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Can a Mobile Lending App Save Millennial Credit Ratings?

Bank Innovation

Millennials hate credit — but a new service called Lenny is out to change that. It will reach Texas, Florida and New York in the next 10 to 12 months, according to the company, which claims that, in less than three Read More. Lenny is meant for mobile (of course) and launched today in California.

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The Coming Millennial FinTech Crisis

PYMNTS

While they enjoy many FinTech innovations, most millennials don’t have a snowball’s chance of earning more than their parents — ever. It’s one thing for the millennial offspring of the billionaire hedge-fund scions to fall short of making a billion because they only manage to pull down $760 million a year. It’s a fact.

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Craft Silicon Puts Banking into Messaging Apps

Bank Innovation

Messaging apps dominate smartphone use, particularly by millennials, so shouldn’t banks want to be where their customers are? At FinDEVr in New York Wednesday, CEO Kamal Budhabhatti Read More. Craft Silicon, based in Nairobi, Kenya, certainly thinks so.

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BJ’s On The Block, Amex’s Millennial Problem And Another Big Breach

PYMNTS

This week we saw scientists march, the French go to the polls and a $400 high-tech juicer turned out to be an innovation on par with something that everyone already has: their hands. The long-suffering team at American Express has a new headache to handle — losing the love of those millennial customers. Ready to jump in?

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Enticing Millennials With Experiences Using ?Neighborhood Goods?

PYMNTS

The old model of opening a retail store with merchandise as a main focus of the space may not appeal to today’s consumers – millennials in particular. They are also an experimental bunch, with 30 percent of them having tried a new merchant in the past month, according to the PYMNTS Connected Consumer Playbook.

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‘Stranger Things’ And Starcourt Mall Teach Us About Big Tech And Innovation

PYMNTS

They grilled execs from Google, Amazon and Facebook over claims of their size and power, which is said to be driving smaller companies out of business, reducing opportunities for new innovators to emerge and tilting the competitive playing field too far in their direction. That’s what teenagers did 34 years ago for fun.

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From Investing To Budgeting, How Millennials Are Disrupting Personal Finance

CB Insights

While the media often portrays millennials as preoccupied with the rising prices of festival tickets and avocado toast, their real financial concerns are a bit more practical. But millennials face significant headwinds in making those financial dreams a reality. get the REPORT on next generation investors. From big banks to big tech.