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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. Investing: Robo-advisors and micro-investing lower barriers to entry.

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How Robots Are Shaking Up The Grocery Industry

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It has gained speed in 2018, showing how fulfillment — in many cases, following the lead of Amazon — is relying less on human participation as eCommerce buyers continue to change their shopping habits and expectations. online supermarket operator that earlier inked a deal with Kroger for entry into the U.S. Robotic Growth.

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

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In 2009, a decade after PayPal started offering online payments, San Francisco-based startup Square brought payments innovation to the point-of-sale , allowing businesses with smaller transaction volumes to accept card payments with its card reader and mobile phone card reader. on payment volume. Source: Square. Get the full report.

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How Blockchain Tech Could Disrupt Real Estate

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ChromaWay announced that it had completed a full transaction on the platform in June 2018. Bank of China Hong Kong (BOCHK), for example, stated in mid-2018 that it processes 85% of real estate appraisals using its own private blockchain. This requires networks that can handle large transaction volumes quickly and efficiently.

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

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In 2023, the company processed over 50 million transactions and achieved annual volume close to US$80 billion. Aspire’s platform has quickly gained popularity in Southeast Asia, tripling its annualized total payment volumes in 2023 to US$12 billion. Airwallex has raised a total of US$902 million, achieving a valuation of US$5.5

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

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The company announced it would pass on the special card savings Amazon gets from card networks (because of the volume of purchases they can guarantee) to retailers that adopt Amazon Pay. In December 2018, Reuters reported that Amazon was looking at airports as a potential Amazon Go partner. That scale would make Amazon Go a $4.5B

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

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For example, in 2018, 18% of American doctors reported treating a patient via telemedicine. Going forward, companies seeking to optimize their e-commerce capabilities may rely more heavily on conversational agents as the volume of online orders increases and consumers seek new ways to purchase goods and services online.

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