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Deep Dive: Travel, Hospitality Get A Millennial Makeover

PYMNTS

Millennials have long been sought-after travel and hospitality customers, partly because they are perfectly placed to seek such experiences. This unique status creates both opportunities and challenges for firms in the space, as millennials search for the experiences they crave. Furthermore, millennials are set to spend $1.4

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How Millennials Shop For Furniture With Direct-To-Consumer Brands

PYMNTS

Millennials value experiences over things, as the familiar digital age adage goes, but sometimes millennials do, in fact, need actual things , such as sofas, beds and tables to furnish their apartments and houses. For starters, these retailers are turning to simple web interfaces that present information in a clear way.

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Trending: Meeting The Millennial Need For AI-Powered Visual Shopping

PYMNTS

In the August edition of the Payments And The Platform Economy Playbook , PYMNTS examines how marketplaces are using technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and mobile payments to innovate the customer experience. Fraud remains an ever-present challenge, however, and marketplaces worldwide are deploying new defenses.

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Not Even Millennials Care About Mobile Payments, Studies Show

Bank Innovation

Turns out even millennials don’t care that much about mobile payments. According to a report presented by the tech consultancy Accenture at Money20/20, the number of those of us in North America who use our mobile phones to pay at the point of sale hasn’t changed in the slightest since last year, Read More.

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Are There Digital Strategy Lessons Financial Institutions Can Learn From Other Industries?

Perficient

I presented on this topic, along with my colleague Scott Albahary – Chief Strategist for Financial Services here at Perficient and Jim Marous – Co-Publisher of The Financial Brand , to approximately 500 financial services industry folks. The approach we took, and you’ll see in the presentation, are real-world examples of digital trends.

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DATA: How FI’s Innovation Gap Is Big Tech’s Big Opportunity

PYMNTS

It’s really difficult, the banking ecosystem is not fast and that’s just reality,” Jim McCarthy, industry expert and former innovation head for Visa, told Karen Webster in a recent conversation. The Headwinds Creating The Innovations Gap . According to the latest edition of the Innovation Readiness report, only 22.3

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Digital Banking Innovation and Millennial Entrepreneurship

NCR

Today, millennials are the largest generation in the United States – and their levels of entrepreneurship are unprecedented. Millennials are starting more businesses than previous generations, and they’re starting them at a younger age than their predecessors. This year alone, the Internet of Things will connect 8.4