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Best New Financial Apps 2016, The List

Bank Innovation

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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What You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know About Millennials

PYMNTS

Millennials as a generation are probably the most speculated and talked-about generation in human history. More seriously, millennials are increasingly viewed as a generation a bit in peril. Millennials Bowl. As it turns out, millennials love sriracha, yoga pants, Netflix, chilling, Snapchat and bowling. There are 75.4

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Why bank branches—and human contact—are not going away any time soon

Accenture

Given that this trend is coinciding in with an ongoing shift by younger consumers towards more innovative channels—the likes of wearables, social media and instant messaging—it’s possible that the continued strong usage of branches is a transitory effect. But our study gives no indication of that.

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Innovation Trix You Can Learn From Breakfast Children’s Cereal

PYMNTS

For all the plaudits disruptive innovation gets, it is easy to overlook how hard it is to achieve. While it’s an exaggeration to say there is nothing new under the sun, it’s actually not that big of an exaggeration in the innovations realm. But, sometimes, the innovation just really whiffs. The iPhone 8 springs to mind.

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The open banking opportunity

Accenture

We know almost US$1 billion was invested in PSD2-enabled services in 2016, up 200 percent from the year before¹. Based on this survey of over 2,000 consumers, it’s clear that online retailers, tech firms and social-media players face an uphill battle to convince consumers to allow them access to their financial data. So why not?

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Marketers Focus On Mobile Shopping For The Holidays

PYMNTS

Mobile coupons are still popular, especially among millennials. According the to 2016 Purse String Survey done by Valassis earlier this year, more than 70 percent of consumers say they have looked for coupons or offers while in-store via their mobile device. For millennials, that number is 90 percent.

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Coachella’s Contextual Commerce: The Good, The Bad And The Flower Crown Ugly

PYMNTS

But setting up shop on the edge of the festival and hawking blatantly branded products is a little too gauche for Coachella attendees who want to preserve the festival’s sanctity (whether it ever existed or not), which leads more than a few companies to turn to social media and the tricks of contextual commerce.