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Razer Fintech, Visa Pitch New Prepaid Card To Young Adults In Singapore

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Razer Fintech and Visa have unveiled a new prepaid card, dubbed the Razer Card, now in its test phase. The Singapore-based financial technology company said the move is part of its goal of establishing “the world’s first global youth bank.”.

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VC Fintech Investing Declines In First Quarter

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Investing on the part of venture capitalists in financial technology startups — otherwise known as FinTechs — declined during the first quarter of 2019, with China feeling the most pain. In the first quarter of 2018 venture funding going toward FinTechs stood at $6.2 It has a valuation of $2.7

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Aussie FinTech Douugh Introduces ‘Savings Jar’ With Mastercard Debit

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Australian consumer FinTech company Douugh is kicking off its visual “Savings Jar” feature as it widens the availability of its artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted bank account with a Mastercard debit card, Mastercard said in a press release on Thursday (Sept. million-plus millennials in the country. . Accelerate 2.0

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Macro Trends and Millennials: AFT Spring Summit Meeting

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The Association for Financial Technology (AFT) held its 2016 Spring Summit Meeting in Orlando, Florida this year, and both Kelly Williams and I made the trip to learn more about what’s happening right now in the banking industry as well as what trends to expect in the future. Millennials make up 80 million people in the U.S.

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Singapore’s Hong Leong Eyes SMBs In Virtual Banking Pursuit

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The company is currently in talks with FinTechs about a joint application for one of the licenses, said President Ang Tang Chor, adding that Hong Leong would like to attract more millennials and newly established firms to its customer base. “We The FinTechs have one advantage: they lend against data,” Ang said.

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Digital-First Banking Branches Out

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We’ve all heard that millennials, for example, think of bank branches as a vestiges of another century with little relevance to their financial lives. Even millennials, who heavily lean on remote banking, still visit physical bank locations for more complex functions like loan applications” monthly. Turns out that’s inaccurate.

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SoFi Sees Investor Accounts Double Thanks To Fractional Shares

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CEO Anthony Noto told CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” that the FinTech company’s investing platform has seen a significant uptick in user numbers since January. Founded in 2011, SoFi made its reputation by refinancing student loans for millennials. Since then, it has expanded its financial products to offer personal and mortgage loans.

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