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Amazon Pay’s Gauthier: No One Can Predict Retail’s Future, So Innovate Around What Won’t Change

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Nearly 70 percent (68 percent) of millennial and bridge millennial consumers and 63 percent of Gen X consumers say reviews, recommendations and familiar checkout options give them confidence that a new-to-them merchant is worth getting their business. “The We use the same tools, and we also export the guarantees.”.

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What You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know About Millennials

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Millennials as a generation are probably the most speculated and talked-about generation in human history. More seriously, millennials are increasingly viewed as a generation a bit in peril. Millennials Bowl. As it turns out, millennials love sriracha, yoga pants, Netflix, chilling, Snapchat and bowling. There are 75.4

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Main Street?s Digital Shift, ATM Innovation, PPP Loans Top This Week?s News

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We have deep dives on Main Street’s digital shift, ATM innovation and PPP loans. The pandemic has sped up the digital roadmap for everyone in financial services, providing for more innovation in the last few months than had been seen during several years. Innovating The ATM Beyond Cash. The Flaw In Demonizing Big Tech.

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The Senior Factor In Smart Home Innovation

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Millennial early adopters may get the majority of the attention when it comes to the development of smart home technology, but if one is looking at the demographic where it could very well ignite in the next decade, it could very easily be older consumers.

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Sensory's VoiceHub Debuts On Audio Weaver For Hands-Free Command Coding

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Wake words refer to specific words or phrases used to activate modern vocal-centric devices like Amazon's Alexa. We are excited to share these tools and capabilities with the speech tech community and beyond and believe VoiceHub will serve as a catalyst for rapidly accelerated innovation of new voice-enabled experiences.”.

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In Financial Services, Innovation Versus Inertia

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In an interview with PYMNTs after a webinar by the pair titled, “Financial Services Innovation — The Risk of New vs. Nothing,” John Epperson, principal at Crowe Horwath LLP, and Jason Henrichs, managing director at FinTech Forge , discussed the challenges and rewards of embracing change, even as firms are mindful of what works.

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Longevity Lessons From The Oldest US Credit Union

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A 1925 amendment to the organization’s charter allowed the financial institution (FI) to be referred to as either “La Caisse Populaire, Ste-Marie” – translation, “The People’s Bank” – or “St. From Mill Workers to Millennials. CUs that are invested in millennial expectations will have an edge over their community competition, he said.