U.S. Bank has been at innovation for 10 years and has seven teams working on it. Stephanie Hammes-Betti heads up one of those groups, Innovation Design. She describes her work as the front end of innovation, looking for new ideas to bring to the bank to evaluate.
Read MoreMany challenger banks — the small, newly created companies that want to compete with the “big guy” legacy institutions — have taken similar approaches when launching their services. The problem is what they’re offering isn’t enough for their companies to take root among consumers.
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