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Weddings, The Millennial Way? There’s A Marketplace For That

PYMNTS

Courtesy of the relationship and romance experts at PYMNTS, here is one of the few obvious statements that still manages to convey deep and eternal wisdom: Weddings are not for the fainthearted. All this new revenue is going from the cities where most millennials live to the countryside,” he said. An Idea is Born.

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Why Visa Is Starting A Conversation About Millennial Females and Money

PYMNTS

In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, women weren’t even legally allowed to own high-heel shoes for fear they would ensnare unwitting men into marriage on false pretenses. Millennial women are evolving into very [a] different relationship with money,” said Reilly. Though the progress has been slow, it has also been steady.

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8 Connected-Economy Firms Expected To Light Up The IPO Market In 2021

PYMNTS

Robinhood offers an easy-to-use app to trade stocks commission-free, making the company popular with millennials. Securities and Exchange Commission allegations that it failed for several years to disclose so-called “payments for order flow.” Robinhood denied the charges, but recently agreed to pay $65 million to settle U.S.

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Retail Bedfellows Roundup: Staples Shares Space, Affirm Finances Life Experiences

PYMNTS

Sure, one could sit back in an armchair and chalk it all up to irascible millennials, but Staples is taking the proactive approach and making sure it can provide the right office supplies, however — and wherever — its consumers want them. ” What a breach of etiquette to call out the retail security industry — however necessary it is.

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Fintech Fundings: 28 Companies Raise $330 Million Week Ending Jan 15

Fintech Labs Insights

Four Finovate alums made up 40% of the weekly total: Taulia raised $46 million for its financial supply-chain management system. Financial supply chain management. Derivative risk management. Blockchain technology for securities. Millennial saving & investing app. RealtyMogul took in another $18.4 FinanceFox.

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The Dawn of Banking Voice Technology

PYMNTS

In partnership with Nuance Communications, the same Massachusetts-based company behind the voice of Siri, the bank is piloting the technology in order to initially promote voice-activated functionality around spending tracking. The bank opted to pilot the technology in its student app, he said, because millennials are known early adopters.

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24 Industries Other Than Auto That Driverless Cars Could Turn Upside Down

CB Insights

Instead, telematics technology — the use of telecommunications to facilitate communication and gather data from vehicles — will allow taxi and trucking companies to manage their self-driving fleets so that they provide services and run their routes with optimal efficiency. Humans will still be needed to manage these systems.