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Millennials Are the Future for Community Banks

Finer Points

The nation’s millennials—the biggest and most diverse generation of customers in our nation’s history—account for more than $1 trillion in annual purchasing power. And according to ICBA’s recently released 2014 American Millennials and Banking Study, this generation represents a major opportunity for community banks.

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

PYMNTS

The millennial generation is often viewed as the entitled group of youngsters that believe everyone should get a participation trophy, while baby boomers are typically seen as more of a “pull yourself up by your own bootstraps” kind of generation. What makes this even worse is that millennial unemployment is an astounding 11.5

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Number Of Millennial Households Expected To Soar Over Next 10 Years

PYMNTS

A lot of millennials are still living at home with their parents, but as more and more of them begin moving out in the coming years, they could have a significant impact on both the housing and rental markets. So what will fuel this significant growth in new millennial households? million households in 2014, while 11.4

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Are Millennials Really Over Revolving Credit?

PYMNTS

That fundamental difference in what counts as a best-case scenario has caused millennials to turn away from revolving credit products, Afterpay Co-founder and CEO Anthony Eisen told PYMNTS in a recent conversation. If they happen to forget their bill for a day or two, and end up paying a late fee, all the better.

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How Many Dedicated Content Channels Do Millennials Need?

PYMNTS

It took traditional media outlets a few extra years to figure out that millennials don’t quite care for getting their news and entertainment from the same places their parents did, but now that the cat’s out of the bag on these consumers’ on-the-go smartphone habits , brands everywhere are scrambling for a piece of the mobile pie.

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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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What If Millennials Aren’t Quite As Different As Advertised

PYMNTS

Millennials are different — a point hammered homed in a million ways, in a million think pieces written since the generation that started to be born in 1980 started to come of age about 10 years ago. Why are millennials different? As recently as 2014, the Nielsen data was pretty clear — the millennial American dream was a 2.0