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Today In Payments: MineralTree Raises $50M, Buys Two Companies; Robinhood Raises $460M

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the Massachusetts-based accounts payable (AP) automation software provider, on Thursday (Sept. The new funding is an outcropping of the Series G round unveiled in August for the firm, which is said to have helped millennials become interested in trading. MineralTree Raises $50M, Buys Two Companies. MineralTree Inc.,

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8 Connected-Economy Firms Expected To Light Up The IPO Market In 2021

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Robinhood offers an easy-to-use app to trade stocks commission-free, making the company popular with millennials. Securities and Exchange Commission allegations that it failed for several years to disclose so-called “payments for order flow.” In addition to operating some 1,500 U.S.

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From ACH To IoT: Looking Back On A Year Of Trackers

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The spring brought coverage of mobile advertising and payments on the go at food trucks as small, smart device-powered businesses, and in the fall, we looked at the biggest trends in digital security at the annual Money20/20 Conference in Las Vegas. Chime also makes an effort to reach millennials where they already shop.

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The Dawn of Banking Voice Technology

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In partnership with Nuance Communications, the same Massachusetts-based company behind the voice of Siri, the bank is piloting the technology in order to initially promote voice-activated functionality around spending tracking. The bank opted to pilot the technology in its student app, he said, because millennials are known early adopters.

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24 Industries Other Than Auto That Driverless Cars Could Turn Upside Down

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While not as sizable a market as healthcare, auto sales, or insurance, the world’s driving schools will largely disappear as the ability to manually operate a car transitions from a necessary skill to a hobby. A shift away from licensing can already be seen in the sharp decline in millennials getting licenses. Urban Planning.

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Fizzle Of The Week: The Activist CFPB

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It reveals that Mulvaney won’t s hutter the CFPB entirely — possibly because he is prevented by statute from doing so — but will instead change the way it operates going forward. Costco for Millennials: Forget the dad jeans. Forget the mom jeans and the giant jars of peanut butter.

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2019: What To Take Forward And What To Leave Behind

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Payments are and will be embedded in each of these experiences, enabled by an intermediary that will authenticate the user or the user’s device and enable secure, private and interoperable commerce experiences. Card networks do it with operating rules that keep bad actors from using their networks to do bad things.

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