Using Augmented Reality and Games for Bank Engagement

Gamification has come a long way in categories such as education and health, but Jonathon Camhi explains in 2014 Forecast: Gamification and the Year Ahead in Banking that in the banking world, gamification lags far behind. When reviewing banking gamification on a global scale, an in-depth survey by Infosys reveals that some banks in South Korea and Singapore have adopted gamification applications.

This research study included 160 lending institutions worldwide, but less than 10% have instituted any form of gamification. However, “35%” of those banks have plans to unveil gamification applications in the future, specifically in the next two years.

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The Goldman Sachs NYC Scavenger Hunt for Charity

With the simple rules “do not tamper with the clues” and “no private motorized transport”, 20 Goldman Sachs employee teams armed with bubble gum cards, a seating chart for Kevin Bacon’s wedding, a plastic cube, and a three-stanza poem all competed to win the scavenger hunt Midnight Madness.

Originally founded in 1996 by Mat Laibowitz and his Columbia University friend Dan Michaelson, these teams of NYC based financiers and some of their friends took to the streets to decipher clues to win the hunt – all for charity. For almost two days, these contestants live in their own reality solving puzzles that would make even Sherlock Holmes or the most hardened gamer cringe.

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