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Chase Sapphire Brand Expanding Into Checking Accounts

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is expanding the Sapphire credit card brand into new areas of personal finance, including checking accounts. According to the report, the Sapphire Reserve card is popular among millennials because of the generous rewards points, which cater to their desire to travel. JPMorgan Chase & Co.

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Mobile Payments: Samsung To Tackle Africa And Google The App Landscape

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Meanwhile, Samsung is tackling the African market ahead of Apple and Android, and Google announces a way to avoid app downloads. Millennials Eschew Bank Mobile Wallets. The study found that both millennials and non-millennials want to use mobile to manage finances, and cash is becoming less important to both groups.

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eBay Debuts reCommerce Marketplace

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21) that it is launching a new destination for electronics products to feature Certified Refurbished products, not from its sellers but from brands like De'Longhi, Dirt Devil, Hoover, Makita, Philips and Razer, which will sell exclusively on the eBay platform. The reCommerce trend continues to gain momentum. eBay announced on Wednesday (Oct.

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The Big Voice Showdown In Vegas

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The lucrative “ bridge millennial ” consumer segment — relatively high-earning and highly educated, and approaching their peak earning years — are particularly fond of this technology, with 31 percent reporting ownership of a voice-activated device and 55 percent of those owners using them to make a purchase. No device, no Alexa.

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Teenager-Focused Digital Bank Wins Fresh Funding

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Much thought is given to millennials and even Generation Z — consumers who were born during fixed periods of time, and who are having an increasing impact on payments and commerce. The first-of-its-kind app is a safe and secure alternative for teens to make purchases and send money to one another, the company said.

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Mobile Payments: What’s In It For Me?

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South Korea has 11 mobile payment services such as KakaoPay, Naver Pay and Samsung Pay, and around 28 million cards were loaded onto users’ smartphones in the second quarter. Samsung Pay provides gift cards from Dunkin’ Donuts, and users earn money with its own rewards prepaid card. But security is an ever-present concern.

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Linking The Merchant To EMV

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And for one firm, cloud gateway and data security provider Merchant Link , the process proceeds apace for hospitality and dining firms looking for certification, according to CIO Scott Carcillo. There’s a demographic push at work here, too, said Carcillo, which he defined as “millennial consumer groups.”.

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