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Today In Digital-First Banking: Goldman's Marcus Debuts Personal Finance Tools; Franklin Templeton’s Singapore Subsidiary Collaborates With Razer Fintech

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Franklin Templeton Teams Up With Razer to Woo Millennial Investors. Tennessee-based regional financial services company First Horizon National Corp. The investment bank created its Marcus Insights platform by harnessing some of the knowledge from its $100 million acquisition of Clarity Money.

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Walden Mutual aims to serve New England’s food community

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It bothers Cummings that, according to a 2019 study by Cornerstone Advisors, 44% of millennials bank with one of the three biggest banks. He says millennials apply “pretty rigorous standards from a value perspective” to food, clothing, cosmetics and nearly every part of their spending—except for financial services. “Its

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What Serving The Internet’s ‘Underserved’ Means For Payments

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And some of those areas and cities — Chattanooga, Tennessee stands as a good example — are striving to become more attractive to millennials and others, with better internet a big part of such efforts.

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Sales Were Up, Foot Traffic Was Too — But Lowe’s Disappointed Investors

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housing market and the increasing transition of the millennial generation into home ownership mode. Lowe’s also plans to grow its supply chain by opening its first direct-to-consumer fulfillment center in Nashville, Tennessee. tax reform. percent.

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Retail Pulse: IKEA To Open ‘Planning Studio’ In NYC; Pizza Hut Will Acquire QuikOrder

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Yet the move comes as IKEA has curtailed its planned new stores, having canceled planned locations in North Carolina, Arizona and Tennessee amid a shift to eCommerce. CityLab , too, reported that the company’s market research found those who live in the Big Apple continue to like to shop in stores for furniture.

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Belle Cares’ Unusual Approach To Beauty On Demand

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Instead of the waves of millennials they had expected to see signing up for their service, what they found instead was that their customers were overwhelmingly older adults or the children of older adults booking services for their parents. These days, the only way to access Belle Cares would be as a Nashville or Tennessee resident.

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Ohio Lottery Makes A New Bet on Mobile

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In a handful of states, including Tennessee and South Carolina, lottery tickets may only be bought with cash.” Millennials, whom the company says do not provide a lot of foot traffic to retailers that sell lotto tickets. “In Connecticut, for example, you cannot buy tickets with a credit card. The target audience?

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