Last Thursday, we hosted our annual Banking Innovation and Insight Day at the Westin Times Square in NYC. Celent Senior Analyst Bob Meara opened up to a packed house with his presentation on top tech trends. This set the stage for the day as we moved into more specific subjects including, social media, risk management, core banking, mobile payments, and more. We had a good number of journalists in attendance to cover the event. Bank Systems & Technology was first out of the gate with a story, and wrote up a detailed piece on the social media panel that I moderated (Citi, USAA Execs Share Social Media Best Practices). I also had the honor of presenting awards to the 18 banks that were selected for our 2010 Model Bank initiative (group photo below). If you would like to obtain a copy of the 2010 Model Bank report please click here. If you are interested in submitting a nomination for our 2011 Model Bank report, or for more information on Model Bank, please visit www.celentmodelbank.com.

All presentations from the event are available for Celent clients to download on our web site. We invite you to review what folks had to say about the event on Twitter If you would like to see a few photos from the event please visit our Flickr photostream.

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Feedback on the event has been extremely positive. I would like to thank all of our attendees, distinguished panelists, and dynamic presenters for contributing to a successful event!