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Qapital Raises $12 Million, Adds Debit Card Functionality

Fintech Labs Insights

The company’s founders George Friedman and Erik Akterin plan to “rewrite the rules of retail banking” by helping millennials “translate money into happiness.” ” In the three years since it launched, 180,000 users have opened and funded savings accounts on the Qapital platform.

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Zola Gets Physical With Its Digital Wedding Registry

PYMNTS

When you think about millennial couples today, they are unlike any previous generation. Apart from selection, Zola also claims its ability to pull and analyze consumer data is critical to building the right user experience and forecasting future sales. They tend to live together before they get married.

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We analyzed 7 of the fastest-growing personal finance apps of all time to figure out the secrets to their success — here’s what we learned

CB Insights

An explosion of new consumer finance brands is transforming how people save, spend, and manage their money. Ninety-two million millennials will soon be in what Goldman Sachs calls their “prime spending years.” The 3 questions Level Money asks users the first time they use the app. In aggregate, they command $1.3

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Finovate Fall 2016 Live Blog – Day 1

William Mills

The network lets the user ask family and friends to HELP the user buy something. I’ve heard that financial planners are having a hard time getting Millennials thinking about retirement but instead focus on short-term financial goals – homes, vacations, etc. How can you preserve the digital user experience?

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Why The Next Big Connected Commerce Play Is Television

PYMNTS

That might not be a crazy assumption: Reports from Nielsen reveal that television viewership by that demographic has declined more than 40 percent since 2010 and is off 11 percent year over year for the older half of millennials aged 25 to 34. In the 1960s.

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THE 16TH ANNUAL GONZOBANKER AWARDS

Gonzobanker

Kim, the executives and the boards of both organizations who put rivalry aside to gain scale in the new world of banking where differentiation matters and community can be more than geography. see https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-01/this-is-how-a-banker-in-brooklyn-makes-money-on-millennials ).

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THE 16TH ANNUAL GONZOBANKER AWARDS

Gonzobanker

Kim, the executives and the boards of both organizations who put rivalry aside to gain scale in the new world of banking where differentiation matters and community can be more than geography. Hats off to Chase for uncovering something that attracts millennials to the credit card product that most banks missed. That kinda scares me.”.

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