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What Shadow Banking Means for Your Financial Services PR Program

Shift Communications

The Rise of Shadow Banking. Financial services, as an industry umbrella term, includes personal finance, M&A, credit card related services, and robo advisors—just to name a few. As expected, the “big” banks offer something in all of these areas. What does Shadow Banking mean for a financial PR program?

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Financial Stardumb?  Celebrities Endorsing Investments

Mindful Marketing

Cryptocurrencies recently tapped celebrity associations with great success, but a notable bankruptcy and the industry’s slide have led to serious financial fallout for many investors. I asked each to share his thoughts about celebrities endorsing financial products. Babe Ruth promoted tobacco products.

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Convergence of Marketing & Comms: Insights From E*Trade, Dolby, BitGo,  Bank of the West

Onclusive

At the recent Growth PR Conference from AirPR, leadership from E*Trade, Dolby, BitGo, and Bank of the West shared their personal experiences and thoughts on what works… and what doesn’t. Becky Saeger, Board of Directors, E*Trade Financial. “I Ben Stuart, CMO, Bank of the West. “I

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PR Lessons From The Biggest Failures of 2023

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Tap professional PR expertise: Silicon Valley Bank Unlike the Open AI fiasco, the trigger for Silicon Valley Bank’s well-documented collapse was actually a pure PR mistake, and a huge one at that. SVB put out a fatally flawed press release that was meant to strengthen its financial position but had the opposite effect.

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How Can Financial Services Organizations Use Social Media?

wiredPRworks

How can financial services organizations use social media to differentiate and build relationships? Listen in as Barbara Rozgonyi interviews Chris McGuire about what’s working for his company’s financial services clients. Financial Services Organizations Social Media Interview Key Points. Barbara Rozgonyi on Instagram.

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How The Right PR Makes Better Business Deals

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Although some call it “free advertising,” public relations isn’t free. For a regional credit union, we built upon an existing educational campaign to promote financial literacy for member companies and their employees through seminars and collateral materials. It’s not even cheap.

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PR Golden Turkey Awards, 2022

Flack's Revenge

For Sam Bankman-Fried and his crypto exchange FTX, the simple answer is that a leaked balance sheet leads your biggest rival… to instigate a sort of “bank run”… exposing billions of dollars in shortfalls you apparently created by riskily investing money that wasn’t yours. And he really does know what he is doing here.

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