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Millennials SME Owners Prefer Online Alternative Lenders to Tradtional Ones

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small businesses, specifically and unsurprisingly with those run by millennials, according to a new report by Mercator Advisory Group. According to Mercator’s report, Business Banking Services: Keeping Up with Millennial Owners, 27% of total U.S. Online alternative lenders are gaining momentum with U.S.

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Can a Mobile Lending App Save Millennial Credit Ratings?

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Millennials hate credit — but a new service called Lenny is out to change that. Lenny is meant for mobile (of course) and launched today in California. It will reach Texas, Florida and New York in the next 10 to 12 months, according to the company, which claims that, in less than three Read More.

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What Hath Bridge Millennials Wrought To Commerce And Payments?

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The new year will bring a new round of one of the hottest games in the payments-and-commerce world: What makes millennials tick? Census, millennials are 25 to 34 years old. The reason for that is because data shows a significant difference in payments and commerce between this segment and the Census view of millennials.

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Retail Feels The Wide Impact Of Bridge Millennials

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Among the forces working to influence and change retail — and do so into the 2019 holiday shopping season, as well as the 2020s — is the rise of bridge millennials. Having had the time to establish their careers, they enjoy higher spending power than younger millennials, who are just now dipping their toes into the professional world.

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Millennial Small Business Owners Are Most Optimistic About 2018 Growth, BofA Survey Says

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The most optimistic owners are millennials, according to data from the Bank of America Fall 2017 Small Business Owner Report. The survey of about 1,000 small businesses, released last week, found that the majority of millennial entrepreneurs (81%, the survey […].

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CIBIL Study Shows Millennials Are Actively Checking Their Credit Scores

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While millennials are borrowing more than pre-millennials and post-millennials, they are still conscious about how much debt they are taking up…. Did you know that India’s millennials fall in the biggest borrowers’ category within the country? This is higher than the average score of non-millennials, which is 734.

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Millennial Women Are (Still) Held Back from Investing by Student Debt, SoFi Says

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Millennial women have the funds available to start investing, but are held back by a fear of beginning the process, as well as the typical reason most millennials aren’t investing: debt, a study released yesterday by loan provider SoFi found.