Alyson Clarke

A modern CRM is core to connecting organizational silos to drive customer and business value. Today, CRMs are integrating AI and adding intelligent agents to boost productivity and deliver personalized customer experiences at scale. This makes modern CRM an indispensable tool for financial services firms aiming to enhance customer experience, streamline operations, and drive growth. […]

Banks need to get ready for a major challenge in 2025: a simultaneous decline in customer experience and worsening profitability. But fear not, because there is a solution to this double whammy: innovation.

In the rapidly evolving financial landscape, banks are facing challenges that require them to adapt and innovate. But amidst all these changes, the importance of trust remains constant. Trust is the foundation upon which successful banking relationships are built, and it will continue to be a crucial factor in shaping the future of the industry. […]

Once again, the banking industry is on the cusp of transformative changes. AI and generative AI (genAI) technologies have the potential to enhance customer relationships, deliver personalized digital experiences, augment customer service, and combat fraud. But they also have the potential to shift the mindset of banking from a product-centric to a relationship-centric approach and […]

A focus on fundamentals such as empathy, dependability, and accountability will equip companies to weather a tumultuous year ahead.

US financial services brands are struggling to earn high levels of customer trust. Forrester’s Financial Services Customer Trust Index (FS Trust Index) revealed that customer trust in US financial services firms in 2023 was relatively weak and largely unchanged from 2022. Only US banks managed a measurable improvement in average trust scores, and even that […]

How well did US financial services firms rank in terms of customers’ trust in 2022? Our new research reveals the scores and rankings of 54 US brands across auto and home insurance, banking, credit card issuers, and investment firms, analyzed as part of Forrester’s US Financial Services Trust Index, 2022. Overall, customer trust was relatively […]

Winning trust is imperative to financial services firms' success. Yet it's lacking, Forrester’s Financial Services Customer Trust Index shows.

Banken müssen sich auf ein schwierigeres wirtschaftliches Umfeld und eine mögliche globale Rezession im Jahr 2023 vorbereiten.

Découvrez dans cet article les 5 prévisions clés identifiées par nos experts analystes pour le secteur bancaire en 2023.

Inflation, rising interest rates, and the war in Ukraine are creating a challenging landscape for the banking sector, yet wise firms will invest with the long term in mind.

Banks around the world are bracing themselves for tougher economic conditions amidst record inflation, rising interest rates, and the war in Ukraine. Forrester has been tracking shifts in retail consumer banking to help banks better understand how to adapt to — and capitalize on — these shifts. Here are some of the key trends Forrester […]

For a large multichannel bank, a 1-point improvement in its CX Index™ score can lead to an incremental $123 million in revenue. For a direct bank, it can lead to an incremental $92 million in revenue. Discover the results of the 2022 CX Index™ for US banks.

As custodians and lenders of money, banks cannot exist without their customers’ trust. But why do so few banks around the world actually track and measure it? We’ve examined how banks themselves look at trust and, even more importantly, what they actually do about it.

The “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) market is hotter than ever. With a strong presence on major retailers’ websites and increasing brand awareness among consumers, BNPL is receiving growing attention from the world’s top banks, lenders, and credit card providers. While the concept is nearly a century old, Forrester has been tracking the “reemergence” of […]

Each year, my colleague Andrew Hogan and I review mobile websites of top Canadian banks to understand how effectively banks are meeting customers’ expectations, specifically when it comes to finding, researching, and applying for a chequing account. We review functionality and observe users as they try to complete their goals. In this year’s report, we […]

Each year, my colleague Andrew Hogan and I review mobile websites of top US banks to understand how effectively banks are meeting customers’ expectations when it comes to finding, researching, and applying for a checking account. We review functionality and observe users as they try to complete their tasks. In this year’s report, we evaluated […]

Square has announced it will purchase Afterpay for US$29 billion. As an Australian, I have to admit a bit of pride in the Aussie-built Afterpay taking its place on the global stage with this deal, the largest in Australian corporate history. It seems everyone is getting into the buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) boom. What was started by […]