Presentation at the BAI Payments Connect Conference, March, 2010. Survey of bankers to understand implications of new changes in Reg E, impact on earnings, and future changes in Checking Account revenue.
How Banks will Generate Revenue on Payments and Checking in the New Era
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BAI Payments Connect Conference
Moderator:
David Kerstein, Peak Performance Consulting Group
Panelists:
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James Allen, Broadway Bank
Alex Calicchia, MidSouth Bank
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Dominic Venturo, US Bank
12. Who will be the winners in the new environment?
Agree or Strongly Agree
Community Banks
Credit Unions
Large Banks
Non-banks (e.g. PayPal)
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%
Survey Comments:
“There’s room for everyone”
“Execution is key, not type of institution”
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Jimmy – expecting mid-high teens, but all depends on success of opt-inAlex – it’s not just percentage, but absolute $ amount. Some states, such as Louisiana, have higher percentage of HH with lower income. Even though we are primarily business bank, nevertheless we garner relatively high deposit fees compared to peers in other states because of demographic/income makeup of market. So bigger impact on bottom line, even though percentage may be same.Dominic – Rick Davis recently quoted as saying he expects opt in to be low. Any comments?
Any comments on 60% Opt In?
Alex – CEO particularly active in legislative affairs, don’t see Dodd Bill passing. But so much activity in congress that hard to predict. Expect there will be further restrictions of some type – more likely by regulatory change rather than congressional action. Worrisome issue – short time for comment, changes will come quickly. Need to be flexible and keep reading the tea leaves.Jimmy – recent OCC exam clearly focused on OD/NSF. Still developing their approach, but can expect much more regulatory focus, which will shape how we deal with this issue.
Typical response – “looking at all options now”Jimmy – talk about discussions with regional managers and staff, need to understand and articulate impact, developing scenarios and role playsDominic – already out in the market talking to customers. Need to work this over several month period.
Jimmy – cross sell efforts critical to build relationship depth, share of walletAlex – surprised more people aren’t thinking about eliminating free checking
Discussion item – why the gap? Possible comments (trade off between us so there is discussion):Highly publicized comments by TCF, long time Totally Free Checking bank, that this will kill free checking.Press reports that fees are increasingWishful thinking? We won’t do it but and will reap competitive benefitSurprised more aren’t focused on expense side
Alex – talk about how community banks have strong advantage?Jimmy – reinforce it is really all about executionDominic – big banks have some advantages in turn of innovation, scope of distribution, segmentation.
Alex – great setup for your Oracle implementationDominic – reinforces need for better market segmentation to get close to the customer
I’ll talk about TD and TCF.Identity Theft – ranks high consumer surveys. Alex and Jimmy, you both offer these type of products (you both are Affinion customers). Possible comments: fits well with certain segment of customersExpect to place a greater emphasis on this in the futureEarly Access – Dominic, US Bank offers this as well. Comments: encouraged? Too early to tell? Still experimenting? (press reports on 5/3 said “20% of eligible customers had signed up for it” but no comments on usage)I’ll set up Compass/PNC for next slide
Jimmy and Alex – please trade off comments, something like:Interesting positioning. Build your own account gives people reason to opt in for additional services. Customers up-sell themselves? Makes the bank more flexible. More complicated, so takes more training of sales force, clearer customer communicationsDominic – possible set up for next slide: interesting way to reconfigure Free Checking, but ultimately we’ll need to readjust “checking” to be more “cash management” account. Who writes checks any more?