Social media allows for interaction and information sharing through virtual communities and networks. It facilitates the creation and sharing of information, ideas, and expressions via these communities and networks. Social media in banking is a communication channel between financial institutions and customers that is transforming banking relationships through improved customer service and new services like sending money online. Banks use various social media tools and technologies to engage customers, provide services, develop products, reduce costs, and build their brand and business models.
2. Social media
• Social media is interaction among people in which,
they create, share, and exchange information and
ideas in virtual communities and networks.
• Social media are computer mediated technologies that
facilitate the creation and sharing of information,
ideas, career interests and other forms of expression
via virtual communities and networks.
3. 1. Simple user interface.
2. Prominent search functionality.
3. Personalized User Profile and Experience.
4. Notifications and Real time updates.
5. Interactivity.
4. • Social media in banking is a communication channel
between financial institutions and customers.
• Social media is transforming banking relationships in
very significant ways, from improving customer
service to allowing users to send money to others via
online platforms.
5. Banks uses social media using web 2.0 technologies
that includes:
Financial social networks (FSN’s)
General social networking
Blogging and micro blogging tools
Podcasts
Wiki’s
Mash ups
Widgets
6. Areas where social media is changing banking
services:
Customer Service
Marketing
New Product/Service Development
Reducing Costs and Improving Efficiencies
New Business Models
7. Reasons for adopting social media:
Targeting the audience more effectively
Expands your target audience and brings in new ones
Allows instantaneous feedback from customers
Increases website traffic, search ranking, generating leads
Cost effective
Develops customer service relations and loyalty
8. Major benefits of banks using social media:
Understanding the market
Finding out potential customers
Identifying social media influencers
Continues eye on customer feedback
Analysing your competition
Relationship development