Nomis Solutions Announces Agenda and Keynote for 2019 Banking Growth Forum


Nomis has just announced the line-up of industry movers and thinkers who will seek to explain and leverage tectonic shifts in the banking sector. On May 14–16, executives from the world’s top retail banks and emerging fintech companies, along with some of the industry’s leading experts, will converge at the Banking Growth Forum 2019. Over the course of three days at the beautiful Hotel Nikko in San Francisco, attendees and faculty will analyze the trends shaping the financial services sector and learn how to apply the latest data-driven techniques to better understand and predict their customers’ needs.

The retail financial services industry is experiencing an unprecedented level of disruption. At this year’s Banking Growth Forum, financial services experts will discuss how to navigate change and drive growth through data-driven, customer-centric strategies across product design, pricing optimization, offer execution, and frontline empowerment.

“We’re looking forward to welcoming retail banking’s change agents at this year’s Banking Growth Forum,” said Frank Rohde, president and CEO of Nomis Solutions. “We’ve assembled some of the industry’s brightest minds to lead conversations on how to drive sustainable, customer-centric growth in a dynamic market. And, as in previous years, we’ll mix a packed curriculum with lively social interaction, an opportunity to see the Giants play the Blue Jays, and a night at the de Young Museum.”

For more than a decade, retail bankers and other consumer financial services professionals from around the world have attended Banking Growth Forum for actionable advice on growing their portfolios through advanced analytics. The 2018 agenda included more than 30 sessions that provided actionable insights for attaining strategic goals. For anyone responsible for meeting portfolio KPIs in consumer lending and/or deposits, this is the premier conference in the financial services industry. Attendees represent virtually all retail banking verticals, including consumer and business deposits, residential lending, unsecured lending, auto lending, and dealer finance, as well as credit cards.

The 2019 Banking Growth Forum offers three tracks for attendees: technology and data, change and governance, and vision and strategy. Speakers already confirmed include: 

  • Bob Phillips, Founder of Nomis Solutions and Director of Pricing Research at Amazon
  • John Dworak, SVP Pricing Manager, Retail Mortgages and Home Equity, Wells Fargo
  • Geoff Finnie, Managing Director, Enterprise Machine Learning Centre of Excellence, BMO
  • Bruce Holley, Senior Managing Director, Accenture
  • Wei Ke, Head of Financial Services Practice (North America), Simon-Kucher
  • Chris Smith, Managing Director.Founder at Open Venture