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OCTOBER 4, 2020

a special purpose acquisition company or SPAC , with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The trend has grown in recent months. Hims , a direct-to-consumer company selling health products targeted at millennials, is using a SPAC to go public , for example. Emil Michael filed an S-1 prospectus on Friday (Oct.

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APRIL 11, 2019

Securing alcohol is one of the grand adventures of life, especially if a person is younger than the legal age to buy. First, he wants people to know what the growth of online alcohol sales really means, so no one carries around misconceptions. Delivery and Booze Trends. reached $1.7

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2019

The point is that when it comes to wedding planning — especially those put together by millennials, who are finally coming into their own as important consumers — there is always a better way to go about things. It’s not like we created the trend,” he said.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

It’s time to shift gears when it comes to a commonly held perception about millennials and vehicle ownership. After years of believing millennials were disavowing the practice, recent studies indicate the millennial generation is kicking the tires on the concept of owning or leasing their own set of wheels after all.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2016

Lendified , which offers loans to small Canadian businesses online, said earlier this month that it has secured a $20 million credit facility through Liquid Capital. So it is with the extension of credit to smaller firms who need the funds to gain top-line traction.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2018

In online banking, 40 percent abandonment is … intolerable. As many as four in 10 consumers have at some point in their journey into online banking found the process frustrating enough to give up, as estimated by Signicat. In life, 40 percent of anything is a lot. And the frustration level has grown.

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MAY 23, 2019

Millennials, Bridge Millennials and the rapidly up-and-coming Gen Z consumers mostly prefer digital banking as their go-to when they interact. You can be compliant, and check all the boxes on security and conforming with regulations, and still get someone started in digital banking in less than a minute,” he said.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Between the Instagram selfies, Twitter hashtags and Facebook posts, millennials seem to overshare. The more information that’s asked of them, the less likely it is that [millennials] will finish the application,” said Johnny Ayers, cofounder of Socure. “The It’s All About The Use Case . And they need customer data — at least some.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

B2C trends are bleeding into the B2B space and forcing corporate sellers to become digitally savvy — and fast. The trend is unlikely to abate as younger generations gain greater influence in corporate buying. The Sizable Online Fraud Threat. Vendors do not always find the transition to online selling to be easy.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2019

With more consumers than ever turning to mobile apps for their QSR orders, the competition among online ordering platforms is increasingly fierce. For more on what’s going on in the mobile order-ahead (MOA) world, visit the Tracker’s News & Trends section. Around the Mobile Order-Ahead World. 01 for a short period of time.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Consumers are beginning to express more preferences regarding their buying and selling experiences on online marketplaces, which are seeing an increased amount of competition in the market as they attempt to hold onto their customer bases. To learn more about these and other stories, visit the Playbook’s News & Trends section.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2019

It’s a world that has sprung up around the spending power and tastes of millennials and Gen Zers, and it’s getting hard to keep track of all the available options. Enter the platforms, complete with algorithms and tools to discover and price-compare any experience or item that can be booked or rented online. Where’s the Trust?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2020

Competition for customers — especially millennials — from larger banks and FIs has long required credit unions to keep pace with their more innovative counterparts. Security is an ongoing concern as well, with countless fraudsters set on hacking CUs to obtain customers’ data. Attracting Customers With Unique Brand, Financial Stability.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Grocers are stepping up their digital game, and the trends in play now promise to become even larger in the new year. Consumers rely on the reviews of other customers, a dependence that has only grown deeper in the age of online shopping and travel. Millennials Make Big Push For B2B Personalization.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2021

Even consumers who are feeling more financially secure may want to tap new tools to help them maintain their good financial standings and stay in control of their budgets. This financing option could appeal to even financially secure consumers who wish to avoid credit card interest rates. and unemployment became more widespread.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2019

With more consumers than ever turning to mobile apps for their QSR orders, the competition among online ordering platforms is increasingly fierce. For more on what’s going on in the mobile order-ahead (MOA) world, visit the Tracker’s News & Trends section. Around the Mobile Order-Ahead World. 01 for a short period of time.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Ever since, people have been in search of the bellwether, the leader in a category that signals a powerful trend and paves the path for others to follow. Retailers scour social media to find influencers and designer bellwethers to turn trends into sales. Pundits identify bellwether states to predict election outcomes.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

But as a new webinar from PYMNTS showed, retail success is not exactly some mysterious process; it simply requires close attention to changing consumer trends and new technologies, including those centered around payments. You can expect such trends to deepen, intensify and evolve in the coming years. Trust Issues.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

In the latest Digital Fraud Tracker, PYMNTS highlights the fraud trends and patterns that regulators are closely monitoring, as well as the solutions — including artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) — that are being deployed to shift the anti-fraud effort from def ense to offense. Federal regulators in the U.S.,

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MAY 30, 2016

And to make sure that everyone starts off 2016, Part II on the same footing, we thought we would bring you a few of the top trending stories, as well as hot data/research topics, that will give you a head start on that all-important planning for 2016 and beyond. Online Checkout Conversion. Online Fraud Attack Rates Soar Since October.

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AUGUST 13, 2019

Those merchants often viewed consumers walking aisles with mobile phones as a threat because those consumers were often checking the prices of products on Amazon , using the physical store to see in person what they would eventually buy from that online competitor. Mobile Trends. Security Concerns. More specifically, 48.6

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NOVEMBER 28, 2016

TransUnion Vice President Heather Battison recently joined PYMNTS to discuss how consumers are overcoming their cybersecurity fears to hunt down bargains online. For many consumers, it looks as though the convenience of online shopping can offset the security risks that may come with of online shopping.

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AUGUST 23, 2019

Dutch payments processor Adyen showed significant double digit, first half gains, driven by online commerce and global business from mid market firms. Trending: Meeting The Millennial Need For AI-Powered Visual Shopping. SWIFT: Real-Time Payments Demands Real-Time Security And Compliance.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The reCommerce trend continues to gain momentum. Demand for refurbished products has surged, and by securing exclusive rights to inventory sold directly from the most popular manufacturers, eBay is changing the way people shop this category," said Jordan Sweetnam , senior vice president and general manager for eBay's North America market.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

He noted that ordering grocery items online and having them delivered is a practice quickly gaining traction. Regardless of whether payments are B2B or C2B, he said the trend has been clear: “You want to be able to choose between which payment instruments you are going to be using at the time of your choosing.

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JUNE 21, 2016

According to a recent study , all four of the leading banks are among the ten least-loved brands by Gen Y, and one in three millennials revealed they’re open to switching financial institutions in the next 90 days. Millennials don’t like traditional banks and don’t see any stark differences between them. The Rise of the Digital Bank.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Give a deep and welcoming hello to the newest form of window shopping — a consumer behavior that will help to shape retail in 2019 and beyond, and a trend that stands as an increasing part of shopping, one that promises to impact brick-and-mortar merchants as they decide how to innovate. That trend is certainly nothing new.

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AUGUST 16, 2018

bills paid online. trillion in 2017, and that could nearly double by 2021 — online billing platforms are rushing to incorporate payment processing capabilities into their offerings. Younger consumers are leading the way when it comes to online bill payments, with 61 percent of those payments coming from millennials.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2017

From their affinity for brunch (and avocados on toast ) to their attachment (uncorded, of course) for subscription services , it’s no secret millennials have some significant spending differences compared with older generations. Focusing on mobile millennials. Making faster payments more secure. That can be a tremendous help.

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APRIL 30, 2020

The new surge in demand is putting financial institutions’ (FIs’) online and mobile offerings to the test and allowing FIs to show off their digital investments and know-how to assure customers that they are in good hands. These online and mobile experiences must be convenient, seamless and secure, or consumers are likely to abandon them.

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JANUARY 18, 2017

While there may be a trending idea that it’s successful, turns out, many times certain generations — namely millennials — are more reluctant to give away their data, than one might think. Millennials expect technology to intelligently know who they are, with any investigative work done on the back end.

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JANUARY 21, 2021

The pandemic has driven consumers to make the bulk of their purchases online, leading many businesses and retailers to struggle with securing their digital infrastructures and payments processes while managing floods of orders. retailers have digital oversights that leave them vulnerable to attacks.

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FICO

JUNE 9, 2016

Millennials, now the largest demographic group in America, are possibly the most misunderstood, elusive market ever, a notion underscored by The Wall Street Journal ’s article about the existence of $20,000-per-hour “Millennial consultants.” Millennials reward positive fraud outcomes. In Millennial parlance, that’s “harsh.”.

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JUNE 26, 2020

More than 10,000 financial institutions (FIs) around the world are implementing or exploring open banking , an emerging trend in the financial industry that allows banks and FinTechs to freely share their data, encouraging collaboration and the development of new customer-facing services. Open Banking Prevents Data Exposure. In the U.K.,

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JULY 25, 2019

Fintech is often associated with digital tools targeted at tech-savvy millennials. GET THE 81-PAGE q1 2019 FINTECH TRENDS REPORT. Online wealth management tools are also becoming more common, such as True Link Financial ’s investment and trust administration tools. Cake is another online estate planning tool.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Open banking, bank APIs and data sharing flourished in 2018, with small business and corporate financial services squarely in the path of this financial services trend as banks and FinTechs consider new ways to enhance business payments, accounting, treasury and financial management. Yet the trend isn’t without its complications.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2020

As much as a click from the Kardashians helped spread the brand awareness and jump-start his company, Molnar said, as a spending trend among young consumers set the stage for BNPL's success. All of these changes we're seeing are the result of a few mega-trends," Moinian said. The other is technological innovation.

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