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Bankers and Strategic Bets. A Slow Embrace.

Jeff For Banks

That's what I thought about while reading a recent Financial Brand post about Innovation in Banking: Killer Ideas? How do we balance strategic direction, customer demand, and the futurist or wildly over-caffeinated millennial that tells us we have to implement every shiny new object or we'll die? or Idea Killers? Much to my chagrin.

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Physical Retail Isn’t Dead – The Physical Store Model Is

PYMNTS

To save physical retail, anyone who wants to operate a physical store must convince consumers that it’s worth their time to—how’s this for an insight?—go Aided and abetted by mobile devices, apps and payments and logistics innovations have substantially improved the consumer’s digital shopping experiences. go there to shop.

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1M Users & Growing: 20+ Fintech Startups That Have Crossed The 1 Million Account Mark — And How They Got There

CB Insights

Technological innovation across the financial services space is growing. Series A in 2007. A number of specific factors are driving these changes: There are massive demographic shifts occurring in the market for customers, where millennials now make up the majority of the labor market.

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Mortgage Tech 101: What It Is & Why It’s Taking Off Now

CB Insights

Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert’s innovation in mortgages was to assign regional-specific loan application reviewers, who familiarized themselves with the regulations of certain geographies. Eighty percent of those customers were first-time home buyers and millennials were twice as likely to use their product as a competitor.

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2016 Words Of Wisdom: The CEO Edition

PYMNTS

” “And millennials, that segment of the population that never wanted to have much to do with traditional banks, will have yet another reason to thumb their noses at them and go somewhere else. From 1992 to 2007, it traded on the NYSE before being taken private by KKR.

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The Curious Case For Breaking Up Tech Giants

PYMNTS

And not even because they’re job destroyers, which he said is the natural consequence of innovation, and innovation is goodness. Fail — along with just about every other commerce initiative Facebook has tried to ignite using its platform, starting with Beacon in 2007. I saved the best for last — Apple and Apple Pay.

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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

Ninety-two million millennials will soon be in what Goldman Sachs calls their “prime spending years.” Bankrate found 83% of millennials don’t think they’ll ever retire: they simply “don’t think they’ll have the money” to do so.). Much of Mint’s early success can be tied to a very simple product innovation.

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