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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.
Channel Switching Is Driven Largely By Security And Support Issues
Many US customers use multiple channels when buying financial services products, crossing channels during their path to purchase. Among online adults, 41% of financial product applicants research...
Auto Insurance Purchasers Frequently Do Not Know About Online Applications
The number of US online consumers applying for auto insurance over the Internet has more than tripled in the past five years. With such staggering growth, auto insurance eBusiness managers must...
Many North Americans Have Not Applied Online But Would Consider Doing So
eBusiness professionals at financial firms must understand not only who is already buying financial products on the Web but also who is the most likely to do so in the future. Forrester identified...
Profiling The Financial Attitudes And Behavior Of US Online Teenagers
There are roughly 20 million Teen Millennials — individuals between 13 and 17 years old — in the US. As consumers, Teen Millennials tend to be loyal to brands but mistrustful of financial...
As consumer adoption of social media rises and alters the relationship between companies and consumers, eBusiness professionals at banks must understand how their online customers use and interact...
ATMs are an important but often neglected channel. Eighty-five percent of US bank customers use ATMs, and one in three uses one at least weekly. Today's consumers use ATMs to make deposits, check...
Many Sources Are Used, But Financial Advisors Are Considered Most Helpful
Less than half of US online adults have done retirement research. Consumers who are worried about having enough money to retire are less likely to have done research; investors and older consumers...
Edward Jones, Independent Advisors, And Vanguard Rank Highest
More than half of all US investors are worried that they won't have enough money to retire comfortably. When we ask clients to rate investment firms' ability to prepare them for retirement, Edward...
More than 9 million US adults have used a comparison Web site to research a financial product, and one-third of US online financial researchers say they trust product comparison sites. US online...
Few Canadians Are Interested In Mobile Banking; Fewer Still Use It
Half of Canadian online consumers are aware of mobile banking, but just 1% currently use the service, and only 3% more report any interest in doing so in the future. What's stopping online Canadians...
Top Firms Include Investors Group And RBC Wealth Management
With nearly 5 million Canadians headed into retirement in the next 10 years — and younger Canadians beginning to plan for their own retirements — eBusiness and channel strategy...