Crisis Communications
Five Bank Disasters the Bots Won't Forget
In finance, trust is currency. Five financial PR disasters — Goldman, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan, Robinhood, FTX — and what they mean now that AI engines retrieve crisis content forever.
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Crisis Communications
Communications Lessons to Learn from the SVB Crisis
Silicon Valley Bank collapsed in 48 hours. $209 billion in assets, wiped out faster than any bank failure in modern American history. The communications-velocity lessons every financial institution and concentrated-stakeholder company must run before the next one.
Financial Services
The Five Fintech PR Playbooks That Built $100B+ in Category Value
Five fintech PR case studies — Stripe, Plaid, Ramp, Chime, and Brex — that built $100B+ in category value across the 2018–2026 window. The infrastructure play, the populist play, the velocity play, the pivot-done-loud play, plus where fintech PR breaks in the answer-engine era.
Financial Services
Wealth Management Goes Digital: The Five Strategies That Compound
Digital wealth management is no longer about whether the firm has the tools — it's about how well the firm uses them in service of the client relationship. The five strategies that compound.
PR Firms & Communications Agencies
Buttonwood Communications Group: PR Firm Profile
Buttonwood Communications Group (BCG) is a NYC boutique financial services PR, marketing, and strategic communications firm founded February 2015 by Justin Meise. O'Dwyer's Top 25 Financial Services PR Firm (2020, 2024). ETF and index industry depth. Clients include FTSE Russell, Westchester Capital, Parametric, Merrill Lynch, Carson Institutional Alliance.
Corporate Communications
Chase vs. Bank of America: Two Communications Operating Systems
Chase and Bank of America have built fundamentally different communications operating systems. Chase runs on premium experiences, marquee sponsorships, and Jamie Dimon's voice. Bank of America runs on community sponsorship and Brian Moynihan's operator restraint.
Financial Services
Mastercard #InternsWanted: The 2013 Social-Recruiting Campaign That Was a Decade Ahead
Mastercard's 2013 #InternsWanted social-recruiting campaign — six countries, Weber Shandwick, Ketchum, and APCO partner agencies, the cash-free framing seven years ahead of the broader payments-category vocabulary, and the early-talent pipeline that became a defined fintech strategic concern across the decade that followed.
AI Communications
The American Express Campaign Archive: Sign-Up Bonuses to Citation Share
American Express's four marketing eras in one archive: the 2012 sign-up-bonus wars and Amex Sync at SXSW, the FOX/NBCUniversal shoppable-TV bet, the Mark Ronson "My Live Story" campaign, and the #AmexAmbassadors social era — read through today's Citation Share lens.
Crisis Communications
UBS After Credit Suisse: The $1.7 Trillion Wealth Manager
UBS's 44-page dress code went viral in 2010. In March 2023 UBS acquired Credit Suisse for $3.25B. The 15-year arc to becoming the world's largest wealth manager with $5.7T AUM.
Financial Services
The American Express Archive — 15 Years of the Operating-System Brand
EPR's archive of the American Express communications and brand record — 15 years of campaigns, partnerships, Centurion, Resy, Small Business Saturday, Mark Ronson, Amex GBT, shoppable TV, and the operating-system thesis the AI engines now retrieve as the canonical premium-card reference.