Research/analysis

Research/Research/analysis

Innovate and Launch: How banks can securely leverage cloud to expand into new markets

13 November 2020 576 downloads

News/regulation

Sandboxes help fintech startups raise money

Entering regulatory sandboxes helps fintech startups raise capital, boosting financial innovation, suggests a BIS working paper.

10 November 2020

Research/Research/analysis

Personalisation-as-a-Service: Harnessing Data in the Banking and Payments Industry

30 October 2020 525 downloads

News/regulation

Covid-19 spurs fintech regulation innovation - study

Covid-19 has led to a strong increase in the use of fintech products and services, prompting central banks and other financial authorities to step up their own regulatory innovation efforts, according to a report from the World Bank and the Cambridge Centre For Alternative Finance (CCAF).

29 October 2020

News/security

EBAday 2020: Fraud and cybersecurity - hitting the moving target

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to increased challenges for financial institutions who had to react quickly to the situation, with employees working remotely and increased communication taking place digitally.

23 October 2020

News/retail

EBAday 2020: Open Banking – where do we go from here?

Recent research from ING suggested that consumers remain suspicious and uninformed about open banking despite it now being firmly embedded into the financial services ecosystem across parts of Europe and elsewhere.

16 October 2020

News/payments

FSB publishes roadmap for improving cross-border payments

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has published its roadmap for boosting cross-border payments, which have traditionally been slow, expensive and unreliable.

13 October 2020

News/payments

Capgemini World Payments Report 2020: 38% discover new payment provider during Covid-19 lockdown

More than a third of consumers discovered a new payment provider during the Covid-19 crisis, according to Capgemini’s World Payments Report 2020.

06 October 2020

News/crypto

Renewable energy not as prominent in cryptocurrency mining as previously claimed

The prevalence of renewable energy in cryptocurrency mining is being driven by hydroelectricity, according to a study by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), but APAC’s cheap coal-powered energy is what sets it apart from other regions.

02 October 2020

News/people

Fintech suffering from dearth of women founders - Deloitte

Women make up just seven per cent of fintech company founders worldwide, with little evidence that things are changing, according to a Deloitte report.

02 October 2020

News/payments

2010 revisited: Looking beyond the traditional negotiated financial crisis

As Sibos 2020 approaches, we look back to some of the predictions and forecasts made in 2010 and pick through what other lessons can be learnt from the post-financial crisis world to inform strategy in the not dissimilar economic environment of today.

28 September 2020

Research/Research/analysis

Next-Generation KYC-as-a-Service Solutions

28 September 2020 20 downloads

News/crime

Finance employees deemed least trustworthy

Employees working in the financial services sector are 30% less trustworthy than colleagues in other sectors.

23 September 2020

News/crypto

Investors to increase allocation to crypto assets

The growing number of startups offering crypto investment services will be buoyed by news that institutional investors are set to increase the amount of capital they spend on crypto assets.

22 September 2020

News/payments

Royal Mint will not make new 2p or £2 coins for 10 years

With demand dwindling, the UK's Royal Mint is not planning to make any new 2p or £2 coins over the next decade.

18 September 2020