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2008

March WHICH FINANCIAL SERVICES INSTITUTIONS ARE MOST ATTRACTIVE TO HISPANICS?
February Fed Rate Cuts: Short-Term Effect on the Longstanding Home Loans Slump
January $460M Auto Insurance Opportunity: Massachusetts Opens up its Doors

2007

November Online Social Networks Drive Significant Traffic to Bank Websites
October Discover Leverages Young Consumers to Outpace Competitors
September Is High Yield Checking Gaining Market Traction?
August Is Obopay On Track to Become the Next PayPal?
July Foreclosure.com: Who's seeking riches in sub-prime's wake
April The (re)Birth of Mobile Banking
March Bargain Seekers Hunt While Consumers Dismiss Foreclosures
February Is Countrywide a Good Partner For Bank Of America?
January Online Mortgage Shoppers Find Value In Home Appraisal Tools

2006

December Can Free Trades Create a Bank of America Free-For-All?
November Do "strings" stop shoppers from opening high-yield savings?
September Reaching Online Traders at Leading Financial News Sites
August Will You Spend 15 Minutes To Save 15% Or More?; WAMU Banks On High Yield Savings
July Citibank e-Savings Accrues Interest From Baby Boomers; Why Do Consumers Abandon Online Applications
June Banks Fail to Cross Sell Services Online
April New study finds that three out of four consumers who use online retirement tools are likely to take action; Citibank e-Savings Attracts Competitors' Online Bankers
March Keeping the Change Helps Keep Bank of America Customers from ING Direct; WAMU Has Checking Product Situation
February Rates Beat IPod at Driving Home Equity Applications; Sometimes a Site Redesign Can Go in the Wrong Direction
January Local Search - An Increasingly Attractive Referral Source; ShareBuilder Builds Share

2005

December American Express "Wish List" Promotion Attracts Few Cardmember; Aggregators' Dominance in Home Equity Expected to Continue in 2006
October Online applicants for mortgage, refinance and home equity at leading demand aggregators and direct lenders were up 20% quarter-to-quarter and up 71% year-over-year in the month of September.
August Home loan lenders with highly visible advertising campaigns receive halo benefits that help lower their paid search expenses.
July One in five MBNA online account holders are also online bankers at Bank of America, a small overlap considering Bank of America captures ...
June Direct lenders working with aggregators don't cannibalize their online marketing - only 8% of direct lender applicants also apply with aggregators.
May Compete surveyed buyers researching on sites such as HomeGain, ZipRealty, RealtyTrac and Housevalues.com to find out how much influence these realty sites have on home loan applications.
March Cost-effectively staffing call centers in tandem with the ups and downs of the market is a challenge. Countrywide has taken a creative approach to drive more business to its center. Compete analyzed Countrywide's integrated marketing campaign.
February Too often, banks do not give the necessary attention to their closest customers - their online bankers. Compete has found that in the absence of this attention, bankers can't count on online customers to think of them first when...

2004

June Competitive entry into Manhattan and consumer attitudes toward switching banks highlight opportunities and threats for incumbents.
May Retail banking consumers plan to use the online channel for product research at the expense of branch and telephone; LendingTree attempts to grow purchase volume with real estate listings.
March Bank of America's potential deposit value loss to ING in California exceeded $300 million from December 2003 to February 2004.