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Millennials Are the Future for Community Banks

Finer Points

The nation’s millennials—the biggest and most diverse generation of customers in our nation’s history—account for more than $1 trillion in annual purchasing power. And according to ICBA’s recently released 2014 American Millennials and Banking Study, this generation represents a major opportunity for community banks.

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Boomers Vs. Millennials: Holiday Shopping … In September?

PYMNTS

It’s still technically summer for a few more days, but we already know how shoppers — Baby Boomers and millennials — are going to shop this holiday season. But how are Baby Boomers and millennials going to gift this year? Those millennials simply just say, “No, thanks.”. So, what are millennials buying? Who’s online?

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How Millennial Ethics Are Reshaping Fintech

CB Insights

Over the next few decades, baby boomers and Gen X will pass on $30T in wealth to the millennial generation. More than any other generation, millennials are interested in the idea that their investments will have a positive global impact when it comes to issues like sustainability and climate change. PREPARE FOR THE FINTECH FUTURE.

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How Can Banks Thrive in the Next Five Years?

Jeff For Banks

Then came this bubble generation they named millennials. Ever call your millennial child only to get a text back asking "what?" There is a fintech firm, SoFi, that was born in 2011, that focuses on millennials financial needs. Because that is what millennials needed at the time. We can ignore millennials no more.'

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3 Tips for Targeting Millennial Entrepreneurs

NCR

And there’s no better way to target Millennial entrepreneurs than with the technology they crave to help them in their business pursuits. More than any other generation, Millennials experience life, work and business through technology and they expect seamless interactions regardless of location.

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Uber Co-Founder Kalanick Supports Expansion Of 3D-printed Hotel

PYMNTS

An idea hatched at the Burning Man desert arts festival, the experience-focused hospitality group Habitas was founded in 2014 by Oliver Ripley, Kfir Levy and Eduardo Castillo. . We are focusing more on the people, the community, the experiences — a little bit like Club Med for our generation,” Ripley told the Financial Times.

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Crossing the Mobile Divide

Independent Banker

How millennials will accelerate innovation and technology change. You recognize one of today’s most prominent technology dilemmas for community banks: It’s the great mobile divide. It’s where older, profitable customers have been slower to adopt new banking technologies that not-yet-profitable millennials pick up quickly and easily.

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