Bank Innovation

APRIL 1, 2016

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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

Titled “Why the Future of Merchant Payments Requires a Digital-First Approach,” the webinar generally revolved around questions related to the development and ongoing rise of omnichannel commerce — already a major topic in the payments and commerce world in these first weeks of the new year. Trust Issues.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2016

But setting up shop on the edge of the festival and hawking blatantly branded products is a little too gauche for Coachella attendees who want to preserve the festival’s sanctity (whether it ever existed or not), which leads more than a few companies to turn to social media and the tricks of contextual commerce.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

For instance, a search for August tickets from New York to Paris might yield a graph showing that the aggregate fare is toward the upper limit of average, while results for a September trip to Paris from New York might show that tickets are less expensive than they usually are that time of year.”. I’m happily surprised.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

30) from the Columbia Spectator , which covers news important to students at Columbia University and Barnard College in the global fashion capital of New York City. Even so, “Forever 21 bankruptcy signals a change in consumer tastes,” The New York Times declared.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Releasing AR headsets would put the social media giant in direct competition with AR startups like Magic Leap and Thalmic Labs. Then, in June , it was reported that H&M is rolling out a voice-activated mirror in a flagship New York City location.

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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. These entrepreneurs would like to sharpen their social media skills to broaden reach and grow their firms. What’s On Tap.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

One of the takeaways from the Platform Economy Playbook is that amidst tech innovations like artificial intelligence (AI) to help personalize clothing selection and speed up delivery and social media-powered commerce, customer service has become a differentiator. Ann Taylor and New York and Company were early participants.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Model and social media celebrity Chrissy Teigen is, in many ways, the perfect brand partner for Target, as evidenced by her recent review of her new kitchen and cookware lines. They are increasingly seeing the upper-end of their prime demographic, a group PYMNTS titled bridge millennials.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2020

The bread of social media, like the people who were posting photos of it, always looked its best when presented to the world. Cottagecore and its strength as a social media movement are something of a contradiction. Will cottagecore face the same fate once consumers are less confined to their “cottages?”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

By adopting a DTC model that is run nearly entirely online (with the exception Toronto and New York showrooms), Mejuri cuts out a lot of middleman, marketing and overhead expenses that tend to run up the cost of jewelry on the commercial market. Getting them onto the digital portal has been, if not easy, at least organic.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Three ways millennials could accelerate FinTech trends in 2016. When it comes to finance, millennials are a generation known to be conservative in spending and distrustful of financial institutions. Thus, it’s not shocking that millennials are a driving factor in the growing financial technology, or FinTech, movement.

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NCR

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Chris Coleman bills himself as the Social Media Superhero. The 24-year-old consults with companies worldwide on how to reach the millennial audience. He generates one-time payments from many of these gigs, making direct deposit of his fees difficult, if not impossible.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

The rise of eCommerce , the push toward omnichannel shopping platforms, the increasing relevancy of social media on shopping habits and the development of the Internet of Things to plumb every last morsel of data on customers and what they spend money on are all rapidly and drastically altering the face of retail.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Social media was largely considered more friend than foe, most consumers still used passcodes instead of fingerprints to open their mobile devices, and Tom Brady was merely a great athlete instead of the fountain-of-youth demi-god he is today (PYMNTS is based in Boston, so just go with us on that one). Back to 2012.

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Independent Banker

MARCH 15, 2015

Texting millennials enters their private zone. Millennials want to be acknowledged. Millennials are leery and untrusting of sales pitches, but they’re eager for unbiased financial information and assistance. 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. Millennials want to be acknowledged. Millennials are leery and untrusting of sales pitches, but they’re eager for unbiased financial information and assistance. But do community banks know the unwritten rules of successfully engaging with millennials? Seek permission.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Social media was largely considered more friend than foe, most consumers still used passcodes instead of fingerprints to open their mobile devices, and Tom Brady was merely a great athlete instead of the fountain-of-youth demi-god he is today (PYMNTS is based in Boston, so just go with us on that one). Back to 2012.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Turnarounds in tech — and in social media in particular — are not unheard of, Nathanson wrote, meaning it is not impossible for Snap to snap back from all this. According to The New York Times , the investment by the Chinese internet giant aimed to give the struggling Snap a boost of confidence.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Whether it’s Netflix or Spotify, Farnsworth explained, millennials prefer subscription services for their anytime, on-demand access and the seamless experiences they offer. The New York City-based company had surpassed 500,000 subscribers as of late September.

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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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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2016

In New York City, the tab apparently averages out at around $82,299, while in Chicago the proper celebration of eternal love and fealty runs at about $61,265. For those keeping score at home, that is a $1,400 increase over last year — and $5,500 over the last five years. And those are just the averages.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2016

The startup drew jealous ire from competitor Facebook/Instagram , success from millennials and confused befuddlement from baby boomers this year, along with a $1.81 Hey, sometimes, keeping up the good work is enough, and 2016 was certainly a good year for Snapchat. billion funding round back in May. It seems to be working for it.

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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.

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MyBankTracker

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The company was founded in New York City in 1849 and produces medicine and vaccines for a variety of diseases. How to Buy Facebook Stock: Invest in the Social Media Network. How to Pick a Brokerage When You’re New to Investing. 4 Investments Millennials Should Be Considering.

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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.” Dining out. the Future of food report. How are food leaders adapting in 2018? Photo credit: Gothamist.

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CB Insights

JUNE 4, 2019

Fueled by social media, consumers want to get a hold of the latest trends as quickly as possible, and retailers must rapidly increase production to meet demand. From there, the clothes are recycled into new items instead of ending up in landfills. Source: Ellen MacArthur Foundation. Sustainability on the runway.

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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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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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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

Orders that once took hours to fulfill are being delayed by weeks in areas hit particularly hard by Covid-19, such as New York City. FreshDirect , an online grocer serving the New York City metropolitan area, saw a 60% increase in online activity in March 2020 compared to the same period in 2019. Source: CNN Business.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 23, 2018

CPG startups have launched distribution partnerships with hotels, airlines, and other non-store channels, aiming for a win-win: the startups get to access a new market, while the traditional company gets a new source of innovation. Startups are marketing to millennial employees at work.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2015

No one has been more successful at using social media to generate awareness and a positive image for their bank than Jill (@JillCastilla, @CitizensEdmond). Jill’s use of Twitter is a model for any bank CEO looking to engage on social media. New Payment Species Award. Millennials. Freudian Slip Award.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

As with a growing number of fintech solutions, AutoGravity combines several innovations we’ve seen individually in fintech demonstrations over the years – document scanning, the integration of social media with credit application, geolocation – to produce a solution that seeks to disrupt traditional auto financing as we know it.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2017

We were living in New York at the time, and it was a very small couch in our very small apartment. Their small apartment in New York was what had tipped off the problem. We got married, had kids and it was time to make a major life decision: stay in New York, move to the suburbs or go someplace totally different.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2018

Part of it is a savvy social media-based distribution model through WeChat. Chinese consumers have a reputation for loving luxury that is well-earned, The New York Times reports – but they also really love a bargain, and Pinduoduo’s explosive growth in the eCommerce scene proves it. The firm claims to have 343.3

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The ultra-high-end spa launched a new retail brand last week called Sway. It is unashamedly aimed at millennials. From the moment millennials and urbanites walk through the door, they will relax and interact in the multi-sensory experience,” the company says. Then there’s Spavia. In other words, it’s vulnerable. Since the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2016

And early location sponsoring has already been on evidence in the early days – the New York Post reports L’inizio Pizza Bar in Long Island City in New York spent $10 to have a dozen Pokemon characters placed in the location with a “lure module.”

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