PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The New York-based FinTech company Petal has announced a $300 million debt round from global investment bank Jefferies, adding to existing venture capital investments from Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures, Rosecliff Ventures and others, the company announced in a press release on Wednesday (Sept.

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PYMNTS

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

DECEMBER 19, 2016

While they enjoy many FinTech innovations, most millennials don’t have a snowball’s chance of earning more than their parents — ever. It’s one thing for the millennial offspring of the billionaire hedge-fund scions to fall short of making a billion because they only manage to pull down $760 million a year. It’s a fact. population.

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PYMNTS

MAY 26, 2017

American Express has rolled out a new small business credit card as part of an ongoing effort for the company to step back from its reputation as an elite-only credit card company. American Express OPEN said Thursday (May 25) that it has launched the Blue Business Plus Credit Card developed for entrepreneurs.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2017

The environment for the adoption of prepaid cards in a payroll setting is a mixed one. Loading salaries onto cards and giving those cards to employees can cut down on the costs of working with manually creating and printing (and sometimes mailing) checks.

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Let's Talk Payments

MAY 24, 2016

Survey finds that high-income and millennial consumers have the highest credit card usage in income and age categories, and most in favor of paying in installments New York, NY—May 23,

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2020

Bloomberg also reported that page views for Zillow’s suburban listings outside of formerly hot urban areas like New York City and San Jose, Calif., There’s [also] a lot of demand for rental homes that we’re seeing because people are fleeing especially hot spots like New York.”. rose as much as 10.5

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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

JUNE 8, 2020

billion hit in April, with revolving debts like credit cards taking the hardest hit — falling by a steep 64.9 In some cases, credit-card holders increasingly complain about banks slashing their credit limits or canceling their cards involuntarily. According to the latest Federal Reserve data , U.S. consumer borrowing dropped 19.6

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Used to be that you went to Fashion Week in New York to rub elbows with Tom Ford, Ralph Lauren and Stella McCartney. Klarna has melded New York Fashion Week glitz with experiential retailing this year. This year, however, the power positions are likely to be filled by Jeff Bezos, Denise Incandela and David Sykes.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Coinsource, America’s largest bitcoin ATM provider, just announced proudly that the company now has 55 ATM kiosks, after adding six new ones in California — four in Los Angeles and two in San Francisco. The average rate of a new bitcoin ATM? What about gift cards? The math comes out to one per week. Just like cash.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2017

While millennials aspire to seek out meaningful experiences, they don’t necessarily have the spending power that enables them to do so. While on the other side of the coin, there are millennials who like to go out in groups, with budgets that may be more restricted but with time to go out more frequently. BB: Yes, exactly.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2020

The ease and speed of credit cards and similar payment methods spook many consumers, especially when such transactions often lead to interest rate fees and other costs later in the year, souring in-the-moment purchases. Millennials and members of Gen Z are primarily driving this shift, with the former at the height of their spending power.

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Payments Source

JANUARY 29, 2019

The New York based Petal uses machine learning to optimize the limited financial data available for low-information consumer groups and millennials, who often turn to installment loans from companies such as Affirm, Klarna and PayPal Credit.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Statistical swarms of millennials and Gen Zers report never having used a paper check. It got so bad that New York City became the first municipality in the nation to pass a law making it easier for freelancers to sue for payment. Their perception of banking, aside from ATMs, is entirely app-based – and mobile.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2019

“Sometimes customers don’t have cash, or don’t have the right amount, and cards are fast and convenient.”. 48 percent of people use cards as one of their payment options at vending machines — and of those who prefer card payments, 82 percent cite convenience as the top reason.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Singapore-based Kredivo ended 2019 with lots of new funding raised, while New York-based Splitit was among the BNPL providers that logged $1 million in transactions, according to the latest edition of the PYMNTS Buy Now, Pay Later Tracker. Fighting the Credit Card Fear . and around the world.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Red Sox fans here at PYMNTS vividly remember seeing a more unlikely turnaround when the New York Yankees managed to blow a three game lead in the ALCS, thus pulling off the biggest choke in the history of sports. Disappointed millennials rejected by credit card companies. Millennials — Once Rejected, Twice Shy.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Called See You Tomorrow , its “re-commerce experience” will include an online marketplace and brick-and-mortar location housed in the Nordstrom New York City flagship store on 5th Avenue. It is playing the sustainability card this year, with Fashion Footprint Calculator.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

Titled “Why the Future of Merchant Payments Requires a Digital-First Approach,” the webinar generally revolved around questions related to the development and ongoing rise of omnichannel commerce — already a major topic in the payments and commerce world in these first weeks of the new year. Trust Issues.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2019

By the first quarter of 2017, household debt had passed its 2008 peak of $12.657 billion, according to a new report released by the New York Fed. The trend, according to the report, is visible in most major debt categories — particularly home and credit card lending. As of the last quarter of 2018, total U.S.

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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

MAY 17, 2018

SkyHi focuses on offering shorter flights from New York to Chicago or New York to Miami. SkyHi’s bread and butter is leisure travelers, particularly millennials between the ages of 23 and 27. Travel is already relatively seamless for Poola, as he lives in New York City and has a monthly Metro Card.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2017

It took almost a full decade, but Americans’ debt level has reached a new all-time high, surpassing the $12.68 According to the latest data out of the New York Federal Reserve , total U.S. While mortgage delinquency rates continue to fall, delinquency rates on auto loans and credit cards are trending up. Diverging Trends.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2019

This year’s parades and festivals carry special significance as they mark the 50th anniversary of New York City’s Stonewall Riots. Patrons and neighbors of the Stonewall Inn gay bar resisted an aggressive police raid in 1969, kicking off a new phase of political activism for LGBTQ rights in the process.

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Payments Source

JANUARY 29, 2019

The New York based Petal uses machine learning to optimize the limited financial data available for low-information consumer groups and millennials, who often turn to installment loans from companies such as Affirm, Klarna, and PayPal Credit.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2018

When you think about millennial couples today, they are unlike any previous generation. To that end, Zola launched a paper-based save the date and invitations business, allowing customers to customize cards and upload photographs. for some time, getting engaged these days is very different than it was even a generation ago.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

He recounted an anecdote that involved a high-end restaurateur in New York City who found maintaining a location to be expensive. We are in a mobile age powered by smartphones wielded by millennials, which Dye said (a bit tongue-in-cheek of the devices) are full of enough wizardry to get us to the moon and back.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2019

This is especially true when attitudes toward holiday payment standbys like credit cards rapidly change between generations. Shoppers are collectively expected to spend more during the 2019 holidays than last year, but many are still paying down credit card bills from 2018’s purchasing sprees.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2016

These heavy overdrafters were mostly millennials and Gen Xers — two-thirds of whom paid the fee for an overdrawn debit card transaction. Among millennials, the group that was found likely to take a stronger hit from overdraft charges was students, as The New York Times pointed out.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2019

The company recently filed paperwork with the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) to go public on the New York Stock Exchange. The company integrated GO-PAY into the GO-JEK app, which lets customers store money on their mobile phones, much like a digital debit card. Just under $3 billion – or $2.7 billion in 2017.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

They can then choose the regions or neighborhoods in which they are comfortable staying, and pay for their room with a credit or debit card via Stripe. The company’s target market includes Gen Z and millennials. The company offers rooms in markets like New York, San Francisco, Nashville, New Orleans, Chicago and Orlando.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

Travel industry services are catering to the thousands of millennial and Gen Z travelers who are booking big trips by augmenting their platforms with online and mobile support. They can come to the site and book five nights in New York City, for example, and those stays could include parking services for just the first two nights, Shust said.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

But a new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the U.S. As recently reported by PYMNTS, 61 percent of small business owners said they use commercial credit cards for B2B payments. Bill still entices young people to join the military, and still benefits veterans after they leave service.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2016

I can’t have an effective employee if they are stressed and thinking about waiting tables on the side to make ends meet,” said Erik Dochtermann, chief executive of New York creative media agency MODCo Media, which has 33 full-time workers. The move comes as the American worker is facing leveled-up debt.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

With that new business model and technology, Metromile launched in 2016 and is currently available in eight states, which include California, New York, Washington, Pennsylvania and Arizona. “I The rest includes a number of other factors, like the number of accidents the drivers had, the type of card and the specific Metro area.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2017

New York Times writer Lee Speigel spawned a lot of conversation, outrage and numerous think pieces with his article about his decision to default on his student loans and “never look back.”. Millennial Troubles. About 44 percent of millennials hold student debt — or about 33 million people.

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