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Macro Trends and Millennials: AFT Spring Summit Meeting

William Mills

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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Today In Data: Providers Push For Enhanced mPOS Features

PYMNTS

Financial technology providers are partnering up to offer expanded mPOS capabilities to merchants, which are looking for tools to avoid long checkout lines. charitable giving market come from online donations , and the canned tuna industry is adapting to the tastes of millennials and younger consumers amid a decline in consumption.

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10 Top Banking Podcasts You Should be Listening to

Abrigo

Banking Transformed Banking Transformed by the Financial Brand’s Jim Marous has new episodes several times a month and features executives from financial institutions, financial technology firms, authors, consultants, and other experts in the banking industry. Banking Resources.

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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 Applications are due by the end of the year.

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Why Community Banks Can’t Afford To ‘Wait and See’ About Faster Payment Innovations

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The report included several recommendations for banks, FinTechs and other financial services players — guidelines to establish an industry-driven framework for governing the system and encourage further research and investment in emerging financial technologies. Millennials Moving Into And Up In The Business World.

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Transformation Time Bomb?

Independent Banker

Three ways millennials could accelerate FinTech trends in 2016. When it comes to finance, millennials are a generation known to be conservative in spending and distrustful of financial institutions. Thus, it’s not shocking that millennials are a driving factor in the growing financial technology, or FinTech, movement.

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ICBA: Building Bridges For The Next Generation Of Community Banks

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Community banking can be one of the most rewarding and most challenging areas of financial services in which to work — that’s the view, anyway, of Rebeca Romero Rainey, president and CEO of Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) , who recently joined the nation’s leading advocacy organization that exclusively represents community banks.