Happy Monday Bits: Wells Fargo's vSafe, Accidentally Green, Webby Love, the Center for Future Banking, and more
Posted by Brent Dixon on April 14th, 2008
- Going green might be a fad, but what about when it’s accidental? In an attempt to increase employee retention, Navy FCU accidentally built new “green” buildings that use between 25 and 40% less energy. They also decreased turnover from 60 – 17%. Double win. (“The Accidental Environmentalists” via Kottke)
- Visible Banking’s Christophe Langlois breaks down the 4 types of social media projects.
- Five credit unions, including Digital FCU, have enabled members to scan in deposits from home. (via NetBanker)
- Wells Fargo is rolling out vSafe, a web-based storage tool for important documents. vSafe will integrate with their online banking. As someone who loses everything important every time, I love this idea. (via Finextra)
- First New York FCU’s Walt Everhardt has done a great job of keeping the financial tips and advice coming over at his credit union’s blog.
- Vancity’s ChangeEverything is up for a much-deserved Webby. Show your love by voting for them for the Webby People’s Voice Award. (via Azaroff’s Blog)
- Bank of America is partnering with MIT to build a banking innovation lab. (via The Bankwatch)
- Filed under “another way credit unions make the goodness happen,” the Wisconsin State Treasurer’s Office wants to partner with the Wisconsin CU League to set up an alternative payday lending program. (via CUNA News Now)
Being a telephone operator is a stressful job, so it says a lot about the importance of environmental design if Navy FCU’s new “green” buildings were able to decrease turnover so dramatically.
All the plants and natural daylight make their office interior look very zen.
Brent,
You and I are in the same camp. I to am “someone who loses everything important every time”. That is why I founded VaultStreet.
Let me describe a few enhancements we offer compared with vSafe (which by the way from what I have heard is a great product). VaultStreet automatically collects and organizes financial documents from multiple institutions. Then VaultStreet provides a simple way for consumers to securely share those documents with their tax, financial, and legal advisors.
Finally, we authenticate the documents so that third parties can trust that the information contained in the documents is not fraudulent.
VaultStreet is available today (we are offering a free trial period today) and can be used by any consumer including Wells Fargo’s customers.
For Credit Unions who are interested in rolling out a similar service to vSafe, we offer them a very quick route to market at a cost that is less than what it would cost to develop in house.
Plus we help Credit Unions reduce their printing and mailing costs, while offering a revenue share.
I encourage anyone who is interested to go to www.VaultStreet.com to learn more. If you are a credit union interested in white labeling VaultStreet we would love to talk.
These Jwaala MoneyTracker customers get this capability today …
- Amplify FCU
- Airforce FCU
- TexasTrust FCU
- GreatWisconsin FCU
- GTE FCU
- and others
The CU can put as many docs into the members document management area as they want (like loan/mortgage/statement/etc). Then the member can upload docs as well (like there AMEX or USAA docs).
There are also widgets available for a members documents, all in all pretty neat.