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Today In Payments: MineralTree Raises $50M, Buys Two Companies; Robinhood Raises $460M

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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. Robinhood Raises $460M One Month After Raising $200M. has grown the size of its newest investment round to $660 million.

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Why Community Banks Can’t Afford To ‘Wait and See’ About Faster Payment Innovations

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In late July, the Federal Reserve Faster Payments Task Force released its much-anticipated report on how to strengthen and operate the U.S. Many players in the financial services market were already launching innovative solutions without knowing which guidelines the Fed would recommend for the U.S. faster payments system.

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Can Politicians Give The Global Sharing Economy A Boost?

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The bill requires “the Economic Development and Commerce Department (DDEC by its Spanish acronym) to establish the standards and guidelines” for the sharing economy. is down this year compared to 2017, particularly with millennials, and that baby boomers are now the new drivers of the movement.” Sharing Backlash.

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Debt Collections on Tenterhooks with Six and Sevens following CFPB’s Reg F

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Some say these new contact guidelines from Regulation F put customers in the driver’s seat. Statista research states that Millennials were the largest generation group in the U.S. Morgan Stanley research states that millennials are the largest driver of net new loan demand. But the reality is that they have never left that seat.

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Prepaid’s Summer Of Uncertainty

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Fauss said that critique has been true in the past – but not as much now since market factors have driven prices down. And for some consumers, especially millennials, that’s just not their choice.” Who Uses Prepaid Anyway?

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Why Target Is Letting Kids Design Their Clothes

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Cat & Jack is Target’s newest vision — a line of baby and kids clothes, approved by kids, featuring funky colors and cooler cuts — and it is a big move on the rapidly growing market for kids clothes among newly reproducing millennials. And of course, a big risk. The kids’ business wasn’t broken. It was strong.”.

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Environmental Solutions Using Analytics

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We are committed to increasingly improving the management of social and environmental factors in our businesses and in supporting the market in the same direction, helping our customers in the transition to a less carbon-intensive economy and more resilient to the climate change impacts.”. Every financial firm will need to change.