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Green Dot Q2 Sees Organic Growth, Active Card Count Up

PYMNTS

Excluding UniRush, organic revenues were up 12 percent year over year — the first time that metric had been up double digits since the second quarter of 2015. Streit also said the company has entered an agreement to acquire a small tuck in secured credit card portfolio. . Top line was $222.5 million versus the Street at $208.6

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Not Down For The Count, Cash Still Counts For Plenty

PYMNTS

Brazil and Mexico — the total amount in cash payments for the region was $3 trillion in 2015, with weighted average cash use at 14 percent of GDP, with an estimated increase, annually, of 4 percent through 2020 in absolute dollars but a decline in percentage of GDP by 1.2 Turning to the Americas — defined as the U.S.,

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The Dawn Of A Cashless Global Economy?

PYMNTS

There are issues of transaction security, criminal elements, tax evasion, free flow of capital, access to goods and services and the ability to fully participate in the global economy. That would be millennials, ages 18–29, with 64 percent saying they prefer to use cards even for transactions under $5.

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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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Reflections on 2016 in financial services

NCR

EMV chip technology for credit and debit cards was rolled out in the US in October 2015. Meanwhile, in Indonesia, many consumers moved back to cash after the government launched a plan to tackle tax evasion by tracking all credit card transactions. Getting onboard with EMV.

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5 Reasons to expand small business lending

Abrigo

In the 2015 Growth Strategy Survey by Bank Director , the most commonly cited areas for growth were Commercial Real Estate Lending, C&I loans, SBA loans, and Construction loans. This is compounded by the growing trend of Millennial small business owners. Small businesses in the U.S. which means their capital needs fluctuate.

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Key trends in digital payments for 2016

Tomorrow's Transactions

Apple made the breakthrough of establishing biometrics in the mass market as a convenience technology rather than security technology, that’s been tremendously successful, and it’s going to continue. European Bank Income (Source: Deutsche Bank 2015). The millennials are happy with Venmo and so on. But what about the rest of us?

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