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DECEMBER 24, 2019

However, after almost 50 years, it began to fade in the 1980s, disrupted by the emergence of store-branded credit cards. Yet, instead of offering the option to pay now and buy later, the credit cards reversed the order of operation and allowed customers to buy now and pay later over time. In 2017, price discounts were about 19 percent.

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OCTOBER 30, 2017

As millennials continue to grow their presence in the small business (SMB) community, the dynamics of SMB finance are also changing. According to some experts , millennial small business owners no longer accept mediocre or sub-par services from their financial providers.

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MAY 20, 2017

Are millennials eating too many avocados on toast for their own good? The crux of the debate is this: are first- time home sales down because, given the choice of a two car garage and a yard in the suburbs, millennials have, en masse, decided they’d rather enjoy a more richly-delicious brunch experience, week in and week out?

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MARCH 1, 2018

According to recent PYMNTS research, in Q4 2017, only 51 percent of gig workers were paid within one week of rendering their services. That’s down from 63 percent in Q3 2017, indicating that more gig workers’ wages are being delayed even further. Can a cash back program help millennials avoid the debt trap? About the Tracker.

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JANUARY 2, 2019

The vast majority of consumers are still feeling confident about their financial situation, and younger consumers in the bridge millennial demographic are aging into their prime spending years. 2,225: The amount bridge millennials spend on average each year on retail purchases.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

People of all stripes — from millennials to baby boomers, from Generation X to the Greatest Generation — are increasingly swapping the friction of shopping in a store for the convenience of using one of the many connected devices they now own to shop and buy from instead. That’s up sharply from 2017. Bridge Millennials are the 20.7

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AUGUST 3, 2020

American Express (Amex) has introduced a new way for its card members to pay for things. Platinum card holders can now join Green and Gold members with Amex’s buy now, pay later (BNPL) option, dubbed Pay Over Time. In this way, Amex said card members know upfront how much they’ll pay each month. percent and no interest.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Sixty-one percent of small businesses said they use commercial credit cards , a year-over-year decrease from 2017’s 71 percent. At the same time, more than two-fifths of survey respondents agreed that cash flow management is a daily concern, while more millennials said it’s a concern compared to their older peers.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2019

When Honeyfi got off the ground in 2017, it had a pretty simple idea. That means some of the couples on the platform — no matter how long down the path a partnership is — will also want to have some private separate accounts like credit cards or lending products. Plus, he noted, desire for privacy is individual.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Because we are a bank [as well as a payments processor], we can deposit their credit-card proceeds the same day, including weekends, at no additional cost.”. JPMorgan acquired Silicon Valley’s WePay in December 2017. JPMorgan’s strong Q2 performance can be credited to a growing millennial customer base and continued digital innovation.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2018

Millennials are apparently reporting losing money to fraud more often than seniors. But when seniors do become financial victims, they typically take a bigger hit than millennials do, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said in a press release. And tax fraud was the second most common type of identity theft reported by consumers.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2016

As PYMNTS puts away our party noisemakers until next year and throws out our novelty New Year eyeglasses, never to be worn again, we realize that the time is nigh — resolution season 2017 has begun! Here are our 2017 resolution recommendations for our favorite key players this time around. Until mid-February, at least. Oh, chatbots.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

In the payments ecosystem, we need look no further than the bridge millennial for how the connected purchasing experience will evolve over the next decade. Bridge millennials own slightly more devices than the average consumer in our study: six devices compared to the roughly five that most consumers own. This group of 60 million U.S.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2017

According to news from Fortune , customer payment card information was compromised at certain point of sale devices in stores when the encryption on those devices was not operating. “These new, experiential spaces will be focused on accessories, cosmetics and home goods for the millennial consumer.

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MARCH 2, 2020

This month’s Deep Dive digs into the data that guides staffing agencies’ payroll disbursement decisions, including payroll cards ’ pros and cons. Employees’ Payroll Card Opinions. Checks have been common in temporary staffing, but disbursements to reloadable debit cards are drawing new interest. rose from 3.1 million by 2022.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2017

In earnings results posted Wednesday, American Express said that its first quarter of 2017 marked a strong start to the year, driven by stronger card spend by consumers. million new cards globally. Breaking down the revenue by line item, net card fees were up seven percent year over year to $748 million. versus the $1.28

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NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Millennials plan to spend more money this holiday season, and will use their mobile devices to do the majority of their shopping. Discover ’s annual Holiday Spending Survey polled Generation Z, millennials, Generation X and Baby Boomers on their previous holiday shopping habits and upcoming plans to purchase. Consumer Preferences.

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AUGUST 11, 2016

A proposition back in 2011 to close a loophole that enables drug cartels to move large sums of money across boarders using prepaid cards has been delayed but is not dead. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network spokesman Stephen Hudak said the rule is being reworked and could be resubmitted in 2017.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 24, 2018

According to CB Insights data, 9 POS lenders have raised $700M+ across 14 deals since June 2017. a transparent alternative to credit cards. Traditional credit cards are becoming less popular among younger consumers. For consumers, POS lending offers transparent, fixed-payment loans as simpler alternative to credit cards.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

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.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2020

The high point to date for Apple Pay, according to the PYMNTS analysis, was 2017. Et tu , Millennials? But even that frenzied shopping did not give a bump to mobile wallets, as the report concludes that “… mobile wallet usage rates are lower now than they were in 2019, and use is down among a key group of consumers: millennials.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Cards over cash – specifically, debit cards over cash. And debit card transactions, the report notes, have become the most widely used payment method , ahead of cash, at least as measured by value. consumers surveyed made more than half their payments with cards, at 54 percent of payments or 24 transactions.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Forty-four percent of 200 millennials surveyed last year stated they were wholly responsible for making purchasing decisions at the B2B companies at which they worked, and an additional 33 percent played some role in this process. One study found a 46 percent increase in reports of such attacks between 2017 and 2018.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

This could mean receiving funds onto payroll cards or mobile apps, as both technologies free them from having to cash checks or wait for money to appear in their bank accounts. . That means deciding whether to have some or all of their funds delivered by direct deposit, paper check or payroll card. ADP surveyed 500 U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2018

The lucrative “ Bridge Millennial ” consumer segment — relatively high earning and highly educated, and approaching their peak earning years — are particularly fond of this technology, with 31 percent of owning a voice-activated speaker. 5: With Payment Cards. 10: With Contactless Cards. That’s not all. 4: Via Quicker Payouts.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Last month, the financial institution (FI) announced it was expanding the Sapphire credit card brand into new areas of personal finance, including checking accounts. With the new checking accounts, customers will get access to sporting events and other entertainment, just as Sapphire Reserve credit card customers do.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

The credit card company’s annual Digital Payments report, released Friday (Sept. say they have used contactless card technology to make a payment since the technology was first launched in September 2007. card payments made in June of 2017 were contactless, researchers noted. More than a third of U.K.

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2018

percent of GDP, worth roughly $711 million in income in 2017. Right alongside those tallies, payroll cards are gaining traction, having accounted for six million cards at the end of last year and expected to grow to as many as eight million cards in 2022, Aite Group reported.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Pepper, the mobile banking app by Israeli Bank Leumi, is aiming to lure millennials to the service by teaming up with Playbuzz, the digital authoring platform. According to a report , Leumi is partnering with Playbuzz to bring personalized, interactive content to the Pepper app.

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MAY 23, 2017

trillion at the end of the first quarter of 2017, up $473 billion from a year ago and $50 billion above the previous 2008 record. The household debt of 2017 is somewhat different than its 2008 equivalent, since the figures are not adjusted for inflation, wage increases or population size. household debt hit $12.73 The Debt Realigned.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2018

According to the PYMNTS/Unifund Financial Invisibles Report , 81 percent of participants said their financial situations have either remained stable or improved since last year, and the number of consumers seriously delinquent on debt dropped 11 percent between Q4 2017 and Q2 2018. Resetting Mortgage Services.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

This week, I’m compelled to offer a few thoughts that go against the grain on several topics that made the news last week: Amazon’s NY HQ2 , card interchange fees and Facebook ad revenue. own voice-activated speakers, as do more than a third of the 30- to 40-year-old bridge millennials. Card Networks Want to Raise Their Prices.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2018

First, a little bit about the landscape for live Christmas trees — in 2017, U.S. That is helpful especially for “millennial and Generation Xers,” he said. insists that younger consumers, especially millennials , value experiences over mere things, and gravitate toward products seen as organic, sustainable and recyclable. (In

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OCTOBER 1, 2019

1, 2020 — at one point, the deadline was in 2017. It’s not hard to find experts who predict that, even with the new date, gas stations will fail to comply with the deadline, which is set by card networks. The number of EMV payment cards in circulation around the world stands at more than 7.1

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Before you break out your buckled hats and hand-painted turkeys, here are 11 things to know for the coming weekend: 330 million | Annual shipments of contactless payment card units projected for the U.S. 4 billion | What Snapchat aims to raise in IPO in the first quarter of 2017. Happy holidays, indeed.).

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JULY 21, 2017

The data also shared that 56 percent of millennials do not feel comfortable carrying cash in their wallet, which could be due to concerns of either spending it all too quickly or losing it. Finance’s Head of Cards, Richard Koch, commented on these findings and shared future projections for this trend.

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JUNE 25, 2019

P2P and Millennials. For instance, according to one report from LendEDU , a student loan refinancing company, about 33 percent of millennials had paid for drugs via Venmo — and that was in late 2017. Anyone with a bank account and debit card can use Venmo, a likely factor in its P2P reach.

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