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Open Banking Is A Must for Millennials, Bankers Claim

Bank Innovation

It’s crucial for banks to start participating in the finance revolution, especially as millennials are on the hunt for open banking—at least, according to bankers. According to a survey of 300 banking officials, conducted by Marketforce and Earnix, developing open APIs is becoming more and more crucial to retaining customers.

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Who needs millennials?

Chris Skinner

I have had many, many conversations about reaching the millennial customer. We need to be attractive to millennials? Millennials think differently, how do we reach them? Millennials are rejecting banks, is that right? The challenge today is to think like a Millennial. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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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. Our target customers are millennials.

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How Pilot Is Innovating Corporate Taxes For Millennial-Run Businesses

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Recent research finds that 67 percent of millennial business owners operate independent companies rather than franchises. Recent research finds that 67 percent of millennial business owners operate independent companies rather than franchises. Proper tax education is critical to any business’s future, Daher said.

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Baby Boomers vs. Millennials: Which Generation Has More Entrepreneurs?

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The millennial generation is often viewed as the entitled group of youngsters that believe everyone should get a participation trophy, while baby boomers are typically seen as more of a “pull yourself up by your own bootstraps” kind of generation. What makes this even worse is that millennial unemployment is an astounding 11.5

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

PYMNTS

As many as 72 percent of bridge millennials say mobile apps are important for accessing bank accounts. Last week, money transfer company B2B Pay said it plans to become a regulated financial institution and is raising money to pursue licensure. The age of personalized service is upon us. Circling back to the U.K.,

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Robinhood May Sell Shares Directly To Users If It IPOs

PYMNTS

Robinhood ’s platform is popular with amateur retail investors, particularly millennials and Gen-Zers. 16, Massachusetts securities regulators filed a complaint against Robinhood alleging that the company aggressively marketed to inexperienced investors and failed to implement controls to protect them, violating state laws and regulations.