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What banks can learn from Wal-Mart

Chris Skinner

A recent acquisition spree including Jet.com gives the retail giant much-needed digital chops by Brad Stone and Matthew Boyle from Bloomberg Business Week Last summer, Marc Lore, founder and chief executive officer of e-commerce startup Jet.com Inc., Even more astonishing, Lore and his management team in Hoboken, N.J.,

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Walmart Presents A Ten-Point Plan To Renew U.S. Manufacturing

PYMNTS

In a press release detailing the effort, the retailer said the meeting included a bipartisan conversation about the current challenges and opportunities in the American manufacturing sector as well as case studies of successful collaboration among different players. “As Manufacturing. manufacturing.”.

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Model Bank 2017: Some First Impressions

Celent Banking

It’s certain, though, that Celent analysts will have a full plate for the next two months as we reach out to our Model Banks and complete the work of distilling their rich stories into pithy case studies that illustrate the incredible innovations banks are undertaking today. Find out more about last year’s event here.

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Congratulations to All Celent Model Bank 2017 Award Winners!

Celent Banking

Many of us at Celent just came back from a busy and exciting week in Boston. The rain and clouds couldn't obscure spectacular views from the State Room overlooking the Boston harbour. Each of the award winning initiatives is published as a case study and available to Celent research clients by following the links above.

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Celent Model Bank 2017 Awards: The Payments Preview

Celent Banking

Until we announce all winners publicly on April 4 at our 2017 Innovation & Insight Day in Boston, we’re unable to say too much more – very frustrating! We also saw, particularly in the retail space, the adoption of innovations in one market, transposed from another.

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Retailers and cashlessness (In more ways than one)

Tomorrow's Transactions

Naturally, as is the case for most forward-looking of retailers, they do not take cash, so I paid with one of the many cards about my person. Perry Kramer, vice president and practice lead at consultant Boston Retail Partners, contends that as many as four-fifths of (US, I presume) retailers are already “largely cashless”.

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Introducing Celent Model Bank 2017 Awards

Celent Banking

For the time being, only the nominees will know if they won any of these awards, as we begin working with them to distill their achievements into a series of case studies. We will be announcing all winners publicly on April 4 at our 2017 Innovation & Insight Day in Boston.