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Amazon Pay’s Gauthier: No One Can Predict Retail’s Future, So Innovate Around What Won’t Change

PYMNTS

Should I leverage the online capabilities?’ — taxes that budget,” Gauthier said. Nearly 70 percent (68 percent) of millennial and bridge millennial consumers and 63 percent of Gen X consumers say reviews, recommendations and familiar checkout options give them confidence that a new-to-them merchant is worth getting their business.

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Deep Dive: Why State And Local Agencies In The US Still Struggle With Instant Payments

PYMNTS

Government disbursements can range from child support payments and annual tax returns to pension and retirement fund payouts. Payment Challenges Stall Government Innovations . State and local government disbursements are no exception to these expectations, since many consider them to be crucial parts of their incomes.

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Sales Were Up, Foot Traffic Was Too — But Lowe’s Disappointed Investors

PYMNTS

“Given the rapidly evolving competitive landscape, we are also accelerating our strategic investments, leveraging the benefits of tax reform.”. Lowe’s main rival for do-it-yourself (DIY) home maintenance, Home Depot , logged a 7.5 housing market and the increasing transition of the millennial generation into home ownership mode.

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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. Companies such as Betterment (disclosure, Anthemis is an investor & I am a customer) make investing in a diversified portfolio of ETFs easy and provide additional services such as automated rebalancing and tax optimisation.

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From Investing To Budgeting, How Millennials Are Disrupting Personal Finance

CB Insights

While the media often portrays millennials as preoccupied with the rising prices of festival tickets and avocado toast, their real financial concerns are a bit more practical. But millennials face significant headwinds in making those financial dreams a reality. get the REPORT on next generation investors. From big banks to big tech.

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The Coming Millennial FinTech Crisis

PYMNTS

While they enjoy many FinTech innovations, most millennials don’t have a snowball’s chance of earning more than their parents — ever. It’s one thing for the millennial offspring of the billionaire hedge-fund scions to fall short of making a billion because they only manage to pull down $760 million a year. It’s a fact.

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Wealth, Superannuation and the new aspirational consumer zeitgeist

Jessica Ellerm

At best, each employee would then check said bank account once a year, at tax time. Creativity & emotion must lead innovation. For what, if anything is more synonymous with the millennial generation? Or to look at it another way, it’s analogous to 8.8 The odds are well and truly stacked against you. Or are they?

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