It’s amazing how creating the time and space to look back provides the fuel to propel forward momentum. I can’t wait to see what this year brings. While many are looking back at 2019, we are looking back at an entire decade of growth, impact, and momentum. 

And what a decade it was!  We are proud of our ten plus years of impact.

I hope you will take the time to check out the infographic we put together that highlights our achievements over the last decade. Let’s pause here and consider the significance of just that– for an entire decade (and more!), our team has been dedicated to providing the best in class solutions for financial health and for helping our subscribers increase repayment rates while also improving employee and customer experience.  We have accomplished so much while maintaining the same mission since we were founded!

And in doing so, we received accolades, surpassed many milestones and achieved the trust and respect of our clients. We have built partnerships that we value immensely. None of this comes easily or quickly. But more than any of this, I am most proud of the team we have built who have dedicated their professional lives to ensuring that those who experience financial challenges are treated with respect and are able to get the resources they need to help them see greater financial stability. We are helping many people do exactly that and are creating the impact we had intended from day one.

Onward and upward,

 Rochelle

Rochelle Nawrocki Gorey

Co-Founder & CEO, SpringFour

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.

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“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

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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.

Katie Gottschall Donohue

Vice President, Strategy and Customer Engagement, SpringFour Inc.