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Who needs millennials?

Chris Skinner

I have had many, many conversations about reaching the millennial customer. We need to be attractive to millennials? Millennials think differently, how do we reach them? Millennials are rejecting banks, is that right? The challenge today is to think like a Millennial. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I claim they do.

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Robinhood May Sell Shares Directly To Users If It IPOs

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The FinTech group is reportedly mulling setting aside a significant number of shares for users if it goes public, but it has yet to make any final decisions, according to Bloomberg, who cited unnamed sources. Robinhood ’s platform is popular with amateur retail investors, particularly millennials and Gen-Zers.

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DoorDash, Airbnb IPOs; BNPL Trends; Pet Fraud Top This Week's News

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Synctera Brings 'FinTech As A Service' To Community Banks. FinTechs want to offer compliant banking services, while community banks want new ways to grow deposits. The FinTech as a Service launched Tuesday (Dec. Report: Millennials, Buy Now Pay Later And The Shifting Dynamics Of Online Credit.

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How A Bank And A FinTechs Are Jointly Cracking The Code On Financial Inclusion

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The favored narrative about banks and FinTech startups is generally not a love story. Whereas FinTechs are undoubtedly newer and faster – risen from the digital age to put banks out of business – they aren’t always able to take deposits or keep some of those associated warranties. Usually, it is more of an all-out war story.

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Watson Marketing Delivers a Competitive Edge that Financial Institutions can Bank On

Insights on Business

Pressures stem from a myriad of sources: competition from fintechs; unrelenting regulatory environment; associated costs of compliance (or non-compliance!); increasingly sophisticated security threats; and, most recently, shifting customer expectations driven in large part by millennials. All is not doom and gloom.

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Faster Payments Readies Global Payroll For A Paradigm Shift

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But this expanded talent pool not only compounds the complexities and volume of payroll tasks, but as Guez noted, compliance can quickly turn into a headache. “It Compliance is still a major challenge. GDPR and similar legislation are tied with payroll because of all the personal data that goes into payroll calculation.

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The JOBS Act Eyes A New Generation Of SMB Investors

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It’s an opportunity for FinTechs, too, to develop new platforms through which SMBs can access a new form of capital without facing some of the drawbacks of other financing processes. Indeed, experts agree that the JOBS Act will gradually forge new paths as FinTechs explore how to wield the legislation and promote SMBs’ access to capital. “SBA

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