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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 Did You Expect? Delivering Experiences that Meet Customer Expectations (Part 1 of 3)

Perficient

And that was back in 2014. Millennials — digital natives with arguably the greatest generational spending power — “have the lowest opinion of most industries’ digital services,” according to the same report. Since then, our “voracious appetite” has pried opened a massive gap between expectation and reality.

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Walmart+ And Amazon Prime Face Off As Consumers Decide Who Gets Their Business

PYMNTS

consumer seems happy to test the waters — and none more so than the coveted bridge millennials. According to PYMNTS survey data, nearly three times as many bridge millennials are Amazon Prime members as Walmart+ members. But three in 10 bridge millennials already report having both, just a month in. Those are the 47 million U.S.

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You May Kiss The Bride — After You Shop Online

PYMNTS

That arguably describes the recent acquisition of Seattle-based Blueprint Registry , an online universal gift registry, by David’s Bridal , the privately held wedding retail chain that traces its roots back to the first years after World War II. Online Advantages. When in doubt, bet on digital. The Amazon pitch?

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Afterpay CEO: How ‘Contact Us’ And The Kardashians Ignited Afterpay In The US

PYMNTS

The company had come a long way from its launch in 2014, when it had about 10 retailers signed on to offer Afterpay as a payment option during checkout. Millennials were still a pretty small percentage of retail spend in 2015,” Molnar said. The firm has not fundamentally altered the product since its 2014 launch, Molnar pointed out.

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Uber Co-Founder Kalanick Supports Expansion Of 3D-printed Hotel

PYMNTS

An idea hatched at the Burning Man desert arts festival, the experience-focused hospitality group Habitas was founded in 2014 by Oliver Ripley, Kfir Levy and Eduardo Castillo. . The startup raised $20 million to take its “3D-printed hotel” idea to new markets in Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

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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.