PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2020

Millennials have long been sought-after travel and hospitality customers, partly because they are perfectly placed to seek such experiences. This unique status creates both opportunities and challenges for firms in the space, as millennials search for the experiences they crave. Furthermore, millennials are set to spend $1.4

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2019

In a sign of the times, American Express is increasing the rewards on its Blue Cash Preferred Card, announcing 6 percent cash back on U.S. American Express said the Blue Cash Preferred Card will still offer 6 percent cash back in U.S. “If I had to pick, I’d argue that the best potential fits are older millennials and Gen Xers.

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Payments Dive

OCTOBER 12, 2022

That buy now-pay later outlook emerged from a new Bluedot survey that also showed 43% of consumers are likely to open a new store credit card during the yearend shopping period.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 27, 2016

26) new research that revealed over six out of 10 millennials declined for credit are not seen applying again for at least 12 months. A frequently referenced Bankrate.com study reported that 63 percent of millennials do not have a credit card. Fewer than half of millennials, the largest generation of U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2020

India’s pay-later app Slice is introducing a no-fee Visa card that offers its Gen Z and millennial customers cash back and no-cost EMIs during festive sales. “We Payments startup Slice was founded in 2016 to cater to the financial needs of the Gen Z and millennial generations.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Not willingly – unless you use a credit card at the POS terminal, that is, in which case you’ll pay the retail price plus 21 percent. Multitudes of Americans woke up and wised up to the true nature of credit after the Great Recession, driving a surge in the use of debit cards. Would you pay interest on a cup of coffee?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Consumers — especially millennials and Generation Z — are looking for new commerce experiences during the 2019 holiday season. However, they are also hesitant to pay for those new experiences with credit cards or other traditional financing options. How Bridge Millennials Are Driving More Demand For Flexible Payments.

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Payments Dive

JULY 23, 2024

Gen Z and millennials are driving spending, sometimes as premium customers, to the benefit of the credit card company.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Luxury retailers are also targeting millennial and Generation Z consumers to expand their customer bases, with one report showing that millennials accounted for 35 percent of high-end retail purchases, for example. Australia-based installment payment provider Afterpay , for example, has seen its revenues hit $3.8

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

Avid Modjtabai, Wells Fargo’s head of Payments, Virtual Solutions and Innovation, said at the time that “whether you are new to banking, don’t have regular paychecks or typically manage money with cash, we believe the Greenhouse experience can help you manage day-to-day spending while planning for the future.”. For instance, J.P.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

EXCLUSIVE – Millennials are famously credit-averse, but this means they risk losing out on building a credit history, which is necessary for, among many other things, getting a mortgage when they want to buy a home.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Peer-to-peer ( P2P ) payments are exploding. P2P payment network Zelle’s Q3 results show its year-over-year payment values rose by 58 percent, while transaction volume increased by 73 percent. Last month, Bank of America revealed that it saw a 76 percent year-over-year increase in Zelle payments in Q3.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 1, 2018

A new report shows that millennials use Venmo more than they use ATMs as if there was any doubt that to this audience an app like Venmo is a prime method of payment. Rubiix, a social spending app that distributes advertising revenue among its users, released a report Friday showing ATM transactions among millennials have […].

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Recent research by PYMNTS and Afterpay found that millennials are especially enthusiastic about these flexible payment options, and prefer them more than any other generation. percent of millennials report being financially stable, compared to 79 percent of non-millennial consumers. In fact, only 20.7

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Razer Fintech and Visa have unveiled a new prepaid card, dubbed the Razer Card, now in its test phase. Right from the start, we have been very excited about our collaboration with Visa to transform the digital payments experience globally,” said LiMeng Lee , Razer Fintech CEO, in a press release.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

In today’s top payments news around the world, India’s pay-later app Slice is introducing a no-fee Visa Card, while Stripe is purchasing payment processor Paystack. Slice Integrates No-Fee Visa For Millennial Shoppers In India. Stripe To Acquire African Payments Processor Paystack.

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Let's Talk Payments

AUGUST 2, 2017

Believe it or not, tech-savvy millennials are ditching smartphone apps and mobile wallets in favor of a longstanding payment method – prepaid cards. Once thought of as an option used.

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Payments Dive

MARCH 11, 2016

A new study finds that 48 percent of millennials don't trust banks and see pay cards as a good way to avoid dealing with them.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2016

Credit card issuers will be encouraged by the latest data from The New York Fed. Credit card use, after many years of slowdown after the financial crisis of 2008, is now exploding. Among the Millennial generation, the level of credit card debt is at its lowest level since 1989, when data collection began.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Digital has certainly advanced further and faster than anyone predicted at this time last year, and the ground that’s been taken is unlikely to ever be surrendered back, Helena Mao , vice president of global product strategy for payment solutions at Blackhawk Network , told PYMNTS in a recent conversation. “I Digital Gift Cards ’ Growth.

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BankBazaar

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

While millennials are borrowing more than pre-millennials and post-millennials, they are still conscious about how much debt they are taking up…. Did you know that India’s millennials fall in the biggest borrowers’ category within the country? This is higher than the average score of non-millennials, which is 734.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Maybe millennials really are a self-centered bunch? New data suggests that they are buying more gift cards than ever before but then turning around and spending those cards on themselves. adults in June of this year to examine the shift in gift card consumers to prepaid and rechargeable cards issued directly from retailers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

They want convenient booking tools, fast payment methods and secure reservations when planning their trips, and these needs have not changed much as millennials have come of age. Competition is thus a multilevel event for hospitality services that need to juggle payment innovations, user perks and security.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Turns out even millennials don’t care that much about mobile payments. According to a report presented by the tech consultancy Accenture at Money20/20, the number of those of us in North America who use our mobile phones to pay at the point of sale hasn’t changed in the slightest since last year, Read More.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2017

is a rally cry that would perk the ears of many millennials, but how about “ Mastercard , assemble?”. The card network is hoping that’s the case, as it rolls out the first use case stemming from its recently launched global prepaid money management platform. What Millennials Want. “Avengers, assemble!”

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2020

Payments company Afterpay , which works in the buy now, pay later ( BNPL ) space, is rolling out a new feature called Pulse to help reward those who make payments on time, a press release says. Pulse purports to give new benefits to the younger customers like millennials and Gen-Z, who the release calls “the most valuable.”

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2021

A transformation toward contactless payments is underway at the nation’s credit unions as the public shuns cash and even physical cards to lower infection risks with COVID-19. Offering touchless payments thus has the potential to drive merchants’ performance through consumer preference. The High Stakes Of Offering Contactless.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2020

There is a growing list of things millennials have seemingly been blamed for rendering obsolete, such as cocktail napkins, casual dining and expensive engagement rings. Billing issues and payments is the most common reason, cited by 29 percent of cardholders, followed by fraud and data security, cited by 23.8

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Is there a secret sauce for merchants to capture the evolving millennial? One formula that offers engaging consumer experiences, and doesn’t insult the intelligence of millennials, is a combination of private-label debit and rewards or loyalty programs. Reaching Millennials. However, millennials care about more than price.

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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2017

Turns out millennials are not the different-kind-of-banking-breed some had thought. In a survey held from the end of June into early July and conducted by SurveyMonkey , the web-based survey firm queried more than 1,000 adults above the age of 18, 290 of which were defined as 18- to 34-year-olds: millennials.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 23, 2018

In an effort to attract millennials to its platform, Square is offering a pilot program that gives its Square Cash Card customers a dollar off their coffee purchases. The effort could change millennials’ payment behaviors, MarketWatch reported.

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American Banker

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

credit card balances continue to march above $1 trillion, the number of newly delinquent credit card users now exceeds the pre-pandemic average and millennials and those with student or auto loans are driving the increase in past-due payments, the New York Fed said.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Among those who said they would increase spend, about a third of millennials and Gen Xers said they would increase spending. A third of bridge millennials will increase their usage of mobile devices, more than any other segment. And when consumers do go online, gift cards are winning the season. percent will use a laptop or PC.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 8, 2017

Affirm, the lending startup that provides loans at the POS, is looking into launching everyday-use virtual credit cards, Bank Innovation has learned. The company, launched by a PayPal cofounder Max Levchin, provides point-of-sale loans that allow customers, particularly millennials, to finance purchases with participating merchants.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Capital One Financial Corp (CapOne) is putting a stop to buy now, pay later (BNPL) transactions on its credit cards, calling the dealings “risky,” Reuters reported on Monday (Dec. Customers who use their debit cards or checking accounts can still make BNPL payments, the CapOne spokeswoman said.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The stated goal, according to new CEO Jim Brett – is for the brand to build back its audience particularly among millennial shoppers. And as Karen Webster noted in a commentary on the rise of the Bridge Millennials – and what it will mean – merchants are not wrong to be a little obsessed with this group of consumers. “We

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

As Nick Reid, director of B2B partner development at Conferma , said in an interview with PYMNTS, virtual cards can help eliminate those hidden costs. Reid noted that, although there are no upfront fees for making payments by checks, there are glaring inefficiencies tied to payments made by paper means.

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