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Digital-First Banking Branches Out

PYMNTS

How important are humans to your retail banking experience? 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. Is that what people really want? Turns out that’s inaccurate. Going to the Bank. But it’s a deceiving picture.

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Robinhood Faces Another Service Interruption Due To Technical Issue

PYMNTS

The financial technology company is regarded for helping to make trading in vogue with millennials, Reuters reported. “We Robinhood was at the heart of a recent increase in day trading, with retail investors stuck in their residences because of pandemic restrictions.

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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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Why Digital Marketplaces Must Anticipate Shoppers’ Needs

PYMNTS

Indonesian ride-hailing and online payment company GO-JEK , for instance, is expanding its financial technology services through partnerships with peer-to-peer (P2P) lending firms Dana Cita, Aktivaku and Findaya. Smartphones contributed one trillion dollars to overall retail sales in the United States during 2018.

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Financial Conferences this Fall Showcasing New Ideas and Innovation

William Mills

While this year will be remembered for: fintech labs and partnerships with traditional FI’s; the rise of millennials; and a push for real-time payments; I’ve been thinking a lot about how to gauge disruption and how we should view the messengers. Disruption in financial services depends on a company’s ability to handle scale.

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Getting Mobile Ready

Independent Banker

Research and everyday observation show how consumers are increasingly using mobile technologies. A consensus says that the future banking customer relationships—particularly for millennial consumers—will orbit to one degree or another around mobile technology. s entry into the payments business with Apple Pay.

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Is a cashless future all that it seems?

NCR

As expected the younger generation, millennials, are less concerned about move compared to those older. It would therefore seem to be “full steam ahead” with banks and the financial technology industry and media on the benefits of cashless, when reading many of these articles. Million (Retail Banking Research 2015).

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