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Might Millennials’ Dissatisfaction Hint At Housing Downturn To Come?

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News came this week, as noted across sites such as CNBC , that millennial homeownership has been creeping along. Bankrate polled 1,500 homeowners, and found that 63 percent of millennials say they have regrets about having bought the home they are in. PayPal Lending: Takes off in the U.K. , percent, compared to 11.9

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A Decade On, Lending Transformed By Crisis And Innovation

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And in lending, with the financial crisis in the rearview mirror, a decade on, invention – okay, innovation – has become a hallmark, at least in some corners. But a standstill in the credit markets created a vacuum for a bit, at least along traditional lending conduits. Mortgages and Credit Cards and Student Debt…. Mortgages ?

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Gen Z’s Friendlier Relationship With Credit

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And based on early indications, it seems the follow-up act to the millennial generation is much more positively inclined toward using credit products of all stripes. Far more millennials and Gen Xers make use of credit cards than Gen Zers – at 38.29 Credit cards, however, show the greatest strength. card accounts.

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Gen Z’s Friendlier Relationship With Credit

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And based on early indications, it seems the follow-up act to the millennial generation is much more positively inclined toward using credit products of all stripes. Far more millennials and Gen Xers make use of credit cards than Gen Zers – at 38.29 Credit cards, however, show the greatest strength. card accounts.

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Disbursements By Voice Are Growing In Popularity – And Other Instant Disbursements Trends

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For instance, instant payments are most prevalent in the worlds of wages, insurance disbursements and lending payouts, according to the survey results. percent as of 2018. However, only 51 percent of receivers said they were offered a payment choice for insurance- and lending-related payouts. percent in 2019 and 9.5

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Why Digital Payments Innovation Sticks To Gen Z

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For its part, Venmo now has an option to transfer money to the bank without a debit card for the same fee. And there is a credit card angle, too, which will apply to dealing with Gen Z users of P2P going forward. Most of these P2P players still allow consumers to use credit cards to fund these transfers,” he said.

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AltFin’s Bumpy Ride Into An Uncertain 2019

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Charles Dickens’ famous starter to A Tale of Two Cities , as it turns out, is a pretty good way to sum up the year 2018 from the view of the alternative financial services segment. However, as 2018 wore on, headwinds started to blow back on the segment, most especially in the form of rising interest rates.