PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Macy’s is partnering with the female-led millennial venture capital fund SoGal Ventures to launch an in-store initiative focused on women-owned businesses, Macy’s said in a press release on Thursday (Dec. SoGal was co-founded by Pocket Sun and Elizabeth Galbut in 2016 and is headquartered in New York City.

Las Vegas 136

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2019

Silicon Valley-based financial services startup Earnin has potentially run afoul of New York State regulators with its payday advance product for consumers. New York is one of 15 states where payday lending has been banned and interest rates have been capped at 25 percent.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

Visa said Monday evening at a New York gathering in anticipation of the launch that events through a year-long campaign will include interactive workshops, tailored on a community-by-community basis. And 61 percent of those queried said they self-funded their business. What’s On Tap. An inaugural Jan.

Atlanta 189

Atlanta New York social media Community 189

American Banker

MAY 2, 2016

Amalgamated Bank in New York has started offering down payment insurance to homebuyers in a move it hopes will set it apart with highly mobile millennial borrowers.

Millennials 28

Millennials New York Mobile Payments 28

Independent Banker

MARCH 15, 2015

Texting millennials enters their private zone. Ask permission before texting or emailing them, and don’t abuse the privilege of your direct access with over-communication. Millennials want to be acknowledged. But do community banks know the unwritten rules of successfully engaging with millennials? Seek permission.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Texting millennials enters their private zone. Ask permission before texting or emailing them, and don’t abuse the privilege of your direct access with over-communication. Millennials want to be acknowledged. But do community banks know the unwritten rules of successfully engaging with millennials? Seek permission.

Millennials 70

Millennials Community Bank Community social media 70

PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2019

More than 100 Goodwill store locations ranging from New York to San Francisco are uploading products like collectibles, clothing and furniture to the platform to drive in-store and online sales. Goodwill Industries of Greater New York and Northern New Jersey, for instance, teamed with Price.com.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

That is the founding premise behind WOOLN, a New York-based startup created by Margaux Rousseau and Faustine Badrichani, two French millennials and knitting enthusiasts who expatriated to the U.S. Not your own grandmother’s hat, maybe, but someone’s grandmother’s hat. And winter is coming.

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NCR

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The 24-year-old consults with companies worldwide on how to reach the millennial audience. So last year, the New York resident left the big bank, setting up an account with Simple, an FDIC-insured direct bank based in Portland, Oregon, where he can do all of his banking online – without any monthly fees.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

communities. That matters because as time goes by and existing cities become prohibitively expensive — think San Francisco, New York City and Los Angeles, with Chicago, Boston and other areas not far behind — many younger, well-educated consumers are making moves to exurban or even rural areas, or smaller cities.

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Payments Los Angeles San Francisco New York City 131

PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2019

In other words, bringing back the idea of the shopping destination as a community gathering point — with shopping, but also activities that create engagement: speakers, dining, product launches and local brands. The next stop: New York. “If If you had asked me where we would be going next, I would not have said New York.

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New York Retail Branding Online 144

PYMNTS

MAY 9, 2018

And it’s not just about that much-reported millennial “side hustle” either. Gig” is really just a new word for “freelance,” and that’s a concept that’s been around for a long, long time, encompassing much more than the ridesharing and delivery services that come to mind when one hears about the gig economy.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2020

A big part of the new retail investments in the short term will likely involve finding ways to make brick-and-mortar retail appealing to more customers, especially members of the millennial and Gen Z generations, who are coming into increasing earning power. But Kohl’s is sticking by its Amazon program, saying it brings benefits.

Retail 131

Retail New York City Exercises New York 131

PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2018

The face of the small business owner is changing, and not only because millennials are coming into their entrepreneurial age. New data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics published last week offered the U.S. a look at just how large the gig economy has become, with more professionals opting to be their own boss – at least part-time.

Survey 109

Survey Taxes Data Community 109

PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2018

Since shortly before Christmas 2017, the brand has been pushing health, home and beauty- themed pop-up shops in its flagship store on New York City’s Fifth Avenue. The pop-up program is also designed around building a sense of community, or at least a communal conversation, about their offerings. Pop-up stores.

Retail 101

Retail Los Angeles Branding New York 101

PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2016

This month’s edition of the tracker features an interview with Scott Reich and Michael Winik, co-founders o f OurHarvest , a New York-based pop-up initiative that’s part farmers market, part online grocer. After all, if people aren’t carrying bills – or even cards – with them, how will traditionally non-digital retailers keep up?

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Retail Maine New York Millennials 104

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Here’s where trial and error come into play, and where a sense of community also helps to reinforce the notion that when it comes to exercise , reinforcement is key. A monthly 10-class package in New York City, for example, costs $135. Said Hall, especially in the millennial age, “friends help keep people accountable.”.

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Exercises Community New York City United States 103

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 previously raised $111 million in venture funding from Accel, Bessemer Venture Partners, Square Peg Capital, Qumra Capital and others.

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Apple Mobile Fraud Branding 159

PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2019

New York City and the Bay Area combined,” he said. The customers tend to be on the young side — that is, below the age of 35 — which speaks to the focus on sustainability among millennial and younger consumers. “We We want to build a community around shared values,” Cherny noted. Only 6 percent are from L.A.,

Retail 116

Retail New York City Millennials Boston 116

PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2019

Flash forward to 2018, and the brand had successfully made that more consumer-centric push as more millennials discovered the joys of plant ownership. Our next question is how do we continue to scale that — and really build a community around indoor gardening.”. And the goal, with the now $7.8

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Online New York Millennials Branding 109

PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2016

Housing mini Sephora stores within the department store chain’s larger footprint has allowed the retailer to both attract a younger (read: millennial), more product-savvy beauty consumer, while introducing its core customers to new products and brands. As PYMNTS reported, on Jan.

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 3, 2018

How do we balance strategic direction, customer demand, and the futurist or wildly over-caffeinated millennial that tells us we have to implement every shiny new object or we'll die? Six years ago I asked in a blog post Will Plain Vanilla Kill Community Banking ? Maybe those millennial futurists don't remember this.

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Apple Millennials Massachusetts FDIC 64

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? The math comes out to one per week. What about gift cards?

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Bitcoin ATM Cards Los Angeles 100

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Phair told The New York Times that “pure-play eCommerce” is beginning to give way to a blended omnicommerce experience that doesn’t draw a distinction between digital and physical commerce so much as it tries to merge them into a single customer journey with many on-ramps.

Retail 102

Retail Branding Customer Experience Online 102

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2018

“It has been approximately six months since we broadly rolled out the redesign of our application, and we have been working hard to iterate and improve Snapchat based on the feedback from our community,” the CEO wrote. Tencent was also named as a possible natural corporate home for Snap Inc.,

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Apple social media Millennials Report 181

PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2016

A few years ago, The New York Times took a shot at the quantification of fun with an article that does the rounds on social media every summer in late June despite the fact that it is now four years old. This year, 89 percent of millennials are planning to take a vacation. The New York Times is right.

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United States National New York Data 101

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Mark Turner, Executive Chairman of the Board, WSFS Bank – We have to give the nod to an early 2019 retirement of Turner, who had one hell of a run in 12 years at the helm of a great community and wealth bank. It was always clear how much Jones loves his credit union, his team and his community. Credit Union Lifetime Achievement Awards.

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NCR

JUNE 14, 2016

April kicked off Financial Literacy Month so we recently talked with Becky Stapleton, senior executive vice president and chief banking officer at S&T Bank, to learn about the various initiatives they host in order to promote financial literacy in their local community. S&T Bank is a community bank in every sense of the term.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

One where grocery stores, restaurants and eCommerce can deliver anything and everything to your home almost instantly by drone, payments are automatic, doctors do house calls, people communicate by FaceTime and most of the labor force works remotely. Research shows that consumers want more personalization and convenience.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Popular media coverage of millennials often fixates on the industries the generation is allegedly killing and their supposed fiscal irresponsibility. Some industries benefiting from millennials’ increased spending power, such as travel, reflect well-worn Gen Y tropes like the general preference for “experiences” over things.

Millennials 78

Millennials Industry Branding social media 78

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Notably, millennials are more lifestyle-focused, placing a greater value on health and wellness over material goods than ever before. According to Eventbrite data, 78% of millennials would choose to spend money on a desirable experience over buying physical goods. Meet Maya, our hypothetical wellness-focused millennial consumer.

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Trends Branding Examples Industry 76

CB Insights

JULY 17, 2018

Instead, new millennial-inspired and tech-infused dining trends have been emerging across the US and internationally. Many of yesterday’s casual dining brands are dying, but not because millennials “don’t eat out.” Community initiatives: Loom (Massachusetts). Dining out. the Future of food report.

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San Francisco California United States CA 69

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2015

To those community bankers claiming their growing Compliance departments say no to everything. Community bank marketing resources. Two very strong and focused community banks unite to combine big bank reach with community bank style and make the bet that it can scale to $15 billion and beyond. New Payment Species Award.

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Community Bank Apple Community Technology 60

PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2016

As Messenger chief David Marcus told The New York Times , “We’re conversational creatures …That’s the way our brain functions.”. It’s creating a parallel universe for Facebook with messaging in which all the communication between people and businesses will be within its walls.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2017

An explosion of new consumer finance brands is transforming how people save, spend, and manage their money. Ninety-two million millennials will soon be in what Goldman Sachs calls their “prime spending years.” Robinhood’s clutter-free user interface design is flypaper for millennial audiences. trillion in annual spending.

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Tools Millennials US Maine 78

Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 1, 2016

To give you a sense of the many new ideas at the upcoming FinovateFall conference in New York, we’ve launched our Sneak Peek series. Bankjoy offers developers a banking API for a modern, real-time, holistic interface for credit unions and community banks.

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How To Analytics Millennials Data 12

CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This includes the Investor’s Exchange (IEX) and the Long Term Stock Exchange (LTSE), which take aim at market data and exchange access fees charged by major exchanges like Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). IEX will let companies list for free for the first five years, before charging a flat annual rate of $50,000.

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