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Stefani Benefield, Pace, FL US

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20100094774INTERACTIVE AND COLLABORATIVE FINANCIAL CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE APPLICATION - Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for an interactive financial customer experience that allows collaboratively selecting financial products for a customer. The customer experience assesses the customer's life events and subsequently uses the life events and the proximate date of occurrence of the life events to determine financial product recommendations and offers for the customer. Additionally, the customer experience may assess the customer's life interests and/or financial portfolio to further determine financial product recommendations and offers. The financial product recommendations, along with other financial product options, may be presented to the customer and financial institution associate in a user-friendly platform that further accentuates the collaborative nature of the financial product selection process.04-15-2010

Stefani R. Benefield, Milton, FL US

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20110178908DYNAMICALLY PROVIDING FINANCIAL SOLUTION RECOMMENDATIONS - Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for dynamically building financial solution recommendations based on received inputs. These inputs, which may be received from the customer, an associate collaborating with the customer or from a customer database, may include customer behaviors, customer attitudes, customer life events, customer life interests, customer personal/profile data, customer financial data, such as portfolio data and the like. Based on the received inputs, financial solution recommendations are determined and presented to the customer in real time or near time. As such, the customer is able to instantaneously see how each input of recommendation criteria impacts the financial solution recommendations. Further, embodiments of the present invention provide for inputs to the financial solution recommendation tool/module to be received in a non-linear fashion, such that a customer or a collaborating associate may provide inputs at various entry points to accommodate specific financial solution needs of the customer.07-21-2011
20110178909PROVIDING VALUE EXCHANGE IN CONNECTION WITH FINANCIAL INSTITUTION RECOMMENDATIONS OFFERS - Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for presenting value exchange in conjunction with financial solution recommendations or offers. The value component, is not limited to monetary value but may, in specific embodiments, also include, convenience value, emotional value or the like. The value component allows the customer to make informed decisions on which financial solution recommendations or offers to select. Further, the value component may be uniquely and dynamically customized (i.e., determined on-the-fly) for the customer based on inputs received from the customer and/or customer profile data. In addition, the value component may reflect average value realized for the demographic group applicable to the customer.07-21-2011
20110178910CONDUCTING A FINANCIAL INSTITUTION INTERACTION ACROSS MULTIPLE FINANCIAL INSTITUTION CHANNELS - Systems, methods, and computer program products are provide for initiating a financial institution interaction, such as financial solution recommendation interaction or the like, on a first financial institution channel and subsequently seamlessly completing the interaction on a second financial institution channel. The movement of the interaction from one channel to another allows the customer flexibility in completing the interaction and accommodates the customer's time constraints. The financial institution channels may include a financial institution banking center channel, an online banking channel, an ATM channel, a mobile application channel, a kiosk channel, a call center channel, a point-of-sale channel or the like.07-21-2011

Stefani R. Benefield, Pensacola, FL US

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20110208603CUSTOMER ONBOARDING - Financial institutions are continuously seeking effective ways “to onboard” customers. As used herein, “to onboard” or “onboarding” refers to a financial institution building its relationship with a customer just after that customer signs up for, or otherwise consumes, a financial product or service offered by the financial institution. Embodiments of the present invention provide apparatuses, methods and computer program products for onboarding customers. For example, according to an embodiment, the present invention provides an onboarding hub that onboards customers by helping customers set up and use an online banking website to manage their account(s).08-25-2011
20110208629CUSTOMER ACCOUNT NOTIFICATION MESSAGES - Embodiments of the invention relate to apparatuses, methods, and computer program products for providing notification messages relating to observations made about a customer's use of an account that is held by a bank. For example, one embodiment of the invention provides a bank computer system having a memory communicably coupled to a communication device and a processor. In one embodiment, the memory stores information about the customer's use of account services and features, including online banking. The processor is configured to monitor the information and make observations about the customer's use of the account services and features, and use the communication device to communicate a notification message containing information relating to how the customer could better utilize the account services and features.08-25-2011