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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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Can a Mobile Lending App Save Millennial Credit Ratings?

Bank Innovation

Millennials hate credit — but a new service called Lenny is out to change that. Lenny is meant for mobile (of course) and launched today in California. It will reach Texas, Florida and New York in the next 10 to 12 months, according to the company, which claims that, in less than three Read More.

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Millennials Hold the Key to Loan Growth

Jack Henry

Confession: I’m not that much older than millennials. We love our technology, but we’re a bit skeptical when it comes to things like online privacy, machine learning, AI, and the latest “it” social app. I like to think of myself as a “young” Gen Xer. After all, we agree on a lot of the same things.

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Lenny Includes Personal Finance Services in Lending App

Bank Innovation

Two months in, Lenny – millennial-focused mobile lending app – is ready to hit the market with new budgeting and billpay products. Launched mid-March, Lenny’s goal is to help millennials build credit scores while still in school, with loans up to $10,000 and 0% interest (if paid on time). So far, Read More.

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Toyota Plans To Turn Millennials Into Car Owners

PYMNTS

That bet could complicate, in a positive way, some of the general ideas out there about the preferences of millennial consumers. The integration of such tools is designed with those millennials in mind, part of the company’s effort to gain more revenue from a new generation of drivers. Not So Much About Tech As Marketing.

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

PYMNTS

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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How Small FIs’ SMB Lending Journeys Nudge The US Toward Open Banking

PYMNTS

As Mark Rockefeller, co-founder and chief executive officer of small business lending-as-a-service provider StreetShares , told PYMNTS in a recent interview, that pressure to digitize expands to credit unions and community banks in their SMB lending offerings, too, and do it profitably. “This is an extraordinary thing. .

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