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From Investing To Budgeting, How Millennials Are Disrupting Personal Finance

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A 2018 survey by Bank of America shows that millennials’ top financial priorities were saving for emergency funds (64%), saving for retirement (49%), and saving to buy a house (33%) — not much different from the concerns their baby boomer parents had 30 years ago. From big banks to big tech. get the REPORT on next generation investors.

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Vietnam’s Digital Finance Landscape: Banks Gain Ground Amidst Shifting Competition

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Vietnam’s digital finance landscape is undergoing a notable shift as new players emerge, established ones fade, and traditional banks rise to prominence, a new report by Decision Lab shows. However, by Q4 2023, Moca had slipped out of the top rankings, replaced by mobile apps from traditional banks.

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If Facebook Wants To Be WeChat, Why Did It Launch Libra?

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To understand why, we need to do a little time travel back to July 2017, when Facebook’s Messenger and its monetization strategy was front and center in the company’s Q2 earnings report. In fact, on Facebook’s Q2 2017 earnings call , there were high fives all around for its Q2 results. Just like WeChat did. Of Messenger and Libra.

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13 Southeast Asian Fintechs Among CNBC’s Global Top 250 List

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The list, produced by CNBC in collaboration with market research firm Statista, highlights the world’s top 250 fintech companies across eight market categories: payments, wealthtech, business process solutions, neobanking, alternative finance, financial planning, digital assets and banking solutions. billion (US$4.4

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

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In 2017, Andreessen Horowitz general partner Alex Rampell said that of all the tech giants that could make a major move in financial services: “Amazon is the most formidable. If Amazon can get you lower-debt payments or give you a bank account, you’ll buy more stuff on Amazon.”. Table of Contents: Amazon’s product strategy.

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24 Industries & Technologies That Will Shape The Post-Virus World

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As more people have worked, learned, banked, exercised, relaxed, and even sought medical care from home during Covid-19, they have gotten a crash course in just how much can be accomplished at home. Branchless banking. BANKING, HEALTHCARE, RETAIL SECTORS LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE SIGNIFICANT GROWTH IN CHATBOT USE. Cloud call centers.

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Sleepless In 2017: The Eight Big Shifts That Should Keep FIs, Retailers and Payments Execs Up At Night

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Like the giant puzzle pieces that keep the Earth’s surface in equilibrium, the ecosystems that represent how consumers pay, how they bank, how they borrow, how they shop and how they decide when, where and what to buy used to be easily defined and neatly connected. The Unbundling Of The Bank. The Commoditization Of Retail.