Currency Alliance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In this new content series, we show what a world-beating loyalty program would look like in four different sectors, and discuss the brands currently showing the potential to build that ‘world-beating’ program. and changing consumer behavior is impacting the legacy loyalty model, and setting the stage for new leaders to emerge.

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Currency Alliance

MAY 9, 2022

To help businesses on this path, we have decided to share our experience in building an API-centric loyalty platform over the years. We explain how the technology differs from legacy solutions, and how an API-first approach solves the specific business challenges and enables the marketing goals that it was built to achieve. .

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Recognizing loyalty program members at the Point of Sale (POS) has been challenging for over 30 years. The result is that it can be difficult for a retailer to deliver a smooth customer experience when identifying their own loyalty program members, or customers in partner loyalty programs, at the POS.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 7, 2024

Deloitte Shares Loyalty Trends and Best Practices for 2024 by Alicia Esposito (Retail TouchPoints) To drive customer retention and loyalty, most brands and retailers continue to rely on purchase discounts (77%) and loyalty program points (61%), according to Retail TouchPoints research. I agree with the title.

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Oracle

OCTOBER 10, 2019

This is a preview of the ebook “Moments That Matter: A New Customer Experience Roadmap for Financial Services “ Financial services technology isn’t just helping brands gather better data about customers. Here are 4 trends in financial services technology that are redefining CX in these important life moments.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

A 2018 Collinson study reported that 66% of financial services professionals say their bank “does not understand why customers are loyal or have a strategy to strengthen customer relationships”[i]. People are more likely to leave their spouse than their bank[ii], so it might seem that banks have no case to answer. Extra what?

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 12, 2020

This presentation is about driving customer engagement, and how the loyalty industry is transforming in order to engage with the mid-tail and long-tail customer. Loyalty programs must evolve to keep customers engaged. Every business needs a loyalty strategy, but not every business needs a loyalty points program.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

This fee is commonly how financial services brands have funded their loyalty rewards for at least the past decade. So how should New Zealand’s banks and brands respond, and how should other brands collaborate with partners to reduce dependency on any single source of funding? Of course, this has happened before in other jurisdictions.

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CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The Changing Landscape of Payments The payment landscape has witnessed a profound transformation driven by technology and evolving consumer preferences. This disruption has prompted traditional banks and financial institutions to adapt and innovate to remain competitive.

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West Monroe

MAY 31, 2019

Last year, I wrote about conversational interfaces and how they have the potential to disrupt business and technology paradigms over the coming years. We’ve seen interest from our financial services clients in these types of use cases, where progressive firms are making investments in automation technologies like Machine Learning and RPA.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 11, 2023

For this reason, only very large partners end up collaborating even though the loyalty program members engage with thousands of medium or smaller potential partners on a daily basis. This is a major opportunity cost for every loyalty program. In this case, the contract is with the third party (i.e.,

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Because each customer segment will respond differently to available loyalty incentives, tailoring the customer experience by segment across channels is essential to maximize ROI. Millions of longstanding loyalty programs are testament to the fact that loyalty marketing can be optimized for the benefit of all stakeholders.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

During 2023, brands will make it easier for more customers to realize value from loyalty program participation. This will help them engage many more customers – particularly in the mid-to-long tail: previously not seen as a valuable target for loyalty marketing, but now recognized as a leading source of incremental revenue.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 31, 2022

A recent article on PhocusWire helpfully outlined a range of security vulnerabilities common to loyalty programs. Some of them were matters of procedure and staff training – which are clearly important – but many were technological vulnerabilities which can be avoided by using modern tools and systems.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

It is the most powerful, yet under appreciated module (or tool) in a loyalty marketing stack of software. The loyalty rules engine is the module that enables the types of promotions that are familiar from every major loyalty program. This would not require much of a rules engine – since your program has no variation.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 21, 2019

Loyalty systems were some of the first marketing technology, dating back 35 years. Making the same progress in loyalty has been much more difficult. The typical incumbent loyalty technology platform comprises five core modules: CRM/Analytics Platform. Points Bank. Loyalty Rules Engine.

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BirdEye

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

It offers features like visual marketing tools and loyalty program integration to enhance the customer experience. Yotpo’s major features include: Generates and leverages customer reviews Visual marketing features for social proof Loyalty program integration Smart algorithm for targeting Comprehensive analytics suite 7.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Loyalty partnerships with complementary brands are the best way to create additional value, for customers and for your business. Depending on the maturity of your loyalty program, you may already have some program partners, or be a partner in somebody else’s program. I’m a case in point.

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Magellan Solutions

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Bank Loans. Bank Loans offer easier and flexible payment methods and loan terms but it is important to keep in mind that bank loans have very strict requirements. Customer loyalty programs. We have constant updates with our technology and best practices. Usually, the source of financing comes from: 1.

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BirdEye

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

AI-driven customer experience models employ artificial intelligence technologies to help businesses provide personalized, seamless, efficient, and improved customer interactions. Many businesses have also begun incorporating generative AI technologies such as Chat-GPT, Dall-E, Midjourney, or Bard into their processes.

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SurveySensum

AUGUST 24, 2023

This approach not only saves time but also boosts user confidence, reinforcing Microsoft’s role as a provider of user-friendly technology solutions. Seamless Account Management with Virtual Assistant – Bank of America Leveraging the power of cutting-edge technologies such as AI chatbots, Virtual Assistants, etc.

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Interactions

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

To summarize, we’ve got more experience and technology rolled into our IVA than most other AI assistants in the market today. Interactions IVA works with your existing technology stack instead of forcing you into another ecosystem. We play nice with others. The collaboration we have is consultative. We’re not just a vendor.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 7, 2021

AI is important, but still hard to harness – so it may still be years before anything truly significant is happening in loyalty with AI. I encourage you to keep experimenting because the constraint with AI is not the technology, but the lack of sufficient or clean data – two aspects covered by our Loyalty Imperatives.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 19, 2022

It has the potential to address a lot of business challenges, and enable many forms of elusive innovation in loyalty marketing. The biggest opportunities for loyalty programs relate to operating more efficiently to reduce cost, and improving personalization. Using AI to improve profitability of pricing and promotions.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

What is strange today, is that most brands have evolved their public-facing ecommerce platforms into dynamic, content-rich, and personalized shopping experiences, while their loyalty program redemption catalog may not have changed in ten years, leaving it looking static with minimal appeal. Management. It often has a great CX and UI.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

What is strange today, is that most brands have evolved their public-facing ecommerce platforms into dynamic, content-rich, and personalized shopping experiences, while their loyalty program redemption catalog may not have changed in ten years, leaving it looking static with minimal appeal. Management. It often has a great CX and UI.

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SurveySparrow

JUNE 28, 2023

Personalized Banking – Barclays Barclays Bank has successfully employed personalization to enhance its customers’ banking experience. Thus, this personal touch enhances user engagement, and increases the probability of users discovering and listening to new music, thereby fostering brand loyalty.

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2020 Research

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In this article, we’ll walk through five takeaways we found in our 2022 US Banking Industry Loyalty Report , so you can better understand how to maintain brand trust: Share the “Why” Behind Your Business’ Purpose. Do not expect loyalty from your customers — earn it. Don’t Expect Your Customers to Be Loyal. The Bottom Line.

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Currency Alliance

MAY 19, 2021

Modifying legacy loyalty technology, to enable consistent and relevant engagement across the expanding number of customer-facing platforms, is becoming cost-prohibitive. The only efficient path forward is to put headless technology in front of your legacy systems – or, to migrate altogether. Enter: headless platforms.

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Currency Alliance

JULY 16, 2020

A common method to enhance customer understanding is partnering with other companies through loyalty programs. Let’s look at common spots where loyalty investments are most vulnerable to loss, the benefits of collaboration models and the three best opportunities for loyalty spending. But this reasoning is outdated.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 20, 2016

Here are three great companies, Amazon, Southwest Airlines and TD Bank (I wouldn’t have guessed this last one), that are relentless when it comes to being customer focused. The big take away is the level beyond customer loyalty, which is desire. The concept of desire is loyalty on steroids. Great article!

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 5, 2019

Currency Alliance was invited to participate along with Dan Truscott, Head of Business Development, Loyalty at Visa , and Iain Pringle of consultancy New World Loyalty. Click here to watch debate on the following topics: How Can Customer Experience Drive Loyalty? Loyalty Coalitions are Morphing into Marketplaces.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

2021 will be another year in the long-term journey to become customer-centric, balance the economics of loyalty programs to deliver more value to customers, and ensure the right systems are in place to reduce dependencies on the IT department or vendors. Rebalancing loyalty program economics.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Agile technology businesses, meanwhile, take advantage with gusto of the retail establishment’s sluggishness in embracing change. You can observe this in the last 20 years of Tesco’s growth, which obediently correlates to the Bank of England base rate. A 2015 PwC report sounded the death-knell for no-fees banking in the UK. [ix].

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

The casual observer at last night’s ceremony (and the professional one alike) would have been struck by the many extraordinary, showpiece technological achievements which were made in the past year. Gamification and personalization have come on leaps and bounds in loyalty to supplement points and rewards.

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Oracle

APRIL 30, 2019

SmarterCX presents the Smarter Demos series , a 2-minutes-or-less look at some of the most innovative CX technologies and how they work. We’re all familiar with loyalty programs, but did you know that you can earn Bitcoin while you shop? Bitcoin lets you be your own bank and take control of your money.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

But there remain some fundamental things that loyalty programs need to achieve to weather the looming storm that open banking, mobile payments, aggregation models, and other marketplace dynamics will bring. More customers will want to earn more loyalty currencies – which is potentially fantastic for all brands.

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