{"id":29286,"date":"2021-03-02T11:36:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T17:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=29286"},"modified":"2021-03-02T11:36:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T17:36:34","slug":"walmart-hires-goldman-talent-to-head-new-fintech-start-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/news\/walmart-hires-goldman-talent-to-head-new-fintech-start-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart hires Goldman talent to head new fintech start-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Walmart has nabbed two Goldman Sachs bankers <\/strong><strong>as the retail giant looks<\/strong><strong> for other ways to drive revenue, from advertising and health care to financial services.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Walmart has nabbed two veteran bankers from\u00a0Goldman Sachs to help lead its new fintech start-up, as the company\u00a0looks beyond retail to drive revenue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg reported that Omer Ismail, who leads Goldman\u2019s consumer bank, and David Stark, another Goldman banker, are the individuals involved and a Goldman Sachs spokesperson confirmed their departures.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Walmart announced in January that it has joined forces with Ribbit Capital, a venture capital firm, to create\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/01\/11\/walmart-to-create-fintech-start-up-with-investment-firm-behind-robinhood.html\">a company to develop affordable financial products for customers and employees<\/a> and will own a majority stake in the startup.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Walmart executives, including CFO Brett Biggs and Walmart U.S. CEO John Furner, will be on the start-up\u2019s board.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Walmart has yet to share the name of the company or when services will be available.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart has nabbed two Goldman Sachs bankers as the retail  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":29296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1338],"tags":[1225],"class_list":["post-29286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-walmart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29300,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29286\/revisions\/29300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}