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Best New Financial Apps 2016, The List

Bank Innovation

Robinhood: On Target Launched in December 2014, Robinhood is a zero-fee stock trading app that quickly gained popularity among financially ambitious millennials. Robinhood was paid the enormous compliment of having “cracked the millennial code” by none other than Jay Sidhu, CEO of Customers Bank and founder of BankMobile.

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Baby Boomers vs. Millennials: Which Generation Has More Entrepreneurs?

PYMNTS

One of the biggest hurdles to starting a new business, in addition to developing an innovative out-of-the-box idea, can be where and how to obtain funding. census data, 2014 saw 452,853 new businesses, whereas each of the past forty years saw anywhere between 500K to 600K entrepreneurs move on their initiatives.

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Digital Banking Startup Loot Raises $2.9M Series A

Bank Innovation

Another digital banking startup has raised funding this week, this time to expand a current account offering aimed at students and millennials. Loot, a startup begun in 2014 by founder Ollie Purdue — who was finishing up school at the time of the company’s founding — has raised £2.2 million, or about $2.9 million, in […].

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For Macy’s and Men’s Wearhouse, No Millennial Tux and Tails Tailwind

PYMNTS

It’s been chronicled in these virtual pages that millennials are the driving force behind change – change in how payments are done, how banking is banked, how social media influences commerce (or doesn’t) and how shopping may become a hybrid of high touch across the digital and physical realms. Now that seems to be true even in fashion.

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Does Hipmunk’s Demise Signal Larger Changes In Travel?

PYMNTS

As the travel industry shifts into higher digital gear, and increasingly responds to the needs and desires of new consumer groups — millennials and Gen Z among them — some players are getting left behind and making their way into the history books. Back in 2014, Hipmunk said it had raised $20 million in Series C funding.

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How Connected Cars Are Changing The Game For QSRs

PYMNTS

Cars and quick-service restaurants (QSRs) have been interconnected since drive-ins were the latest innovation. Domino’s had already enabled in-car ordering with Ford’s Sync AppLink back in 2014. Mobile Ordering Appeals to Millennials. In fact, Pizza Hut’s claim to fame is that it sold its first online order way back in 1994.

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From Investing To Budgeting, How Millennials Are Disrupting Personal Finance

CB Insights

While the media often portrays millennials as preoccupied with the rising prices of festival tickets and avocado toast, their real financial concerns are a bit more practical. But millennials face significant headwinds in making those financial dreams a reality. get the REPORT on next generation investors. From big banks to big tech.