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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.

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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. Source: Payments Powering Platforms Tracker , powered by WePay.

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

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According to a recent survey from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), profits among the world’s corporate banking institutions is significantly declining – but digitization could halt that trend. Analysts say the tangible benefits of digitization and a happier end user are clear.

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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. rental market is massive, and we’ve seen a number of billion-dollar companies operate in real estate listings. Why, then, does the rent check endure?

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Matchmaking Millennials To The Experiences They Desire

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While millennials aspire to seek out meaningful experiences, they don’t necessarily have the spending power that enables them to do so. Many consumer businesses operate with very high fixed costs and oftentimes have excess capacity to fill, he explained. Many of the restaurants in Boston or across the U.S.