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What banks can learn from Wal-Mart

Chris Skinner

It’s a benchmark article showing how an incumbent giant finds it hard to adapt. In the video, Lore presents a plan to bet Wal-Mart’s future not on e-commerce standbys such as books, electronics, and toys, but on product areas only now becoming popular online, including apparel, fresh food, and “everyday essentials” like drugstore items.

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Rethinking the Customer Experience: Themes from the 2017 Model Bank Submissions

Celent Banking

This is the third article in a weekly series highlighting trends and themes from Celent’s Model Bank submission process. Articles from this week on will explore some of the broader themes within each category. This is just a taste of what we’ll have in store at the 10 th annual Innovation and Insight Day on April 4 th in Boston.

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Smart Watches, Run Hubs And New Balance’s Retail Reset Button

PYMNTS

Boston-based athletic company New Balance has a simple mission: to become the world’s best running brand. It’s a multi-pronged attack that is leveraging both gadgets and a big reboot of the in-store experience that the Boston-based firm is betting big on. The Step Into Tech: The RunIQ . The Run Hub. We started in the U.S.

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The Connected Car: An Extension Of The Consumer’s Home

PYMNTS

It’s Boston. It’s February (or maybe it’s May, because it’s still snowing in Boston). Consumers can redeem offers from the car or have orders delivered right to their trunk (the milk and toilet paper described at the beginning of the article). Picture this. It’s snowing. A driver has to pull over and get gas.

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Innovation in the Asset Management industry

Tefkin

On the “Beta” end of the scale, ETFs are steadily becoming one of the most successful innovation in recent decades. It is limiting to define these businesses as just online, their capacity to craft a digital experience in line with the expectations of the younger generations is unmatched by traditional financial services players.

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Not a Session at Acquire or Be Acquired: Culture

Jeff For Banks

When Raphael Reznek, CIO of Mascoma Bank, spoke about the biggest challenge to launch online account opening: "our internal culture". Mike Butler of Radius, although a lifelong banker, came from outside of the region and implemented a business model and cultural change at his bank with new management and a "fast fail" innovation culture.

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What Amazon HQ2, Interchange Fees And Facebook Have In Common

PYMNTS

For those charged with managing the consumer’s trust and safety when transacting online, and in the midst of increasingly clever cybercrooks, being comfortable going against the status quo flow has become much more important than ever before, he said. Whether they rise to the level of being contrarian will be for you to decide.

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