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Steal This 5-Step Banking Innovation Playbook from Gentle Monster

South State Correspondent

For inspiration in banking innovation, we often look to other industries. Instead of thinking traditionally, Gentle Monster pursued a strategy of innovation and creativity to become the hottest sunglass company globally, creating a company currently valued at $900 million. Honkook Kim and his Gentle Monster Brand is a perfect example.

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PetSmart Acquires Leading Online Pet Food Retailer

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PetSmart is boosting its digital offerings through the acquisition of Chewy, the leading online retailer of pet food and products. After the deal is closed, Chewy, which was founded in 2011, will continue to be led by CEO Ryan Cohen and operate primarily as an independent subsidiary of PetSmart.

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Why Invisible Will Make 2020’s Payments Innovation Roar

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Two hundred and seventy-four years later, those words are the perfect framework for understanding what will define the next decade of innovation in payments and any ecosystem that touches it. Sometimes those innovations disrupted old models and players; other times they made them better and more efficient. The Invisible Innovators .

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Subscription Commerce Is Expanding Beyond Retail

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Subscription commerce is attractive to entertainment platforms as well as retail businesses because it locks in revenue streams, and customer data can help with planning and forecasting. Subscription commerce isn’t immune to the retail data breaches that have become widespread, though it does have different payment issues.

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WorldRemit opens Toronto office to help grow Canadian customer base

Bank Innovation

The company’s Canadian operations were based in Montreal since 2011, but Corey Myckan, Canada country director at WorldRemit, said the company decided […].

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Meal Kit Companies Reconsider Direct/Subscription Model In Favor Of Retail

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He said the company’s pilot program, which initially sold meal kits in 17 Costco stores and has expanded to 80 locations within three months, has “further validated to us the power of Costco’s retail platform.” Retailers have realized that consumers still like to come into stores,” Kilcourse said.

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WithMe’s Next Phase Retail

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The common theme to all the “stores of the future” currently under construction across the retail landscape is the centrality of the consumer and the necessity of rebooting the shopping experience. Yes, the future of retail might just be in a mall right now, which was probably a plot twist you weren’t expecting.

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