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The Coming Millennial FinTech Crisis

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While they enjoy many FinTech innovations, most millennials don’t have a snowball’s chance of earning more than their parents — ever. It’s one thing for the millennial offspring of the billionaire hedge-fund scions to fall short of making a billion because they only manage to pull down $760 million a year. It’s a fact.

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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. The Headwinds Creating The Innovations Gap . According to the latest edition of the Innovation Readiness report, only 22.3

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Mastercard’s Master Plan: Give Millennials What They Want

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is a rally cry that would perk the ears of many millennials, but how about “ Mastercard , assemble?”. Assemble for millennials is a toolkit that issuers, corporations and IBCUs can use to enable digital financial solutions, in this case targeting millennials, using a single-access digital prepaid product. What Millennials Want.

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Wellness in a world of Fintech

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And, according to the 2016 edition of PwC’s Employee Financial Wellness Survey , financial stress is on the rise, with Millennial’s typically in worse shape with regards to their personal finances than previous generations.

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What Payments Players Had To Say About Innovating Payments In A Pandemic

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When you look at the spending graphs for millennials at that time, debit was growing at twice the speed of credit, but the average order value was much lower, which correlates with the lower disposable income in the demographic at the time,” Molnar noted. The other is technological innovation. According to J.P.

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Alphabet’s New CEO, Millennial Black Friday Spending And Digital Drivers’ Licenses Top This Week’s News

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We have a deep dive into Colorado’s digital driver’s license effort and news on Alphabet’s new CEO, as well as data on millennial Black Friday spending. New Visa Alliances Help FinTechs Launch Payments Solutions. Visa is working with four global finance firms to help FinTechs issue digital and plastic payments. Top News

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P2P Payments’ Rising Appeal Beyond Millennials

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In the latest Disbursements Tracker , PYMNTS analyzes the impact of instant payments and disbursements in a variety of use cases and industries, as well as how payment innovation continues to grow and change in accordance with consumers’ disbursements needs. Instant Payment Innovations. Zelle competitor Venmo is also on the rise.