other financial providers improve their online and mobile services, and plan their online and mobile strategies. Peter works with firms to better understand market opportunities and meet client needs. His recent reports include "Mobile Channel Strategy: An Overview." During his four years at Forrester, Peter has worked on projects that sized the market for mobile financial services, improved firms' online banking functionality, segmented existing customers and prospects, and quantified the value of digital services. In addition, Peter co-developed Forrester's mobile banking and mobile investing ROI models.
Prior to becoming an analyst, Peter was a researcher at Forrester. In that role, he developed Forrester's mobile financial services ROI model and was a key contributor to updating, maintaining, and applying the Forrester Website User Experience and Functionality Benchmark (WSB) methodology.
Peter holds dual M.S. degrees in advertising and applied communications research from Boston University, as well as a B.A. from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
Forrester Evaluates The Four Largest Banks' Retail Mobile Offerings
With customer expectations rising and substantial business at stake, digital banking strategy teams know they need to keep improving their mobile services. This is one of three reports that detail...
Benchmarks: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook
We used our Mobile Banking Functionality Benchmark methodology to evaluate the retail mobile banking offerings of 15 retail banks in in North America, Western Europe, and Australia across more than...
In The Long Term, Cross-Channel Measurement Is An Enterprisewide Concern, But In The Near Term, eBusiness Must Act Now
eBusiness and channel strategy professionals have a lot on their plates these days: Consumers are moving across channels for sales and service, spanning digital touchpoints like Twitter and public...
Executive Overview: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook
Mobile banking is the most important strategic change in retail banking in more than a decade. Yet too many banks have taken a haphazard approach to mobile strategy, rolling out apps and features...
The Mobile Banking Imperative
This report, written for eBusiness and channel strategy professionals, is also relevant to CIOs and other IT leaders. CIOs at every bank face major changes as consumers move their banking activities...
Citi Moves To The Top With Added Functionality And A New Look
Digital banking teams want to know where they stack up against competitors when it comes to their secure websites and other digital features — everything from mobile functionality to customer...

Firms Continue To Enhance Core Functionality But Lack New Digital Banking Features
This report details how the secure websites of the six largest retail banks in Canada stack up against each other across six categories and 66 individual criteria measuring the banks' online...
Tools And Technologies: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook
Even the best mobile strategy can be a victim of poor execution. Managing technology is hard enough, but as new phone features and capabilities crop up seemingly every day, navigating the ever...

Vision: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook
This report gives eBusiness and channel strategy professionals at banks a vision for what the future of mobile banking will be and why it is critical to develop a clear mobile strategy focused on...

This is one of two reports that detail the findings from Forrester's annual ranking of the digital sales offerings of the 12 largest banks in North America. The report covers six major Canadian banks...
This is one of two reports that detail the findings from Forrester's annual ranking of the digital sales offerings of the 12 largest banks in North America. The report covers six major US banks and...

Landscape: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook
Mobile banking continues to gather momentum across developed countries, fueled by rising smartphone use and the steadily improving supply of mobile banking from banks in North America, Europe, and...

RBC And CIBC Lead With Critical Functionality
Despite the rapid rise of mobile and tablet banking, secure websites remain the No. 1 digital touchpoint for credit cardholders interacting with their providers. Before eBusiness professionals at...
As mobile adoption increases, eBusiness and channel strategy professionals are challenged to determine how these devices integrate with their existing sales and service channels. It is imperative...

Discover Financial Services Takes The Top Spot With Robust Functionality And Strong User Experience
Despite the rapid rise of mobile and tablet banking, secure websites remain the No. 1 digital touchpoint for credit cardholders interacting with their providers. Before eBusiness professionals at...

Forrester Evaluates The Top Four Banking Providers' Client-Facing Mobile Offerings
Mobile banking adoption is growing at a rapid rate, and banking providers continue to invest more and more resources in their mobile services. We applied our Mobile Banking Functionality Benchmark...

Advanced PFM Goes Beyond The Firm's Existing Website Offering, And The eBusiness Team Applies The Lessons To The Website
In July 2011, Citibank officially launched its first ever tablet banking app, but the true breakthrough took place five months earlier, when eBusiness leaders at the bank began the process of...
eBusiness Teams At Canada's Top Banks Make Major Improvements
Forrester conducted our annual evaluation of the secure online banking websites of the six largest Canadian banks — Bank of Montreal, CIBC, National Bank of Canada, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC),...
Making The Business Case For Mobile Efforts At Wealth Management Firms
Mobile has become a high priority for eBusiness teams at wealth management and investment firms. In the US, the proportion of online adults who use the mobile channel to manage their investments rose...
Marked Improvements Across All Firms, With Wells Fargo Leading
Forrester conducted our annual evaluation of the secure online banking websites of the six largest US banks — Bank of America, Chase, Citibank, PNC Bank, U.S. Bank, and Wells Fargo —...
Firm "Electronifies" Cash Transactions To Enhance Existing PFM Tool
In February 2009, Discover Financial Services introduced its Spend Analyzer, an online personal financial management (PFM) tool that lets clients track and categorize their spending. Adoption was...
Adoption Of Mobile Banking Is Heating Up And Portends Future Use Of Mobile Investing And Insurance Services
Most of the "big five" banking providers have now launched mobile offerings, and clients are responding. Consumer adoption of mobile banking in Canada has risen sharply from just 1% in 2008 to 9% at...
We Apply Forrester's STEP Methodology To The eBusiness Solutions Evaluation Process For Financial Services Providers
eBusiness executives at financial services providers have many roles, and one of the more critical is choosing technology solutions that meet their firm's technology-agnostic business problems....
How eBusiness Leaders Should Approach Mobile As A Sales And Service Channel
Across the globe, the mobile channel is growing at a rapid rate. eBusiness and channel strategy leaders at B2B and B2C firms are at the forefront: 94% of eBusiness managers we surveyed are either...
With The Launch Of iNomineo, Generali Focuses On A Major Revenue Source
Generali France's iNomineo app for the iPhone offers financial advisors mobile access to client information, details of clients' holdings and past transactions, and graphic illustrations of market...