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What Hath Bridge Millennials Wrought To Commerce And Payments?

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The new year will bring a new round of one of the hottest games in the payments-and-commerce world: What makes millennials tick? Census, millennials are 25 to 34 years old. The reason for that is because data shows a significant difference in payments and commerce between this segment and the Census view of millennials.

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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. Necessity is the mother of invention. Behind the Numbers .

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Digital Banking, With Millennial, Mobile – And Governmental – Tailwinds

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As many as 72 percent of bridge millennials say mobile apps are important for accessing bank accounts. The company had received an account information service provider license from Danish authorities in 2018. As we noted in this space earlier in the summer, using apps to bank is markedly being embraced by the younger generation.

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Why Digital Lenders Are Tightening Their Lending Criteria

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In the early days of online lending, the big appeal was access to funds for potential borrowers with few, if any, options for securing capital. Kassul noted his firm used to invest in ABS from the lending marketplaces but, eventually, there just wasn’t enough profit in it. The Coming Risk Assessment Reset.

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Credit Unions’ Digital Future: More Like YouTube, Less Like Online Banking

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Millennials, Bridge Millennials and the rapidly up-and-coming Gen Z consumers mostly prefer digital banking as their go-to when they interact. For credit unions alone [in] 2015 and 2018, credit union market share of personal lending went from 31 percent to 22 percent. That result, Chambers noted, is just an average.

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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.

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Today In Payments: Chinese Tech Investments In US Plummet; Ransomware Attacks Up 41 Pct In 2019

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billion, and have dropped 84 percent since 2018, down to less than $560 million. In the fourth quarter of 2019, companies paid on average $84,116 to get their files back from online thieves. Reynolds CEO: Recreating Grocery’s Home Goods Aisle For The Millennial. China’s Central Bank To Start Re-Lending Funding To Fight Virus.

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