Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

At IBM Think 2019, Henrique Albuquerque from Bradesco Research and Innovation offered insight into how Bradesco is transforming by focusing their entire business structure around the customer journey. If it doesn’t, negative news travels fast through millennial networks. Social-based marketing. Hyper-connected journey.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2018

Driven by younger customers, such as millennials and teens, casual luxury is bolstering sales of luxury apparel, handbags and footwear. The really-growing brands now beating the market are the ones already hooking these teenagers,” Bain Partner Claudia D’Arpizio told CNBC.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

The Market and Millennials. Eleven James serves a couple of markets, such as consumers who’re ready to buy a watch but want to see how it looks and feels first. Eleven James may also appeal to millennials, who don’t have that ownership mentality. Millennials currently make up about a third of the U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2020

All that is starting to change, especially as more consumers turn to social media to seek support from their insurers, or even air their grievances. “So, v has yet to build out support for more innovative mobile disbursement methods, but it does have the technical capacity to do so. v , said in a recent interview with PYMNTS.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

One way that banks or ambitious social media platforms will win this combat for customers is through the use of mobile credit and debit cards, with a highly configurable nature and full range of card and spend management controls to please the most vacillating of customers.

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PYMNTS

MAY 26, 2017

Fortunately, it appears the recreational market is getting some much-needed innovation to help organizations and associations process payments and participant registration. One company that is innovating in the sports and recreation industry is Amilia, an online registration and membership management platform. In the U.S.,

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Accenture

APRIL 26, 2017

Given that this trend is coinciding in with an ongoing shift by younger consumers towards more innovative channels—the likes of wearables, social media and instant messaging—it’s possible that the continued strong usage of branches is a transitory effect. But our study gives no indication of that. Stay tuned. [1-5]

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Accenture

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The drive towards open banking gives them a direct line into a potentially lucrative market. And, crucially, it’s a market where they’re well placed to deliver the flexible, personalized experiences consumers demand. Trust in online platforms and social-media companies as providers of payments services is low. So why not?

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 30, 2019

s robust marketing strategy for its retail bank has paid off, as the bank today reported that half of its new retail customers were millennials. Of Ally Financial’s 230,000 new retail deposit customers via its retail side, Ally Bank, 126,500 were millennials, according to bank’s earnings report released today.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

But, as the just-released PYMNTS “ Commerce Connected Playbook: Retail Innovation Edition ” indicates, the interesting thing to watch is not that digitization is happening, but how it is happening. They see things on social media, they have been reached through direct marketing, email marketing, text marketing, etcetera about a product.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Millennials are also more likely to go the do-it-yourself (DIY) route than consumers from other age groups. Almost three quarters — or 73 percent — of millennials are doing DIY home improvement. The typical customer ranges in demographics, but the company’s market is typically consumers between 25 and 35 years old.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2017

This stems from emerging markets like China, Russia and the United Arab Emirates starting to move into the luxury purchasing arena, with 70 percent of consumers increasing their spending. Within these emerging markets, we’ve seen retailers make large bets on luxury.

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Abrigo

MAY 5, 2022

or largely focused on the domestic banking market. In many cases, the podcasts or hosts have sizable social media followings, and all release a new episode at least once per month so you can stay up to date with the latest trends in the finance world. We have webinars , whitepapers , and other resources to make your job easier.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2016

” Retailers have come to recognize the incredible marketing opportunity presented by the multi-weekend music festival in Southern California. Todd Smith, president and CMO at Sonic, told MarketWatch that this campaign comes from the company’s long experience with the millennial demographic.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Thanks to a large unbanked population and growing importance of the millennial customer, the digital-first bank business model is spreading not just in developed economies but also emerging markets like those in Asia.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 1, 2016

Robinhood: On Target Launched in December 2014, Robinhood is a zero-fee stock trading app that quickly gained popularity among financially ambitious millennials. Robinhood was paid the enormous compliment of having “cracked the millennial code” by none other than Jay Sidhu, CEO of Customers Bank and founder of BankMobile.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The move comes amid growth in the larger maternity market, however, with sales of that apparel expected to reach $7.7 Growing number of working pregnant women and increasing demand from developing regions are the basic factors that will boost the maternity apparel market,” that report said. billion in 2013, representing a 2.10

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Retailers from H&M to Zara are also getting onboard with VR and AR, as the market is poised to grow to be worth billions with consumers willing to exploring virtual worlds through their devices. Releasing AR headsets would put the social media giant in direct competition with AR startups like Magic Leap and Thalmic Labs.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

College-educated shoppers also outpace those with only high-school degrees or less, while bridge millennials, millennials and Generation Zers expressed greater interest than Gen-X and Baby Boomers did. The pandemic has actually been great for business, with demand soaring 400 percent and Misfits Market adding 400 employees.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 6, 2016

Two months in, Lenny – millennial-focused mobile lending app – is ready to hit the market with new budgeting and billpay products. Launched mid-March, Lenny’s goal is to help millennials build credit scores while still in school, with loans up to $10,000 and 0% interest (if paid on time). So far, Read More.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

A lifestyle brand for millennial buyers with an eye for design – but perhaps not the pocketbook for designer prices – the watch and accessories startup MVMT started on its path in 2013. million followers across social media channels, it seems fair to assume there are more people who would like to join.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Though the vast majority of fine jewelry on Earth is designed to be worn by women, as a product it is often marketed to men. Three-quarters of the shoppers on the site are women buying for themselves, and about three-quarters of those women are millennials who passed the brand name around social media early in the firm’s evolution.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Like most innovators, Arielle Charnas was looking to solve a problem when she launched her fashion blog – it just wasn’t a fashion problem. Today, throwing digital marketing dollars at influencers seems like such a common and obvious move for a brand trying to tap into millennial consumers that it’s barely a news event at this point.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Three ways millennials could accelerate FinTech trends in 2016. When it comes to finance, millennials are a generation known to be conservative in spending and distrustful of financial institutions. Thus, it’s not shocking that millennials are a driving factor in the growing financial technology, or FinTech, movement.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

One of the takeaways from the Platform Economy Playbook is that amidst tech innovations like artificial intelligence (AI) to help personalize clothing selection and speed up delivery and social media-powered commerce, customer service has become a differentiator. Digital platforms have also given the resale market a boost.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Beyond its website, the company’s products are in brick-and-mortar retailers such as Whole Foods and Gelson’s Market, among others. The Market. When it comes to the market for ReGrained, the company is targeting “people with active, healthy lifestyles,” Kurzrock said. per the company’s website.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Groupe BPCE, France’s second largest bank (by customers), has utilized the API of the global social media giant Twitter to allow their customers to transfer money via a tweet. This is certainly an interesting innovation, but many bankers may be asking themselves if it’s a practical one.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2017

While Engagement Labs’ research showed the two groups most influenced by social media include millennials (57 percent) and Generation Z (80 percent), the lack of engagement for teens online may be raising some red flags for the retail industry. As it appears to be, catering to teen shoppers is a rough task for most retailers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

In addition, the firm said that it is launching the second phase of its advertising campaign known as “Money is Changing,” and where the campaign will train a spotlight on millennial women, with focus on steps they have taken to tackle and overcome money-related challenges. For example, Simon said, the Jan.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2017

While Engagement Labs’ research showed the two groups most influenced by social media include millennials (57 percent) and Generation Z (80 percent), the lack of engagement for teens online may be raising some red flags for the retail industry. As it appears to be, catering to teen shoppers is a rough task for most retailers.

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Banking 2020

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Luvleen Sidhu, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at BankMobile , spoke with us recently to discuss how BankMobile is connecting with a younger audience, specifically college students, to educate and empower millennials. Millennials unfortunately have a -2% savings rate, meaning they spend more than they save.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2016

It’s taking its Premium McWraps, the signature “healthy” item designed to keep foodie millennials from abandoning it, and 86ing it from the menu.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Turnarounds in tech — and in social media in particular — are not unheard of, Nathanson wrote, meaning it is not impossible for Snap to snap back from all this. This is one of a host of recent troubles Snapchat has faced since going public, troubles that are increasingly noticeable and worrisome to market watchers.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

QVC President and CEO Mike George said when the deal was announced,“By creating the leader in discovery-based shopping, we will enhance the customer experience, accelerate innovation, leverage our resources and talents to further strengthen our brands, and redeploy savings for innovation and growth.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2020

On a broader scale, parents are concerned about how much time kids are spending in front of screens, whether that’s video games, phones or social media. Onderdonk pointed out that many millennials and younger adults see the crates as cool things to build.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The latest Payments and the Platform Economy study examines how marketplaces are responding to the counterfeit threat as well as how they are continuing to innovate the customer experience. Millennials and Gen Z are driving the growth of the secondhand market and eCommerce, generally. Social Media. In the U.S.

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Insights on Business

JANUARY 31, 2019

On a recent visit to my local coffee shop, I realized how uphill a task this can be with millennials and Generation Z patrons who are joining the ranks of coffee aficionados. The teens scoffed at the manager’s dictation of how they’re supposed to behave, and amusingly grew annoyed for being deprived of some social media mobile device time.

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