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The Year In Data: Measuring 2020’s Payments Innovation

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Key Data Points: Consumers are performing 12 percent more activities at home in 2020 than they did in 2019 and making purchases during 12 percent of those activities, on average. Key Data Points: 46 percent of SMBs experienced an increase in demand for their products or services. percent made purchases via mobile in the last 24 hours.

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DATA: How FI’s Innovation Gap Is Big Tech’s Big Opportunity

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It’s really difficult, the banking ecosystem is not fast and that’s just reality,” Jim McCarthy, industry expert and former innovation head for Visa, told Karen Webster in a recent conversation. And according to the data — consumers are increasingly warming up to the idea of taking them up on that offer.

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Deep Dive: Travel, Hospitality Get A Millennial Makeover

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Millennials have long been sought-after travel and hospitality customers, partly because they are perfectly placed to seek such experiences. This unique status creates both opportunities and challenges for firms in the space, as millennials search for the experiences they crave. Furthermore, millennials are set to spend $1.4

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Reynolds CEO: Recreating Grocery’s Home Goods Aisle For The Millennial

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In 1910, the world of foil enjoyed its most important historical innovation: The Swiss figured out how to make it out of aluminum instead of tin. Therefore, the company must always be innovating its offerings, despite the fact that Reynolds wrap has been a successful product for 73 years. Moving On Millennials .

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Serving The Millennial Consumer With Convenient Offerings

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Reynolds Group Holdings is actively working to court the millennial market , which has a particularly strong focus on convenience. For this reason, the firm has focused keenly on recipe integration in recent years — and, as it turns out, millennials are excellent recipe followers. All this, Today in Data.

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Deep Dive: Why Contactless Payment Innovation Is Key For CUs Amid The Pandemic And Beyond

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The following Deep Dive examines the interest in contactless payments among credit union members and the opportunity for the CU space to meet members’ changing payment needs through digital innovation. It will likely alter global markets and regulations as the financial ecosystem becomes more digitized.

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Millennial Small Business Owners Are Most Optimistic About 2018 Growth, BofA Survey Says

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The most optimistic owners are millennials, according to data from the Bank of America Fall 2017 Small Business Owner Report. The survey of about 1,000 small businesses, released last week, found that the majority of millennial entrepreneurs (81%, the survey […].