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Millennial-Focused Digital Bank Empower Finance Raises $20M

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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.

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

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Make that leather wallet a mobile one, wielded on smartphones. As we noted in this space earlier in the summer, using apps to bank is markedly being embraced by the younger generation. As spotlighted in the Digital Banking Tracker , the global digital banking market is slated to grow by 16 percent, compounded annually.

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Digital Banking, Millennially Mobile

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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.

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Turns Out, Millennials Are Not That Unique

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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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Digital Banking Startup Loot Raises $2.9M Series A

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Another digital banking startup has raised funding this week, this time to expand a current account offering aimed at students and millennials. Loot, a startup begun in 2014 by founder Ollie Purdue — who was finishing up school at the time of the company’s founding — has raised £2.2 million, or about $2.9

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Conversational AI Firm Kasisto Partners with U.A.E. Digital Bank Liv

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United Arab Emirates-based digital bank Liv on Wednesday launched its virtual assistant Olivia, which was built by conversational AI company Kasisto. Olivia, a play on the bank’s name Liv, can check balances and give spending insights through text and the bank’s mobile app. has 210,000 […].

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Serving Mobile P2P Payments To The Gen X Crowd

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Digital banks , for one, are teaming up with technology providers to accelerate settlement times for payments collected at the point-of-sale (POS). Legacy banks are similarly at work, with one major FI seeking to beat out FinTech competition by offering same-day access to credit card deposits. Find the full story in the Tracker.

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