Case Studies: Retail and Investment Banks Use of Social Media
The past couple of months have seen an increased acknowledgement of the role social media has to play in the development of the financial services sector. Industry forums like Finextra's Live Social Media Days held in London and New York and the inaugural LinkedIn Financial Services Summit in New York are capturing the zeitgeist of financial social media. eModeration's own ‘Guide to managing social media engagement for financial organisations’ presents the best practices of financial organisations using social media and discusses the benefits that social media engagement can bring to financial organisations, with suggestions on how the industry can engage consumers online without breaking regulations. If you'd prefer a digest, here are a few best practice rules to follow along the way. br />To see how this is playing out in reality, here's a look at how some retail and investment banks are using social media and see how they are adapting themselves to cope with the challenges of social media within their legislative framework.
The guidance in the US is far more clear-cut than in the UK.
In the US, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Financial
Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) want advisers participating in
social media sites to keep and store detailed records of their
communications (up to five years for advisers participating in social
media sites, with three years in a readily available format), and
content posted on social media to be vetted by regulators and internal
compliance departments. Firms must also be careful about distinguishing
what constitutes a recommendation and what constitutes research. In the
UK, the 2010 FSA guidelines on 'new media'
assume that the main use of social media will be as another marketing
channel, rather than a medium of consumer or peer interaction, and
guidance as yet is not so clear. An update from the regulator's Mortgage
Market Review said in 2011 that it was "perfectly possible" for
mortgage advice to be offered via social media sites, texts and instant
messaging on mobile phones, adding the proviso only that firms who offer
advice on mortgage deals by text and live web chat must still assess
whether the mortgage is appropriate for the customer.
Investment Firms
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., the most powerful investment bank on
Wall Street, is going to be the brand to watch over the coming months.
Admittedly, it's been a tough year so far for the group, following the crisis caused by a 'rogue' employee Greg Smith, whose resignation letter
in The New York Times decried his firm’s “toxic culture,” and alleged
that senior Goldman bankers had disparaged clients. The viral spread of
Gerg's letter lead to the losses of $2 billion worth of market value as
company’s shares fell 3.4 in trading over the course of the day after
Greg’s announcement.
CEO Lloyd Blankfein (who, incidentally,
has an $16.2 million annual salary) hit the business news for the first
time after two years' silence with a confession: “Obviously
it’s occurred to us that we haven’t gotten anything, er, everything
right with respect to how we, how we’ve dealt with the public".
Goldman Sachs CEO’s announcement was followed by immediate changes
within the organisation: a new Head of PR, Jake Siewert, who started his
work with an announcement of the new vacancy - Social Media Strategist.
In a job posting on the company website, the bank said the ideal candidate will be responsible for “monitoring online conversations and participating in those conversations to build brand visibility and thought leadership.” Poisoned chalice or career-making challenge?
Goldman Sachs, who only started tweeting on their official Twitter
account - @GoldmanSachs - on 24th May 2012, is taking the first step in
entering the social media arena. Will Siewart's efforts and those of the
new 'Social Media Strategist' succeed in turning the beleaguered
giant's reputation around? Watch this space.
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
She may not have composed it, but Fay DeBellis, a Minneapolis-based
adviser for Morgan Stanley Smith Barney (MSSB), posted “Next stop Dow
57,757?” , and her version happened to be the 2,000th Twitter message by
a Morgan Stanley adviser. 600 or more of its 17,800 financial
advisers have been given access to Twitter and LinkedIn in the past year
to seek out potential customers. As Mashable analysed a year ago: "such
professionals hadn’t used either platform because of stringent SEC and
FINRA regulations. Among those rules: Such advisers have to archive all
their electronic interactions and they can’t use LinkedIn’s “recommend”
feature because of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. "
2011 has been a challenging year, trying to find the best solutions and
the software to ensure compliance with the regulations. Morgan Stanley
has opted for Socialware.
Socialware sells software that can archive messages, house a library of
prewritten content and allow compliance officers to oversee postings.
Fay BeBellis' tweet wasn’t an impromptu thought from an investor. It was
a prewritten post, taken from a library of 140-character messages that
had been approved by the compliance department of Morgan Stanley and
sent out by financial advisers at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney.
Ms DeBellis assessed that LinkedIn alone has bought her about $10 million worth of business over 18 months.
In June 2011, MSSB also launched Advisor Insights,
claiming it to be the first internal social networking site for such
financial advisers. Working like an internal version of LinkedIn,
financial advisers with experience in a specific area post their
profiles, follow peers, and pair up with other advisers within the
company who need their expertise.
"Our social media program allows [financial advisers] to use LinkedIn and Twitter in a compliant way," says Pollak. "They
can have a robust LinkedIn profile that discusses their practice and
specialties, broadening their online presence and allowing them to
leverage the networking and thought leadership capabilities the site
offers. It allows [advisers] to find mutual connections with
customers—essentially making every prospecting call a warm call instead
of a cold call."
J.P. Morgan
- J.P. Morgan Retirement Plan Service - a subsidiary of J.P Morgan Chase & Co - launched
a social media forum called ‘Voice of the Community’ in 2011. Billed as
an “interactive virtual experience for J.P. Morgan plan sponsor
clients”, the invitation-only website will be an online resource for
plan sponsors to interact with others, share experiences, and exchange
product feedback. The Voice of the Community will offer resources in the
form of case studies and white papers, information and guidance on new
products and services.
- The J.P. Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge
(now in it's 36th year of being) last year ran a successful global
social media campaign primarily on Facebook, engaging communities all
over the major global cities. This social media strategy is built on the
excitement of the offline event – a race organised in the various
cities across the globe. Designed to raise money for charity and promote
'fitness in the worksplace', the new social media element of the race
increased brand awareness and built up online communities to share in
the excitement before, during and after the event.
CitiBank
One of the largest consumer banks in the USA is actively using Twitter
to resolve customer complaints. Frank Eliason (who was behind
@Comcastcares) joined the organisation in August 2010, and set about
revolutionising the way the bank talked to its customers via Twitter, YouTube and blogs.
the move is part of a plan to target young, wealthy customers in urban
areas and create a customer experience appropriate to them. Investing in
technology is also a wise move for a retail bank that has relatively
few branches and needs to sign more people up online.
Aviva UK – Magic Money
In late 2011, Aviva - the world’s sixth largest insurance group and a
UK savings and pensions provider - implemented a social media campaign
across Facebook, Youtubeand
other social media sites, aiming at encouraging younger workers to save
for the future. Social media was chosen as the most effective and
efficient way of connecting and building the relationship with younger
audiences while also educating them about finance, sharing ideas and
provoking conversations. Aviva chose this way to engage a group
traditionally hard to interest in savings and pensions: they created
informational, entertaining content which drove traffic to their
Facebook page.
HSBC
UK bank HSBC- an eModeration client - have been proving the worth of
social media both on Facebook with their Advance and Student pages, and
on Twitter. HSBC Advance is a pilot by the global banking team to test
whether its customers wanted to communicate via Facebook. They do. In
just under one year, HSBC Advance has over 76,000 fans and handles all kinds of customer services issues. The HSBC Student
Bursary competition hosted on Facebook, now in its fourth year,
attracted 363 video entries in 2011 and the competition page received
more than 38,000 'likes'. HSBC's social media team also drew praise
recently for a demonstration of how social media can assist in a crisis,
their Twitter account keeping customers updated during a technical
failure which resulted in a cash machine outage.
Swedbank
Update: Just heard about Swedbank, the the leading bank in Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which has opened a virtual branchon
social networking website Draugiem.lv. This makes it the first
virtual bank branch on a social networking site in Europe. At this
branch, any registered user of Draugiem.lv will have "fast, convenient and safe access to online aadvice about their finances from Swedbank's experts".
Many thanks to Neria Kundrotaite, CEO Strategy and Business Development at Lex van Dam Trading Academy, for her assistance in writing this article.
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