Our Partners
NetBanker is a leading online finance and banking blog that covers everything from online banking to person-to-person lending to mortgage lead generation in order to give our 6,000+ subscribers the financial industry news and analysis they need daily. Netbanker is a service of the Online Financial Innovations, the publisher of the Online Banking Report (OBR). Jim Bruene, the author and publisher of the OBR and Netbanker, has been providing insightful analysis and research of the online banking and finance industry for over 10 years. For more information about NetBanker, visit them online at http://www.netbanker.com.
Novantas LLC is the acknowledged leader in customer science and revenue strategy in the financial services industry. The Firm specializes in investigating and interpreting customer needs, attitudes and behaviors in ways that help companies to refine marketing decisions, customer strategies, and sales and service activities.
What distinguishes Novantas is its rigorous analytic approaches, its focus on the customer, and the firm’s pragmatism driven by its consultants, who were executives with large financial institutions such as Bank of America, Citibank, American Express, Merrill Lynch, and Wells Fargo. In addition to traditional management consulting, Novantas arms its clients with models, tools, and capabilities that live on well beyond the end of its projects.
For more information, visit them on the web at http://www.novantas.com or see some of our ongoing work at http://www.novantas.com/news_20a.shtml.
Western Independent Bankers is a trade association with more than 350 community-oriented banks and savings & loans as members in the Western states of Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and the U.S. Territories. WIB is a unique regional banking association and is not a chapter of, or affiliated with, any other financial services trade association. WIB’s mission is to assist members to achieve the highest standards of personal and organizational performance.
As part of that mission, WIB offers the Value & Income Program (VIP). Those firms who receive the WIB-endorsed VIP designation provide high quality and value-added products and services that translate into real benefits and potential income for member banks. VIPs have been pre-qualified and carefully screened so WIB members can be assured of their value. Many of the VIPs offer special pricing to de novo banks.
For more information on MRI’s WIB-endorsed products and services visit. http://www.wib.org/wibsco_mri.html.
