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How 60+ Startups Are Disrupting Retail And Commercial Banking Around The World

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Startups targeting retail and commercial banking have been emerging globally, spurred by favorable tech regulations, an uptick in mobile adoption, and shifting customer demographics. This year in the US, JP Morgan launched mobile banking app Finn and Goldman Sachs’ retail banking arm Marcus crossed 1.5M Incumbents Play Catch-Up.

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KFC Is Selling A Colonel Sanders-Crowned Internet Escape Pod

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In an age when any attention is good attention, that’s Georgia Gold right there. The crossover of food and retail — particularly fashion — is becoming a more commonplace strategy. The food-meets-retail trend spans from the low-cost, quick-trend millennial apparel outposts to the jewel-encrusted bastions of high fashion.

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What Is Powering The Emerging Pawnaissance?

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As noted by a recent USA Today report, millennial college grads saddled with tens of thousands of dollars in student debt who get behind on payments rapidly find themselves first pushed into the deep subprime credit zone and short on funds in case of a major financial setback. Not that Smart Financial ever refers to itself as a pawn shop.

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The eCommerce Bachelor: Which City Will Get The Rose?

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Amazon, Georgia. Stonecrest, Georgia, has promised to rename itself “Amazon, Georgia” if the eCommerce giant elects to put down its second set of roots in their soil. No word on how Amazon feels about the city’s actual proposal. Technically, this town is not named Amazon … yet. Birmingham, Alabama.

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Why Nordstrom Brought Pop-Ups To SXSW

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Luxury Daily reports that the high-end retailer debuted its millennial-targeting pop-up — or Pod — at South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, from March 17–19, and plans to continue featuring it at similar events. Nordstrom is popping up at music festivals, in the form of a pod.

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11 New Restaurant Concepts Reimagining Fast Food & Casual Dining

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Instead, new millennial-inspired and tech-infused dining trends have been emerging across the US and internationally. Many of yesterday’s casual dining brands are dying, but not because millennials “don’t eat out.” In the past decade, restaurant and bar purchases have grown at twice the rate of general retail spending.

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We analyzed 7 of the fastest-growing personal finance apps of all time to figure out the secrets to their success — here’s what we learned

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Ninety-two million millennials will soon be in what Goldman Sachs calls their “prime spending years.” Bankrate found 83% of millennials don’t think they’ll ever retire: they simply “don’t think they’ll have the money” to do so.). In aggregate, they command $1.3 trillion in annual spending.

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