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A differentiated and competitive checking account for the mass affluent US market
Client
Citizens Access Bank
Year
2019
Services
Innovation
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Product Design
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Visual Design
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Citizens Access are an online offshoot of Citizens bank, built as an alternative to traditional banks and short-term promotional offers. They offer access to a secure digital experience that aims to be a differentiated and competitive checking account proposition for mass affluent customers. To maximise the opportunities of success, Citizens Access were looking to design a meaningful experience and service that could delight customers by achieving empathy with their lives, values, and identity.
[ CHALLENGE ]

Accelerating strategic growth by extending digital banking services.

Citizens Access, the direct bank offering of Citizens Bank, N.A., has grown rapidly with its online-only savings proposition in the past two years. However, as competition in the US market intensifies between traditional and direct banks, and new Fintech entrants, it wanted to increase the stickiness of their existing customer base and drive acquisition of primary account relationships.

The Citizens Access team knew they didn’t want to offer just an additional financial product, they wanted to create a truly digital service that helped their customers achieve more with their money and wealth. They wanted to better understand how customers used its existing products and the drivers and barriers to switching digital banks to identify the areas where people are most underserved by the market.

To accelerate CAX’s growth by moving into the mass affluent checking account market.

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[ PROJECT DETAILS ]
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