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Digital banking? Isn’t that just an app?

Chris Skinner

I talk to them about the fintech world of change and how millennials are reshaping banking, from Stripe, started by two … The post Digital banking? Some are visionary, many are committed and a large number understand that life is changing. Few understand how. Isn’t that just an app?

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Millennial-Focused Digital Bank Empower Finance Raises $20M

PYMNTS

San Francisco-based Empower Finance, a mobile banking app aimed at helping millennials save wealth, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round led by Defy Ventures and Icon Ventures, according to a report. The digital banking field is fraught with competition. billion after recently closing a financing round.

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Turns Out, Millennials Are Not That Unique

Bank Innovation

Millennials are in the driver’s seat of innovation. But a new study from FIS, released this week, suggests that millennials are not as unique as many think — at least in terms of financial service preferences. If you’re in fintech, you’ve probably heard that statement more than once.

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Millennials are digital banking savvy—but they want more from banks

Accenture: Banking

Just how digital are Millennials? Retail banks are asking this question to tailor banking customer experiences to a digital savvy generation with growing earning power. While Millennials are digital banking devotees, banks should not assume that’s all they’re about. Read more.

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Digital Banking, With Millennial, Mobile – And Governmental – Tailwinds

PYMNTS

The push toward digital banking seems an inexorable one, with the technology and demographics acting as tailwinds, and where governments have increasingly gotten into the act of promoting digital banks (the pure-play kind) and making forays into bits and bytes, where once paper and face-to-face transactions reigned.

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FinTech Bridges Millennial Investing Gap

PYMNTS

To move toward retirement, and to have the money in place to get there, millennials need to make the leap from bare bones banking — checking and savings — into investing. Statistics, he said, show that three out of five millennials don’t invest at all, opting instead to stay on the sidelines.

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Digital Banking, Millennially Mobile

PYMNTS

As found by the Digital Banking Tracker , the younger generation is apt to use apps, especially when it comes to navigating accounts. Data: 31 percent: Share of consumers who use mobile banking apps more often than other apps. 16 percent: Estimated CAGR of the global digital banking market through 2024.