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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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Visa Gauges Contactless Payments Progress 10 Years After Its Introduction

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is leading contactless payments adoptions 10 years after the technology first emerged, according to a new report from Visa. say they have used contactless card technology to make a payment since the technology was first launched in September 2007. Unsurprisingly, millennial consumers are driving this trend.

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Greyhound Drives Omnichannel Security With AI, Advanced Learning Tools

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Dallas-based busing line Greyhound is all too familiar with such problems, prompting it to implement advanced learning technologies to secure ticketing. Greyhound, which United Kingdom-based FirstGroup purchased in 2007, serves more than 16 million riders each year across the U.S. Rolling out dynamic pricing models, mobile apps .

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Zillow, Bots And The Future Of Real Estate

PYMNTS

That growth has been remarkably inconsistent — Northern California has met and surpassed 2007 averages several times over, but there are whole sections of Florida still dotted with McMansions half built. That is not quite accurate — and as we’ve previously covered, millennials seem plenty enthusiastic to buy homes.

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Why The Gap Needs Athleta To Stay Fit

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When Gap bought Athleta in 2008 for $150 million, the move didn’t cause much of a stir — beyond being considered a hedge play by the retailer against the exploding popularity of Canadian athleisure brand lululemon , which debuted its initial public offering (IPO) in 2007. We’re not like, ‘Oh, it’s all about millennials.’

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Online Lending And A Tale Of Two Fed Studies

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” The study examined data from TransUnion that identified about 90,000 customers who had taken out an online loan between 2007 and 2012. The Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank captured a lot of headlines with the release of its online lending study – particularly due to its use of the words “predatory” and “needs additional regulation.”

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Bankers and Strategic Bets. A Slow Embrace.

Jeff For Banks

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? Sticking with the Apple theme, in 2007, they launched the iPhone. Maybe those millennial futurists don't remember this. Much to my chagrin.

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