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…)
In case you missed the first SOMESSO in Zurich end of October, no worries. Check out the opinions of the interviewed participants below for a clearer insight into the event and feel free to share it and / or comment on it. In the meantime, we’ll continue building SOMESSO London on May 15 and SOMESSO Barcelona in September `09. Thanks!
We’ve taken some time out of our hectic schedule to wipe down our website here at somesso.com and move things around a little, to make sure there’s room for information relating to our next conference in London during May 2009. We’ve decided to retain all of the information relating to our successful first conference in Zurich this past October, which you’ll now find in the Zurich ‘08 section. The front page of the website now features as a gorgeous overview portal to all our conferences, which we’ll update whenever we have concrete details to share with you. You can continue to find the SOMESSO blog right here, in which we’ll continue to let you know what’s happening in the world of SOMESSO.
Swiss advertising publication “Werbewoche” published a German-language article in review of our conference in Zurich in November, entitled “Im Internet geht es um Leute” (”In the internet, it’s all about people”). You can download a two page PDF version of the article here:
