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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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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 App Rankings Get Into A Groove

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We like the action, of which there is no shortage in the digital banking space. Legacy names and newcomers alike are ranging freely across the forming digital banking landscape, with digital anywhere access portals in their pockets — the smartphone. From the top it’s challenger bank Chime at No. The Top 10.

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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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Latest Digital Banking App Ranking Holds Some Surprises

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They are the brands tracked in PYMNTS’ Provider Ranking of Digital Banking Apps for October 2020, and the surprise can’t be spoiled because, with two very notable exceptions, there aren’t any. 1 spot on the latest ranking of digital banking apps, with its valuation hitting $14.5 8, is Germany-based direct bank N26.

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Wells Fargo Shuts Millennial-Friendly App ‘Greenhouse’ To New Clients

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Wells Fargo has quietly stopped accepting new users for its Greenhouse mobile-first banking app, which the bank unveiled less than three years ago. The enrollment period for the Greenhouse mobile banking program has ended, and we’re no longer accepting new applications,” the company wrote on the Greenhouse program’s website.