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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. Source: PYMNTS.com longitudinal study of over 40,000 consumers (data from the most recent panel on Nov. consumers — 47.2 23-25, 2020.

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Can ‘Elective’ Fees Work For Retail Banks?

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Indeed, some 88 percent of consumers don’t see a reason to switch to other financial institutions, according to a recent PYMNTS and Green Dot study. But that’s not stopping efforts at innovation and disruption in this space. The last such store closed earlier this year in Boston. Only 6 percent are from L.A.,

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The Rise Of Card-on-File Commerce

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One of the best things that happened last week was the reopening of hair salons in Boston. It doesn’t appear that this experience is exclusive to fancy hair salons in Boston. That’s likely why in PYMNTS’ national study of 14,000 consumers, more than half (58.6 This latest study of a national sample of U.S. population.

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Gradifi CEO On Disrupting Student Loan Disruption

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Drilling down a bit, in one study, by Oliver Wyman, 70 percent of college students who earn bachelor’s degrees borrow to get to their alma maters. The burden can be such, said the study, that student loan payments can exceed what it costs to lease a car or own a home. What’s On Offer.

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Are Retailers Ready For Amazon?s Prime Time?

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Then I went to Whole Foods on the North Shore of Boston Saturday morning to do some grocery shopping. I’ve been a Whole Foods shopper since I moved to Boston 17 years ago for the same reasons that each of you may be too: organic meat, seafood, produce and foods, great bread and cheese and a fun vibe. Prime Time at the Grocery Store.

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Innovation in the Asset Management industry

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On the “Beta” end of the scale, ETFs are steadily becoming one of the most successful innovation in recent decades. Affluent millennials hold 52 percent of their money in cash and 28 percent in stocks, compared with 23 percent and 46 percent for older people, a UBS survey released in the first quarter found.

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What Amazon HQ2, Interchange Fees And Facebook Have In Common

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Our own studies show that more than 14 percent of all consumers over the age of 18 living in the U.S. own voice-activated speakers, as do more than a third of the 30- to 40-year-old bridge millennials. The study authors are quick to point out, doesn’t mean that consumers would pay $1,000 to have a Facebook account.

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