If you’re like everyone else in retail banking, you’re probably trying to figure out how to keep your branches relevant and profitable in a traffic-declining environment. It might surprise you that some of the most important items to tackle in your branch evolution have nothing to do with architectural design. To get started, what you really need to do is define the optimal business model for your organization and your markets. There are many, many factors that will influence your model, but here are five candidates for you to consider as you begin your journey.
Tag Archives: Branch Design
Branch Makeover: Live from the Financial Brand Forum
As one of three design teams selected at the Financial Brand Forum, we were challenged with presenting a branch design concept to NYC-based Municipal Credit Union—live on stage, in front of 900 conference attendees. This presented a terrific chance to share our perspective on innovation.
Inside the Elevations Branch 2.0
When you love where you live, it matters where you bank. Elevations Credit Union, based in Boulder, CO, built their brand on that premise. It’s about loving local, embracing differences, and reflecting the community in which you live. Weber helped Elevations define a branch prototype that extends that brand positioning into the newest Elevations branches — the first of which opened to the public this summer.
Photo tour: BECU’s High-Advisory, Teller-Free Banking Branch
Not far from Microsoft, amid Bellevue Washington’s affluent high-tech community, BECU built a flagship branch engineered for advisory, investment, mortgage, and business services.
Beginning early 2013, Weber Marketing Group and architectural partners EHS Design, sat down with one of the country’s leading credit unions, BECU. Together, we searched for answers to some challenging questions: How do we build a facility for the affluent Eastside community? How do we make transactions more efficient while boosting our advisory services? How do we make a statement to the Eastside that this credit union is as sophisticated in its business offerings as any local bank?
10 Months later, we had the answer. This is a photo tour of BECU’s Eastside Financial Center. Together, we’ll take a careful look at the spaces that make this facility so special.