At SOMESSO Zurich 2009 some of the speakers took a few minutes to share their knowledge off-stage. We don’t want to withhold these exclusive interviews from you and hope that you will get some useful insight out of them. We sure did!
Two Entrepreneurs to watch:
Matthias Kröner is CEO of Ficoba - one of the SOMESSO “Entrepreneurs to Watch”. In this post he explains - in plain English - what Ficoba offers and the general emergence & importance of community banking. Matthias will be presenting Ficoba at SOMESSO Zurich 2009 on November 3.
FIDOR COMMUNITY BANKING is the result of a) the current market crisis and b) of changing customer online behaviour patterns. In a consequence to both developments, we see a clear need for something, that we call “COMMUNITY BANKING”: a new “self-understanding” for banks AND necessarily a modified self-understanding for banking customers.
Let me show you, how that looks like and what the customer’s advantage is out of that:
Firstly, we are a regulated bank. That sounds boring. But: Talking and Dealing with costumers money needs a professional and supervised partner. Customers must know, that we are a sustainable partner, of which the BAFin controls management and shareholders. (more…)
