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What Is Powering The Emerging Pawnaissance?

PYMNTS

Policymakers may have simply shifted operating firms from one industry to another, having no real effect on market conduct,” Ramirez writes. As of this week, the firm announced it would be adding to its store count with the acquisition of 11 Illinois stores, one Iowa store and seven Texas stores.

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Lenny Loves Dwolla: Digital Payment Network Helps Bring Microloans to Millennials

Fintech Labs Insights

What happens when a millennial microlending app teams up with the white-label API of a digital payment network? In October, Dwolla inked a deal with the CME Group , bringing on demand payment capability to the exchange’s clearing and settlement operations. demonstrating FiSync at FinovateSpring 2015.

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Social Money Teams Up with Sallie Mae to Provide Goal-Based Savings Accounts

Fintech Labs Insights

Having established itself as a goal-saving solution for millennials with its SmartyPig solution, Social Money is now gearing up for the next generation with its new partnership with educational lender , Sallie Mae. Upromise also provides a MasterCard credit card with a cash back for college plan, and a high-yielding savings account.

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Hy-Vee Kicks Into Hy-Gear With Wahlburgers, OrangeTheory Partnerships

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That’s the strategy Hy-Vee is investing in, and the latest move along the trajectory has been a partnership between the Iowa-based supermarket chain and two unlikely comrades: OrangeTheory Fitness and Wahlburgers restaurants. Could the secret to winning the grocery wars lie not in groceries, but in adjacent brands and services?

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A Step Ahead

Independent Banker

If you’re an online bank or are simply looking for younger, more millennial-type customers, Twitter and Instagram are strong platforms to use. a payments network in Johnson, Iowa. For starters, you need to understand the networks you’re posting on,” she says. “If Patrick Dix is vice president of public relations for SHAZAM Inc.,