by Kirsten Longnecker | Nov 18, 2025 | Articles, Blog, Business, Marketing, News, Uncategorized, Updates
What if the key to scaling your financial institution’s deposits, reaching new customer segments, and strengthening your brand isn’t about the shiny-and-new or the “tired”-but-true, but revisiting one of the most overlooked yet successful retail products?...
by Kirsten Longnecker | Oct 29, 2025 | Articles, Branding, Business, News, Uncategorized, Updates
There’s healthy skepticism, and there’s just plain skepticism. The jadedness that comes from feeling taken advantage of, dismissed, or mistreated. It used to be a quality highly correlated with Gen Xers, but it seems more and more that consumers are skeptical of most...
by Kirsten Longnecker | Oct 6, 2025 | Articles, Blog, Branding, Business, Marketing, News, Press, Uncategorized
Why Inherited Business Owners Won’t Stay Loyal to Their Parents’ Bank Imagine you’re the only child of a family business with a provenance in your community, and the plan all along has been for you to inherit and take on the legacy. You’re looking forward to running...
by Kirsten Longnecker | Sep 22, 2025 | Articles, Blog, Branding, Business, Marketing, News, Press, Uncategorized, Updates
What Gen X and Boomers Are Getting Wrong About Saving If we were competing in pub trivia on the question “Which generations drive the most deposit growth for banks and credit unions?” I would bet most fintechs would say “Gen Z and Millennials,” and most bankers would...
by Kirsten Longnecker | Aug 19, 2025 | Articles, Blog, Business, From the Field, Frontpage, Marketing, News, Press, Uncategorized
When $84 trillion changes generational hands, many of whom are small business owners, will your financial institution be ready to help? $84.4 trillion of generational wealth is not a hypothetical. It’s the forecasted amount of wealth moving from Boomers to Millennials...