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CIBIL Study Shows Millennials Are Actively Checking Their Credit Scores

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While millennials are borrowing more than pre-millennials and post-millennials, they are still conscious about how much debt they are taking up…. Did you know that India’s millennials fall in the biggest borrowers’ category within the country? This is higher than the average score of non-millennials, which is 734.

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Millennial Women Are (Still) Held Back from Investing by Student Debt, SoFi Says

Bank Innovation

Millennial women have the funds available to start investing, but are held back by a fear of beginning the process, as well as the typical reason most millennials aren’t investing: debt, a study released yesterday by loan provider SoFi found.

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Retail Feels The Wide Impact Of Bridge Millennials

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Among the forces working to influence and change retail — and do so into the 2019 holiday shopping season, as well as the 2020s — is the rise of bridge millennials. Having had the time to establish their careers, they enjoy higher spending power than younger millennials, who are just now dipping their toes into the professional world.

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What Hath Bridge Millennials Wrought To Commerce And Payments?

PYMNTS

The new year will bring a new round of one of the hottest games in the payments-and-commerce world: What makes millennials tick? Census, millennials are 25 to 34 years old. The reason for that is because data shows a significant difference in payments and commerce between this segment and the Census view of millennials.

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The Instant Payments Divide: How Lenders Can Use Disbursements To Create Lasting Trust

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The lending industry was hit hard during the pandemic’s early months, with many banks and traditional lenders rapidly adjusting their standards and rates to accommodate businesses’ and consumers’ shifting needs. Instant Payments and the Millennial Push.

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Biz2Credit Tells Banks To Stop Fixating On Millennials

PYMNTS

Since banks typically want to see at least three years of financal data when making funding decisions, our study confirms that established businesses with higher annual revenues are more likely to be approved for loans than newer companies owned by younger applicants.”. The media focus on Millennials as if there is no other growth group.

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Focus: New-To-Credit Millennials, Credit-Rating Systems & Borrowing Credit

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Owing much to the changes in banking trends and the emergence of fintech companies, millennials across India have become open to the idea of borrowing credit. As millennials, we grew up in a system that regarded such credit products as ‘financial stressors’ and those opting for them were often looked upon as financially-screwed individuals.