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Homesharing Platforms Vie For Millennial, Gen Z Travelers

PYMNTS

They want convenient booking tools, fast payment methods and secure reservations when planning their trips, and these needs have not changed much as millennials have come of age. Millennials and younger generations are digitally minded and want to interact with brands that can answer their personal requests through online and mobile channels.

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

PYMNTS

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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Mobile Cards Key To Winning Bank Accounts

PYMNTS

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. Follow the Smart(phone) Crowd.

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Mobile Banking and Millennials – Will the Love Last?

PYMNTS

A lot of fuss is made over millennials and their proclivities toward things being easy. So, when it comes to something like digital banking , it’s not so much about finding what’s easy as it is about finding what service best meets millennials’ needs. Millennials to big banks: No thanks ….

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Innovation Trix You Can Learn From Breakfast Children’s Cereal

PYMNTS

For all the plaudits disruptive innovation gets, it is easy to overlook how hard it is to achieve. While it’s an exaggeration to say there is nothing new under the sun, it’s actually not that big of an exaggeration in the innovations realm. But, sometimes, the innovation just really whiffs. The iPhone 8 springs to mind.

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Why bank branches—and human contact—are not going away any time soon

Accenture

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. So, what does the research tell us?

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The open banking opportunity

Accenture

We know almost US$1 billion was invested in PSD2-enabled services in 2016, up 200 percent from the year before¹. Based on this survey of over 2,000 consumers, it’s clear that online retailers, tech firms and social-media players face an uphill battle to convince consumers to allow them access to their financial data. So why not?