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Why Pride Vendors Are Forgoing Cash For mPOS

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Skirting Cash Shortages at Boston Pride. Boston’s pride celebration is one of the season’s biggest events for Mandy Roberge, the owner and artist behind Wicked Good Henna. The 2018 Boston Pride parade reportedly saw more than 750,000 spectators and over 55,000 marchers. Customers] recognize the reader [I use],” Kim said.

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As Bill Payments Go Digital, The Rental Industry Still Lags

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Younger consumers are leading the way when it comes to online bill payments, with 61 percent of those payments coming from millennials. That growth came, in part, at the expense of bill-paying sites and services operated by banks. The rental industry could well be the next market to undergo that shift.

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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. Government Efforts.

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Amid Blockchain And Robotics Hype, Corporate Lenders Still Start With The Cloud

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Josh Glover, EVP of the Americas at banking technology provider nCino, said that when it comes to corporate banking and lending, the end-user experience is just as much of a focus for traditional banks engaging in digital transformation as it is in the consumer banking market.

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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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Blue Apron Turns 7 As Meal Kit Industry Grows Up

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We at PYMNTS, being writers, don’t do cakes and gifts for birthdays, but instead prefer writing retrospective stories like this, treatments that serve not only as a history of a particularly newsworthy company, but also a glimpse into the future of the industry in which it operates. Back to 2012. The timing seemed perfect.

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