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Millennial-Focused Digital Bank Empower Finance Raises $20M

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San Francisco-based Empower Finance, a mobile banking app aimed at helping millennials save wealth, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round led by Defy Ventures and Icon Ventures, according to a report. The digital banking field is fraught with competition. billion after recently closing a financing round.

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Digital Banking, Millennially Mobile

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As found by the Digital Banking Tracker , the younger generation is apt to use apps, especially when it comes to navigating accounts. Data: 31 percent: Share of consumers who use mobile banking apps more often than other apps. 16 percent: Estimated CAGR of the global digital banking market through 2024.

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Digital Banking, With Millennial, Mobile – And Governmental – Tailwinds

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The push toward digital banking seems an inexorable one, with the technology and demographics acting as tailwinds, and where governments have increasingly gotten into the act of promoting digital banks (the pure-play kind) and making forays into bits and bytes, where once paper and face-to-face transactions reigned.

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FinTech Bridges Millennial Investing Gap

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To move toward retirement, and to have the money in place to get there, millennials need to make the leap from bare bones banking — checking and savings — into investing. Statistics, he said, show that three out of five millennials don’t invest at all, opting instead to stay on the sidelines. Eyeing the Landscape .

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Why Chase decided to drop digital-banking app Finn

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JPMorgan Chase's millennial-friendly digital banking app Finn is shutting down, just one year after it rolled out nationally. The […].

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Conversational AI Firm Kasisto Partners with U.A.E. Digital Bank Liv

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United Arab Emirates-based digital bank Liv on Wednesday launched its virtual assistant Olivia, which was built by conversational AI company Kasisto. Olivia, a play on the bank’s name Liv, can check balances and give spending insights through text and the bank’s mobile app. has 210,000 […].

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The Race For Singapore’s Digital Banking Licenses

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In late June, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) sent a ripple through the global financial services ecosystem with the announcement of its intention to issue five digital bank licenses to eligible applicants. Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. and United Overseas Bank Ltd. Razer And The Youth Bank .