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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

We have deep dives into unattended retail, rapid settlements and cybersecurity, as well as news on Mastercard receiving the go-ahead from China’s central bank to set up a bank clearing business. Speed matters for FinTechs aiming to bring new products to market digitally and to target consumers not well served by traditional banking models.

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JANUARY 8, 2021

The FinTech group is reportedly mulling setting aside a significant number of shares for users if it goes public, but it has yet to make any final decisions, according to Bloomberg, who cited unnamed sources. Robinhood ’s platform is popular with amateur retail investors, particularly millennials and Gen-Zers.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2019

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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Bobsguide

JULY 26, 2018

In the shadow of the credit crunch, Generation Millennial - born 1980-1995 - learned a valuable lesson, according to Christer Holloman, CEO of retail finance fintech, Divido. The retail finance industry, now standing at half a trillion dollars, has traditionally been dominated by a minority of.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

As many as 72 percent of bridge millennials say mobile apps are important for accessing bank accounts. In a bit of granular detail, the authority will offer up two “full bank” licenses, which will allow non-banking companies to offer a gamut of services, including taking on deposits from retail customers.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2018

Payment solution provider i2c recently announced a partnership with mobile banking FinTech Payfare to pay rideshare drivers using a prepaid Mastercard. Can a cash back program help millennials avoid the debt trap? As it turns out, millennials are more afraid of debt than of death. About the Tracker.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Venmo has also been adding features to differentiate itself, such as rolling out a cash-back rewards program for its Venmo Mastercard debit card at certain retailers, as announced in a press release. Venmo Rewards is now offering 5 percent cash back at Target, Sephora, Chevron and Papa John’s, and 4 percent cash back at other retailers.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 10, 2016

It’s not just millennial customers banks are adjusting to today — it’s millennial employees.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

For the connected consumer , connected commerce will be 100 percent digital , especially as the bridge millennials wield spending power across the next several decades. 2,225: The amount bridge millennials spend, on average, on annual retail purchases. trillion: The value of the leveraged loan market, as estimated by the FSB.

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BankInovation

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

It was a diverse week for investment in fintech automations, headlined by the largest-ever funding round targeting AI-driven tech from Asia. investors threw their support behind an intelligent document processing technology firm and an altruistic startup aiming to help millennials and others progress toward homeownership.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Synctera Brings 'FinTech As A Service' To Community Banks. FinTechs want to offer compliant banking services, while community banks want new ways to grow deposits. The FinTech as a Service launched Tuesday (Dec. Report: Millennials, Buy Now Pay Later And The Shifting Dynamics Of Online Credit. million in consumer losses.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2016

A lot of fuss is made over millennials and their proclivities toward things being easy. So, when it comes to something like digital banking , it’s not so much about finding what’s easy as it is about finding what service best meets millennials’ needs. Millennials to big banks: No thanks ….

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The expansion will now cover retail brands including H&M , O.N.S. Klarna’s 2020 Holiday Retail Report found that most U.S. In addition, 30 percent of shoppers, including 39 percent of Generation Z and millennials surveyed, would find a BNPL installment pay option a boost this year, according to the report.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2019

Founded in 2018, Joko’s loyalty program already works with dozens of major retailers including McDonald’s, Uber, Starbucks, Zara and more. Instead, the user is notified after their purchase and can check their points in the app, trading them for gift cards to several retailers or converting them into charitable donations.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Open Banking will make a transformational change to banking for personal customers and small businesses,” said Alasdair Smith, the CMA’s chairman of the retail banking investigation, when the group announced its findings earlier this year. As the U.K. ’s entrepreneurs are struggling in today’s financial services climate.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2019

Mastercard has moved into point-of-sale financing with the acquisition of Vyze, a FinTech firm the payment card network calls an “an end-to-end platform that facilitates financing options for merchants’ customers at checkout.”. As well, Bankrate has estimated that roughly 33 percent of millennials have cards.

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Bank Innovation

JULY 9, 2019

Savings app Digit is pinning its hopes on millennial and Gen Z customers who are storing up funds for a rainy day. “We serve a pretty diverse population relative to most finance and fintech companies, and the majority of our customers are actually women,” said Vishwas Prabhakara, Digit’s chief operating officer.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

According to a report in Fintech Futures , HSBC started the beta test with 15 retailers in Hong Kong. In the early part of 2017, HSBC announced the new payment app, geared toward millennials in Hong Kong who also wanted social media built in. bank plans to add more retailers to the beta test in the next few months.

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NCR

JUNE 29, 2016

Coming of age during the last recession and being subjected to the barrage of headlines about financial executives misbehaving, many Millennials are distrustful of established financial brands and institutions. are in the bottom 10 of the least loved brands by Millennials. are in the bottom 10 of the least loved brands by Millennials.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Trading FinTech Robinhood Markets Inc. The new funding is an outcropping of the Series G round unveiled in August for the firm, which is said to have helped millennials become interested in trading. has grown the size of its newest investment round to $660 million, Fox Business reported, citing a representative from the firm.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

These plans fund retail purchases that consumers can then pay off over time in typically four installments. A United Arab Emirates-based FinTech recently took in $23 million in Series A funding to power its delivery of such services. Interest in BNPL is not limited to the U.S.

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Payments Source

MAY 14, 2018

If an organization can’t evolve to create the level of customer experience expected, someone else will, writes Jay King, president of financial services for Alorica.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2017

In a press release , Vyze said the survey also revealed consumers continue to show loyalty to retailers with whom they have store cards , with 40 percent saying they are more likely to shop at that retailer again. That compares to 42 percent of overall respondents who are interested in alternative financing options.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2019

The company will partner with top fashion and beauty brands and retailers for the event, which offers its two million U.S. Discounts will be offered across retailers such as NARS Cosmetics, Schutz, APL, Steve Madden and more. The Australian FinTech firm launched in the U.S. The Australian FinTech firm launched in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2020

From telehealth to new financing options for patient treatments to big retailers like Walmart , Walgreens and CVS mashing up retail with healthcare, everyone from startups to incumbents are using the pandemic as an opportunity to disrupt — and reinvent — healthcare. Everyone From Pharma To FinTechs Is Also Involved.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2016

And that could be good news for FinTech firms or, rather, the folks who start them up and steer them into the arms of large-pocketed suitors. FinTech companies have been doing a good job of eating into banks’ turf, and yet it is the banks that are seemingly watching without really acting as quickly as they might or should.

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TheGuardian

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Fintech firms are jostling to offer millennials interest-free payment plans as they shop online. Labelled by some as “the future of millennial finance”, it has gained a foothold among the under-30s and those with tight finances, who have welcomed the ability to delay payment for goods, typically without interest.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

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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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Silicon Valley FinTech Affirm is rolling out a new app that will give customers a way to shop at almost any store and split their payments, the company announced in a press release on Monday (Oct. Half of Affirm’s users are millennials or Gen Z, the company says.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

FinTech competitors like Stripe and Square charge an additional fee to receive payments faster than one to two business days. JPMorgan’s strong Q2 performance can be credited to a growing millennial customer base and continued digital innovation. Some customers can already use the new feature. For example, Stripe charges 1.5

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Retailers scour social media to find influencers and designer bellwethers to turn trends into sales. In the payments ecosystem, we need look no further than the bridge millennial for how the connected purchasing experience will evolve over the next decade. Pundits identify bellwether states to predict election outcomes.

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Jeff For Banks

JULY 5, 2022

Then came this bubble generation they named millennials. Ever call your millennial child only to get a text back asking "what?" There is a fintech firm, SoFi, that was born in 2011, that focuses on millennials financial needs. Because that is what millennials needed at the time. We can ignore millennials no more.'

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2019

Over the past few years we’ve become the payment partner of choice for challenger banks and FinTechs looking to offer new retail or commercial banking solutions.” . that caters to millennials, has raised £50M ($62.4 billion dollars), making it the second-largest FinTech startup in Britain. Ireland, Nordic and Baltics.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Give a deep and welcoming hello to the newest form of window shopping — a consumer behavior that will help to shape retail in 2019 and beyond, and a trend that stands as an increasing part of shopping, one that promises to impact brick-and-mortar merchants as they decide how to innovate. That’s not to say physical retail is dying.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2020

FIs Or FinTechs: Who Will Power Banking’s Big Digital Shift? Retailing 2020: Five Things To Watch. Millennials Are Facing Their Second ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Financial Crash . Millennials Are Facing Their Second ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Financial Crash . Retail Reopening Hinges On Dangerous Discounts.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

The June 2020 Buy Now, Pay Later Tracker® notes that “…transaction volumes at furniture stores were up 61 percent, while home and garden items rose 26 percent among Generation Z consumers, 5 percent among millennials and 2 percent among Generation X consumers during the week ending April 11.” This news comes after Klarna announced the U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Morgan Chase is banking on QuickAccept to edge out FinTech rivals Square and PayPal. JPMorgan Chase is banking on QuickAccept to edge out FinTech competitors PayPal and Square. And, beginning next year, they will be able to spend their crypto collections with any of the 26 million retailers currently taking PayPal.

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