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How banks can win the next generation of retail investors

Accenture

The market turmoil of 2020-2021, along with an unprecedented surge that has renewed a focus on retail investors, has pushed direct investing platforms into the spotlight. With this rise of the retail investor comes significant opportunity, as recently highlighted by our colleague Scott Reddel.

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Banks Must Up Their Social Media Game to Connect with Digital Natives

Gonzobanker

Traditional financial institutions that want to compete with fintech disruptors like Chime and X (formerly known as Twitter) need to up their social media game. The neobanking application with 15 million users reportedly spent $80 million on marketing in 2021. hours per day on social media.

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Mix-N-Match Fake Shopping Holidays For Fun And Profit

PYMNTS

For years, the weekend after Thanksgiving has been a harmonic convergence of made-up shopping holidays, concentrating Black Friday and Cyber Monday into three days of riotous retailing. Preposterous Observances for 2021. Finally, for this installment of fake holidays for 2021, Feb. This year, it falls on Nov. 11 did $74.1

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Bitcoin Daily: S. Korea Eyes Crypto Capital Gains Tax; Crypto Lawyers See Rise In Demand

PYMNTS

Crypto exchange Kraken , for example, plans to double its legal team’s size by 2021. Celebrities including Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled backed the project on social media. They falsely claimed to have a Harvard-educated CEO backing them. And, the U.S.

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L’Oréal, Instagram Lead Late-Year Social Commerce Push

PYMNTS

“So it’s no surprise that Instagram is making moves to replicate TikTok’s most popular features — especially in areas where TikTok hasn’t already amassed a strong foothold, like Brazil,” says social media fan site Later. “In Facebook previously launched a short-form standalone app Lasso, but it has failed to take off as yet.

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Department Store Redux? Scenario Planning For The DTC Business

PYMNTS

Anytime a startup like Scalefast can take $22 million off the venture capital table in the middle of a pandemic, things are changing. Now the new face of DTC will start to remake the rest of retailing. The direct-to-consumer category continues to grow with startups and early-stage companies looking to capitalize on the digital shift.

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Be Sure Your Business is Ready for the Coming Year!

FirstInternet

There’s no doubt that 2021 is going to be unlike any year before it, so whether your goal is to overcome lost revenue from the past year, or looking to build on a surprisingly strong 2020, there are things to consider to increase the potential for a more profitable year ahead. Time to be sure your business is ready to move forward!