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From Investing To Budgeting, How Millennials Are Disrupting Personal Finance

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Investing: Robo-advisors and micro-investing lower barriers to entry. Simple, an early contender founded in 2009, floundered following its 2011 launch before ultimately being bought by Spanish banking giant BBVA in 2014. Investing: Robo-advisors and micro-investing lower barriers to entry. Active investing.

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Everything You Need To Know About What Amazon Is Doing In Financial Services

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Webpay failed to gain user traction and was shut down in 2014, unlike up-start Venmo (now a part of rival payments processor PayPal). With the talent acquired from GoPago, Amazon launched Amazon Local Register, a card reader for SMBs in August 2014. Its first entry point in the market was in payments in October 2014.