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Mobile Cards Key To Winning Bank Accounts

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Mobile Cards: Make or Break? One way that banks or ambitious social media platforms will win this combat for customers is through the use of mobile credit and debit cards, with a highly configurable nature and full range of card and spend management controls to please the most vacillating of customers.

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Millennial Entrepreneurs’ Optimism Is Booming — Here’s Their Top Concern

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As millennials continue to grow their presence in the small business (SMB) community, the dynamics of SMB finance are also changing. According to some experts , millennial small business owners no longer accept mediocre or sub-par services from their financial providers. million millennials now make up more than a quarter of the U.S.

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Millennials Vs. Baby Boomers: When Does The ‘Cashless Society’ Begin?

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More than one out of four millennials carry less than $5 cash with them. And according to another study, nearly 20 percent of millennials have not used cash in two months. With a fifth of millennials already rarely using cash, it is clear that this is happening relatively rapidly,” said Kalle Marsal, CMO of Mitek.

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Communicating With Millennials

William Mills

3 topics to discuss with Gen Y members through blogs, social media and video. Millennials have misgivings about Wall Street, making credit unions ideal financial institutions to capture this demographic group’s business. Debt is a controversial topic for millennials since many are still struggling with student loans.

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Despite Papyrus’ Closing, Stationery Retail Is Not All Doom-And-Gloom

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Papyrus parent company Schurman Retail Group had been attempting to renegotiate lease terms for its stores, but apparently not enough concessions were made to help save the company’s locations,” the report stated. Millennials to the Rescue. The chain had since expanded to some 260 or so retail locations. Brick-and-Mortar View.

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Fighting Financial Awkwardness With Faster Payments?

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The peer-to-peer mobile payment service offers a social media element aimed at making the exchange of money more fun for both sides of the transaction. billion in Q1 2017 — tackles feelings of financial discomfort by giving consumers a more engaging option to settle debts, by mixing social media with finances.

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Trust And Speed Light A New Path To Omnichannel Retail

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“Over the last years, that shift [has intensified],” Parsons said, noting that about two generations ago, the first payment card was not even plastic, but paper — something most consumers today are unable to recall or likely believe. Desires sometimes contradict each other — or, at the least, serve to make a retailer’s job harder.

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