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What Is Powering The Emerging Pawnaissance?

PYMNTS

At the low end of the spectrum, consumers will pay an APR of 25 percent a month, roughly comparable with a high-rate credit card. As of 2019, Smart Financial operates around 87 pawn shops spread across Arizona, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia and three Canadian provinces.

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How 60+ Startups Are Disrupting Retail And Commercial Banking Around The World

CB Insights

The core product is a digital-first app that tracks spending from a linked card issued by either MasterCard or Visa. Additional services range from checking accounts, savings accounts, direct and cash deposits, peer-to-peer transfers, and pre-paid or top-off cards that can be accessed digitally. Millennials.

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‘Stranger Things’ And Starcourt Mall Teach Us About Big Tech And Innovation

PYMNTS

Little known fact: Leach writes in his book that Georgia O’Keefe made a tidy sum in 1927 by painting posters that graced department store walls and windows. The season takes place in the year 1985 – 10 years before eCommerce and Amazon, and seven years before today’s 27-year-old millennials were born.

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We analyzed 7 of the fastest-growing personal finance apps of all time to figure out the secrets to their success — here’s what we learned

CB Insights

Ninety-two million millennials will soon be in what Goldman Sachs calls their “prime spending years.” These companies are making it easier to make a budget, invest, and buy stocks, as well as to get loans and credit cards. Robinhood’s clutter-free user interface design is flypaper for millennial audiences. bank accounts.

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Finovate Fall 2016 Live Blog – Day 1

William Mills

With CRMnext, replacing a lost card or request a new pin is a one button process. Demo: voice conversation with Alexa, able to ask bank account balance, block cards, pay bills, send money to friends. I think cards from Dynamics ARE big in Canada. Bolt on to your bank card and can create a custom integration.

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Fintech Fundings: 28 Companies Raise $330 Million Week Ending Jan 15

Fintech Labs Insights

Millennial saving & investing app. HQ: Atlanta, Georgia. Tags: Enterprise, B2B2C, payments, mobile, SDK, API, developers, credit/debit cards. Integrated payment processor. Latest round: $10 million Series B. Total raised: Unknown. HQ: Shanghai, China. Source: Crunchbase. SaaS banking platform. Latest round: $8.73

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Fintech Fundings: 36 Companies Raise $480 Million Week Ending March 18

Fintech Labs Insights

HQ: Atlanta, Georgia. Alt-lender targeting millennials . Tags: SMB, merchants, payments, acquiring, credit/debit cards. Source: Crunchbase. Connecture. Health insurance distribution platform. Latest round: $52 million (post-IPO equity). Total raised: $75+ million. Source: Crunchbase. Cumulus Funding. Total raised: $7.85

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