BMO Harris Bank talks Fintech Partnerships and the Impact BMO is Having with SpringFour

Jan 16, 2020

BMO Harris Bank’s Ben Schack was the recent guest on Bank Innovation’s podcast, “Fintech Unfiltered” which first aired January 15, 2020. In this episode Schack, who leads US Digital Partnerships for BMO Financial Group, shares his experience working with startups, and in particular fintechs, to increase offerings at the bank. The podcast focuses on what BMO looks for when engaging with fintechs, and how they are building out capacity to increase opportunities for innovation by collaborating with fintechs and other startups.

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________

“SpringFour has changed the way we are engaging with our customers who are kind of in a moment of truth in their financial life, and really changed the nature of that interaction and the way that we are engaging with them for the better.”

-Ben Schack, Head US Digital Partnerships, BMO Financial Group

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________

When asked about fintechs that BMO is excited about and examples of partnerships in the past few years that went very well and are doing interesting things in Fintech, Ben had this to say, ”The best example to talk about is our partnership with SpringFour.”

Ben went on to say that SpringFour “has changed the way we are engaging with our customers who are kind of in a moment of truth in their financial life and (SpringFour has) really changed the nature of that interaction and the way that we are engaging with them for the better.”

Tune in for great insights and of course to hear more specifics about how BMO Harris embraces fintech partnerships and specifically how BMO Harris has deployed SpringFour to bring benefits to its business and customers.

And a thank you to Bank Innovation for featuring this important topic of collaboration.