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Can Millennials Revive Call Center Commerce?

PYMNTS

Millennials have long borne the blame for a variety of problems in commerce, including the decline in popularity of diamonds and certain fast casual restaurants. Millennials could be helping to bring new life to call center commerce. Millennials are increasingly seeking access to luxury goods — including relatively affordable items.

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Baby Boomers Vs. Millennials: Eerily Similar?

PYMNTS

While most millennials were brought up in the age of the computer, baby boomers can remember a time when they weren’t surrounded by technology. It’s a peculiar dichotomy to compare millennials to their parents’ generation, the baby boomers. percent, millennials (who are in part to blame for this) aren’t the main contributing factor.

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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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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.

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Twitch Buys Bebo In eSports Push

PYMNTS

Bebo began in 2005 as a social networking platform by Michael and Xochi Birch. The growth path of the company in addition to the larger opportunity in social media helped it get acquired by AOL for approximately $850 million in 2008. It was said to have become “the market leader” in some countries such as Ireland and the U.K.

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Banking for the Digital Generation: Attracting & Retaining Millennials

NCR

Coming of age during the last recession and being subjected to the barrage of headlines about financial executives misbehaving, many Millennials are distrustful of established financial brands and institutions. are in the bottom 10 of the least loved brands by Millennials. are in the bottom 10 of the least loved brands by Millennials.

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

Accenture

For years, we’ve heard people proclaiming the demise of the bricks-and-mortar bank branch, supposedly swept away by customers’ mass-migration to online and—increasingly—mobile alternatives. But as our latest UK banking consumer survey— Beyond Banking —confirms, there’s still plenty of life in the bank branch.