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Slice Integrates No-Fee Visa For Millennial Shoppers In India

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India’s pay-later app Slice is introducing a no-fee Visa card that offers its Gen Z and millennial customers cash back and no-cost EMIs during festive sales. “We Payments startup Slice was founded in 2016 to cater to the financial needs of the Gen Z and millennial generations.

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Millennials May Never Financially Recover From The Great Recession

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For all the press about how millennials are the future of commerce, there is one big and rather problematic roadblock in that narrative. Millennials are kind of broke – and they might always be. While other generational groups also lost ground during the Great Recession, millennials as a group have largely missed the recovery.

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China’s Millennials Driving Mobile Payments Market

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Millennials in China make the vast majority of the mobile payments taking place, eMarketer reported on Thursday (June 16). million users in 2016. Mobile device users ages 21–29 and 30–39 are leading the charge in the country’s mobile payments adoption. percent annually to reach 195.3 In comparison, the U.S. can claim only about 37.5

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Best New Financial Apps 2016, The List

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Robinhood: On Target Launched in December 2014, Robinhood is a zero-fee stock trading app that quickly gained popularity among financially ambitious millennials. Robinhood was paid the enormous compliment of having “cracked the millennial code” by none other than Jay Sidhu, CEO of Customers Bank and founder of BankMobile.

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Millennial Entrepreneurs’ Optimism Is Booming — Here’s Their Top Concern

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As millennials continue to grow their presence in the small business (SMB) community, the dynamics of SMB finance are also changing. According to some experts , millennial small business owners no longer accept mediocre or sub-par services from their financial providers. million millennials now make up more than a quarter of the U.S.

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Interesting Answers Edition: Wells Fargo, EMV And Millennial Card Usage

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Will anything ever excite millennials about credit cards? Wells Fargo — faced with $185 million in fines from the CFPB and the Office of the Comptroller of Currency over the public revelation of the fraudulent creation of over 2 million accounts — has arguably won the award for worst day at a bank in 2016. Elizabeth Warren.

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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.