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PYMNTS Daily Data Dive: Millennials Eschewing Credit Cards

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Credit card issuers will be encouraged by the latest data from The New York Fed. Credit card use, after many years of slowdown after the financial crisis of 2008, is now exploding. Among the Millennial generation, the level of credit card debt is at its lowest level since 1989, when data collection began.

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Millennials Are Buying More Gift Cards Than Ever — For Themselves

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Maybe millennials really are a self-centered bunch? New data suggests that they are buying more gift cards than ever before but then turning around and spending those cards on themselves. adults in June of this year to examine the shift in gift card consumers to prepaid and rechargeable cards issued directly from retailers.

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What’s Under The Millennial Christmas Tree This Year?

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However, after almost 50 years, it began to fade in the 1980s, disrupted by the emergence of store-branded credit cards. Yet, instead of offering the option to pay now and buy later, the credit cards reversed the order of operation and allowed customers to buy now and pay later over time. That’s not all. Other winners included O.M.G.

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P2P Payments’ Rising Appeal Beyond Millennials

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Venmo has also been adding features to differentiate itself, such as rolling out a cash-back rewards program for its Venmo Mastercard debit card at certain retailers, as announced in a press release. Square also offers small business loans and has a Visa debit card linked to the app, which lets users treat it like a bank account.

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The Coming Millennial FinTech Crisis

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While they enjoy many FinTech innovations, most millennials don’t have a snowball’s chance of earning more than their parents — ever. It’s one thing for the millennial offspring of the billionaire hedge-fund scions to fall short of making a billion because they only manage to pull down $760 million a year. It’s a fact. population.

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Millennials Vs. Baby Boomers: When Does The ‘Cashless Society’ Begin?

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More than one out of four millennials carry less than $5 cash with them. And according to another study, nearly 20 percent of millennials have not used cash in two months. With a fifth of millennials already rarely using cash, it is clear that this is happening relatively rapidly,” said Kalle Marsal, CMO of Mitek.

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Heads Up, Millennials: Chick-Fil-A Wants To Buy You Breakfast

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Lage and the release cited a recent Russell Research survey reporting that more than three quarters of millennial parents “being on the run,” with 60 percent wishing they had 15 more minutes to spend with their family. The first version of the app appeared back in 2012, with an option to order via mobile phone as an option in 2013.