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Can a Mobile Lending App Save Millennial Credit Ratings?

Bank Innovation

Millennials hate credit — but a new service called Lenny is out to change that. Lenny is meant for mobile (of course) and launched today in California. It will reach Texas, Florida and New York in the next 10 to 12 months, according to the company, which claims that, in less than three Read More.

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What #Banking Trend Will Have the Greatest Impact on Your Bank?

Jeff For Banks

Consumer Demographics and Changing Customer Demands Remember all the pre-pandemic talk about millennials? You couldn't go to a conference without every presenter having millennial this or millennial that on their slide decks. Now the oldest millennial is 43 (see table by Statista).

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How Sezzle Wants To Help Millennials Without Sizzling Credit

PYMNTS

Among millennials, that number drops below 30 percent. Millennials don’t have credit cards because they don’t have FICO scores, or at least not the kind of FICO scores that inspire issuers. “If Paradis thinks that’s bad for millennials — many don’t agree — and the merchants who want their business. The Sezzle Experience.

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A Decade On, Lending Transformed By Crisis And Innovation

PYMNTS

And in lending, with the financial crisis in the rearview mirror, a decade on, invention – okay, innovation – has become a hallmark, at least in some corners. The trigger for the look back has of course has been the Sept. But a standstill in the credit markets created a vacuum for a bit, at least along traditional lending conduits.

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Focus: New-To-Credit Millennials, Credit-Rating Systems & Borrowing Credit

BankBazaar

Owing much to the changes in banking trends and the emergence of fintech companies, millennials across India have become open to the idea of borrowing credit. As millennials, we grew up in a system that regarded such credit products as ‘financial stressors’ and those opting for them were often looked upon as financially-screwed individuals.

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Salesforce On Digitizing The Mortgage Process — With An Eye On Millennials

PYMNTS

And according to Geoff Green, global head of mortgage and lending at Salesforce , the experience is ripe for change. The millennial borrower,” Green told PYMNTS, “expects to be able to go as far as they can with self-service. You can get wrist pains from writing your signature over and over again,” he said.

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Helping Millennials Live Financially Ever After

PYMNTS

That means some of the couples on the platform — no matter how long down the path a partnership is — will also want to have some private separate accounts like credit cards or lending products. Customers need to be more financially literate, of course, but they also need to be able to pair that knowledge with beneficial action.