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Millennials SME Owners Prefer Online Alternative Lenders to Tradtional Ones

Bank Innovation

small businesses, specifically and unsurprisingly with those run by millennials, according to a new report by Mercator Advisory Group. According to Mercator’s report, Business Banking Services: Keeping Up with Millennial Owners, 27% of total U.S. Online alternative lenders are gaining momentum with U.S.

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PFM MoneyLion’s Appeal to Millennials, Gen Z Is Simplicity, Says ‘Godfather of Fintech’

Bank Innovation

A focus on simplicity and UX design that intimately appeals to younger users such as millennials and Gen Z users, fintech investor Ron Suber told Bank Innovation. EXCLUSIVE—What’s behind the growth of personal finance management platform MoneyLion?

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How Millennial Ethics Are Reshaping Fintech

CB Insights

Over the next few decades, baby boomers and Gen X will pass on $30T in wealth to the millennial generation. PREPARE FOR THE FINTECH FUTURE. As investor preferences shift, download our free 106-page fintech report to see what trends to watch in 2019. GET THE 106-PAGE FINTECH TRENDS REPORT. But a shift is happening.

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Millennials Actually Trust Traditional Banks More than Venmo

Bank Innovation

No matter what industry you’re in, the chance of success depends on the knowledge and insight you have regarding your customer base, which for both traditional banking institutions and fintech startups means focusing on millennials.

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Do Fintech Lender Myths Hold Up? Not Exactly, TransUnion Says

Bank Innovation

EXCLUSIVE–Are fintech lenders really more risky, more desperate for customers, and more appealing to millennials? As a credit reporting agency, TransUnion has a wealth of data on lenders, including fintechs, and put these rumors to the test with its newstudy, Fact or Fiction: Are Fintechs Different from Other Lenders?

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How Small FIs’ SMB Lending Journeys Nudge The US Toward Open Banking

PYMNTS

As Mark Rockefeller, co-founder and chief executive officer of small business lending-as-a-service provider StreetShares , told PYMNTS in a recent interview, that pressure to digitize expands to credit unions and community banks in their SMB lending offerings, too, and do it profitably. “This is an extraordinary thing. .”

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With Home Equity Lacking, Will Millennials Embrace POS Financing?

PYMNTS

Against this backdrop, we find, then, that millennials do not embrace credit cards as readily as other groups of users. Bankrate has estimated that roughly 33 percent of millennials have cards. FinTechs have been stepping in to feed demand for installment loans. Square late last year introduced an installment plan offering.