Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Photo by Harold Daniels Derek Williams, president and CEO of Century Bank & Trust in Georgia, is bringing his passion for community banking to his term as ICBA chairman for 2023/24. Derek Williams and fellow Georgia community bankers at the 2013 ICBA Washington Policy Summit, now the Capital Summit.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2017

As New Mexico’s capital city, Albuquerque naturally put in a bid, but the state’s more southern offering may prove more interesting, as it straddles the U.S.-Mexico Amazon, Georgia. Stonecrest, Georgia, has promised to rename itself “Amazon, Georgia” if the eCommerce giant elects to put down its second set of roots in their soil.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Both have access to significant financial capital to scale far beyond what’s available to even well-funded startup challengers. This includes targeting the underbanked/unbanked, millennials, students, kids, freelancers, and early adopters of blockchain. Millennials. savings accounts. Underbanked/Unbanked.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

By the turn of the century, department stores had become the cornerstones of entirely new ecosystems that drove consumer consumption to record levels that, in turn, created new manufacturing, wholesale and supply chain opportunities for producers eager to capitalize on that demand.

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CB Insights

JULY 17, 2018

Instead, new millennial-inspired and tech-infused dining trends have been emerging across the US and internationally. Many of yesterday’s casual dining brands are dying, but not because millennials “don’t eat out.” The kombucha taproom: Cultured South (Georgia). Dining out. the Future of food report.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Ninety-two million millennials will soon be in what Goldman Sachs calls their “prime spending years.” A host of startups have emerged to capitalize on this trend. Bankrate found 83% of millennials don’t think they’ll ever retire: they simply “don’t think they’ll have the money” to do so.).

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Tools Millennials US Maine 78

Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 18, 2016

Millennial saving & investing app. HQ: Atlanta, Georgia. Startup capital raising platform. Tags: SMB, capital, crowdfunding, equity, investing. Latest round: $3.1 million Seed. Total raised: $4.2 HQ: New York City. Source: FT Partners. Latest round: $3 million Seed. Total raised: $3 million. HQ: London, England, UK.

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