Innovation in the online banking marketplace have led many in the financial service industry to bring ingenuity top of mind when developing innovations in banking technologies. New products, features, and services focusing on the way banks and their customers conduct business online to save time and money may not always be easily identified. New products, features, and services focusing on the way banks and their customers conductbusiness online to save time and money may not always be easily identified. To recognize the financial institutions and industry partners who provide the most innovative technologies to business customers, Barlow Research Associates, Inc. (BRAI), a leader in providing research and consulting services to the banking industry, awards the Monarch Innovation Awards.
The Monarch Innovation Awardscelebrate the ways that financial institutions innovate to benefit their customers and the banking sector, as well as recognize risk takers who create/promote innovation within their organizations. They are unique in the US banking industry in their focus on innovation. In their three-year history, the Monarch Awards have already identified important products, features, and services in the banking industry. BRAI created the awards to recognize the importance – and challenge – of innovation in a highly regulated sector.
Applications to be considered for the award are open until January 14, 2010. A panel of independent experts will examine the nominations and select seven winners in the areas of products, features, industry partners, and overall excellence. Winners will be announced in February 2011. Past recipients of the Monarch Innovation Awards include: Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Intuit. Organizations interested in making a nomination can obtain more information from www.MonarchInnovationAwards.com or by contacting Youa Yang at: 763-253-1825.
About the Monarch Innovation Awards
Developed to recognize innovation in the financial services industry, the award is named after the monarch to symbolize the rebirth that results when old formulas and methods give way to new ways of doing things. www.MonarchInnovationAwards.com
About Barlow Research Associates, Inc.
Barlow Research Associates, Inc. (BRAI) was founded in 1980 to provide research and consulting services to the banking industry in the U.S. and overseas. BRAI specializes in custom research, strategic consulting and syndicated research programs in small business, middle market and Internet banking. BRAI has a wide range of experience in many financial markets, and knows the questions to ask and the issues to probe. www.BarlowResearch.com
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Contacts:
Barlow Research Associates
Youa Yang, 763-253-1825
yyang@barlowresearch.com