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Reimagining The Bar Experience Without The Booze 

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percent it fell in 2017 according to IWSR, an industry tracker for the drinks market. . Both Anheuser Busch and Boston Beer Company (better known as Sam Adams) have released their own versions of spiked seltzer. Folks in the Millennial generation have maybe a better sense of balance. In 2019 alcohol consumption in the U.S.

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Can ‘Elective’ Fees Work For Retail Banks?

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But that’s not stopping efforts at innovation and disruption in this space. Aspiration Bank is one of those innovators hoping to gain socially-conscious consumers via a pay-what-you-like fee structure — while also managing to please investors at the same time. The last such store closed earlier this year in Boston.

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The Connected Car: An Extension Of The Consumer’s Home

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It’s Boston. It’s February (or maybe it’s May, because it’s still snowing in Boston). The firms are eyeing a confluence of mobile commerce, digital marketing and ease of payments. So, if we look at millennials,” he said, “they have $400 billion in buying power today. Picture this. It’s snowing. The Available Data.

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Is It Time For Apple To Allow Others Access To The iPhone NFC Chip?

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You can see it in how investors are putting money to work in both consumer-facing and B2B startups, and how startups and incumbents are forging new partnerships to move innovation faster to market. And since iPhone users skew more to the affluent, it also denied those innovators the opportunity to monetize their spend.

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Gradifi CEO On Disrupting Student Loan Disruption

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In an interview with PYMNTS’ Karen Webster, Gradifi’s new CEO David Chang — all of a week and a half in his role and a PayPal alum (where he helmed that firm’s Boston office) — said that all too often in conversation with young borrowers, it becomes apparent that debt is steering their career choices. What’s On Offer.

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What Serving The Internet’s ‘Underserved’ Means For Payments

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That matters because as time goes by and existing cities become prohibitively expensive — think San Francisco, New York City and Los Angeles, with Chicago, Boston and other areas not far behind — many younger, well-educated consumers are making moves to exurban or even rural areas, or smaller cities.

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How Platform Payments Are Reimagining Rentals

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Consumers, particularly millennials, are increasingly paying their bills online. are paid online, with 61 percent of those payments coming from millennials. Zillow’s new offerings should bring attention, and customers, to the online rental market, Zahnd said, increasing the total volume of online rent payments.

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