4 weeks of new content for you!

Rik Coeckelbergs
The Banking Scene
Published in
3 min readJun 4, 2020

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Are you curious about how SME Banking will look like, how COVID-19 changed the fintech-bank partnership model, or how banks can do more to reduce to cost of therapy and psychiatry of their customers?

3 more Afterwork sessions of content are waiting for you!

As a little extra, we added a couple of possible scenario’s for bank branches that risk to close now more people switched to digital banking.

SME Banking Will Never Be the Same Again

By Rik Coeckelbergs, with great support of Brad van Leeuwen, May 11, 9 min. read

What pushed the first challenger retail banks is equally true for the SME segment: many are built on the personal needs of the founders, needs that were not fulfilled by his own bank. The purpose of building the bank becomes personal, which makes the business model, the personality and corporate identity of the bank much stronger. [read more]

How a virus changed the relationship between fintechs and banks

By Rik Coeckelbergs, with great support of Toon Vanagt and Don Ginsel, May 18, 7 min. read

“In stressful times, people and organisations go back to what they know. Their risk appetite goes down. The well-known fintech brands and the more mature players have a huge competitive advantage here. Especially the supporting B2B fintechs in the bank platform business, AML and other compliance-related topics are currently skyrocketing.” [read more]

4 ways to align the role of a branch with a post-COVID digital future

By Rik Coeckelbergs, May 26, 7 min. read

“Imagine transforming a branch into a co-working space, with a small office, where financial advisors can help the entrepreneurs whenever needed. I see a lot of cohesion here for bank and entrepreneur.” [read more]

Focus on financial health and wellbeing, transform your bank in a health company

By Rik Coeckelbergs, with great support of Menno van Leeuwen, June 2, 6 min. read

“Given the correlation between stress and financial stress, banks should simply focus on lowering the stress of their customers as a KPI to evaluate how well their tools help in lowering financial stress.

Looking at the bigger picture, banks are not just financial doctors. Financial stress and stress are in a direct relation, so a bank should not only position itself as a financial services company but also as a health company.” [read more]

Are you interested in joining one of the sessions are well? Have a look at our website! We hope to see you as well one Thursday, 16h CEST sharp!

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Rik Coeckelbergs
The Banking Scene

Independent advisor and opinion maker in banking and payments. Like my opinion, why not support it? https://rik-coeckelbergs.medium.com/membership