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How Payment Platforms Connect Merchants With Augmented Reality

PYMNTS

To let shoppers discover and try out new products, payment companies are helping merchants launch augmented reality (AR) experiences within social media platforms. The firm chose a Kenyan brand, Huddah Cosmetics , as the first social commerce merchant on its Mula service to roll out the platform.

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For Macy’s and Men’s Wearhouse, No Millennial Tux and Tails Tailwind

PYMNTS

It’s been chronicled in these virtual pages that millennials are the driving force behind change – change in how payments are done, how banking is banked, how social media influences commerce (or doesn’t) and how shopping may become a hybrid of high touch across the digital and physical realms.

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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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Revolve Rides The Power Of Influencers All The Way To An IPO

PYMNTS

The brand largely focuses on (and sells to) younger shoppers — particularly millennials and Gen Z. But of course the more interesting information in that SEC filing is the news that Revolve is about to take its large audience — 7.3 million unique visitors come to shop its wares each month — and make a move on the public markets.

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Mobile Cards Key To Winning Bank Accounts

PYMNTS

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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The open banking opportunity

Accenture

Of course, some of this investment came from banks. The drive towards open banking gives them a direct line into a potentially lucrative market. And, crucially, it’s a market where they’re well placed to deliver the flexible, personalized experiences consumers demand. That’s no surprise. So why not? Let us know what you think.

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

PYMNTS

That’s understandable, given how viciously email, texting and other forms of digital and mobile communication have displaced actual writing — which, of course, would seem to reduce the need for actual stationery products. Millennials to the Rescue. The move has much more to do with the decline of handwriting, of course.

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