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Industry Slant // Bo Berg Talks Giant Schnauzers, DJing, Financial Services

Perficient

I eventually got headhunted to work for City National Bank in Los Angeles. MM: So, you started at City National Bank, and was the bank online before you got there? MM: You played a variety of roles at City National Bank. I touch a variety of sub-industries, including retail banking, commercial banking, and payments.

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JCPenney To End Clothing Subscription Partnership

PYMNTS

Retailer JCPenney has decided to end a clothing subscription service as it continues to struggle financially, according to a report by Reuters. It offered high-end, private-label clothes as well as national men’s clothing brands in regular shipments for people who signed up. The fee was applied to kept clothes.

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Steal This 5-Step Banking Innovation Playbook from Gentle Monster

South State Correspondent

Gentle Monster Background Founded in 2011 by Kim, Gentle Monster initially struggled to break through against large brands like Luxottica which controls an estimated 30% of the US market, and is behind almost every single designer eyeglass brand you can think of, including Ray-Ban, Oakley, Armani, Ralph Lauren, Chanel, Prada and many more.

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Delivery, Casual Dining And Consumer Confidence Will Shape Future of Restaurants

PYMNTS

Hudson Riehle, senior vice president of the National Restaurant Association’s research and knowledge group, and Peter Backman, managing partner at Peter Backman FS, explored the possibilities during a joint presentation at the National Restaurant Show in Chicago. GDP growth rate is at its lowest since 2011. percent, the U.S.’

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Walmart May Be Looking To Sell Off Its Japanese Business

PYMNTS

Walmart has been operating in Japan for the last 16 years — a time described as “tumultuous” by the Financial Times ( FT ). According to FT reports, Walmart has been approaching bankers to explore an exit by sale from Japan, as the international retail giant is seeking to divest itself of the struggling Seiyu supermarket chain.

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The Surge Of Digital Payments In India

BankBazaar

According to an RBI document from March 2011, the average number of non-cash transactions per person was only six per year. In 2011, just a small percentage of the approximately 10 million retailers expected card payments, according to the same paper and around 145 million households were not connected to the banking system.

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How Can Banks Thrive in the Next Five Years?

Jeff For Banks

There is a fintech firm, SoFi, that was born in 2011, that focuses on millennials financial needs. Firstly, commercial banks are significantly funded with retail deposits. Both businesses, by industry types, and retail, by retail demographic types. Build a positive culture with operating discipline.