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Report lays out Nordic fintech manifesto

The majority of fintechs in the Nordic and Baltics belive that the region can dominate the fintech landscape in years to come but only if they can secure greater access to investment capital.

05 June 2019

News/Research/analysis

Digital banking now part of everyday life in Europe

Digital banking is now firmly entrenched as a part of everyday life in Europe, a Mastercard survey shows, with security and convenience the most important factors for people looking to manage their money online or through their phones.

05 June 2019

Company update/Research/analysis

Asian card spending in Europe soars

JCB International, Co., Ltd. (JCBI), the international operations subsidiary of major global payment brand JCB, today reveals a 63% growth in annual sales volume made by Asian cardmembers in Europe between 2017 and 2018, and a 45% global growth in total annual sales volumes in the past four years, now reaching over 130 million cardmembers worldwide.

04 June 2019

Company update/security

New Strong Customer Authentication rules could cost Europe EUR57bn - Stripe

Today, payments infrastructure company Stripe released a new study conducted by 451 Research forecasting that Europe stands to lose €57 billion in economic activity in the first 12 months after SCA takes effect.

04 June 2019

Company update/Research/analysis

Banking Circle issues white paper on financial inclusion

Ground-breaking financial utility, Banking Circle, is on a mission to improve access to global financial services for businesses of all sizes.

03 June 2019

Company update/Research/analysis

89% of merchants 'primed for open banking' says Nuapay research

Eighty-nine percent of airline, supermarket and subscription economy merchants are primed for Open Banking and have assessed the impact it will have on their business a new piece of research commissioned by Nuapay, a Sentenial company, has revealed.

03 June 2019

Company update/Research/analysis

SMEs benefit from cashless payments says study

The trend of card payment at the point of sale (POS) continues in Germany: Today more than half (52%) of customers prefer to pay cashless. This development towards digital payment offers significant potential for increases in sales and efficiency as well as cost reduction for small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs).

03 June 2019

News/Research/analysis

China and India lead global fintech services adoption

Fintech is mainstream, according to a global survey from EY which finds that financial technology services are used by the majority of people in India, China and the UK, although are considerably less popular in the US, France and Japan.

03 June 2019

News/Research/analysis

Will you be able to make trades directly from your mind in 2069?

What will trading technology look like in 50 years? Trades powered directly by thoughts, hardware that inhibits the influence of negative emotions, and mobile-phone based 3D trading rooms could all be in our future, predicts a report.

30 May 2019

News/security

FI CISOs to ask for bigger cybersecurity budgets

Nearly three quarters of chief information and security officers at financial institutions plan to ask their firms for an increase in cybersecurity investments in the next year, according to a survey.

29 May 2019

Company update/security

Kaspersky reports rise on mobile banking malware

Kaspersky Lab researchers have uncovered a worrying rise in malware designed to steal credentials and money from users’ bank accounts: in Q1 2019, researchers found 29,841 files of such malware, up from 18,501 in Q4 2018.

23 May 2019

News/Research/analysis

Is Open Banking being hobbled by outages?

The UK's Open Banking revolution is being hampered by outages that banks are taking weeks to fix, according to figures from SME lender Growth Street - an analysis that has been categorically refuted by the Open Banking standards setter.

23 May 2019

News/payments

Deutsche Bank warns ISO 20022 migration not just another IT project

The migration to ISO 20022 offers a major opportunity for banks and corporates, but it is not simply "another IT project" and will require CEO commitment and allocation of appropriate budgets, according to a Deutsche Bank guide.

20 May 2019

News/regulation

ECB paper warns of regulatory arbitrage on crypto-assets

While crypto-assets do not currently pose a threat to the euro area's financial stability, a disjointed approach at the national level could trigger regulatory arbitrage and hamper the resilience of the region's financial system, says an ECB paper.

17 May 2019

News/Research/analysis

Brits wary of new banking tech, despite high demand

Brits expect their banks to deliver the latest technology to them but are less likely to rush to use it, suggests a survey from ING.

15 May 2019

News/startups

Fintech is UK's top tech sub-sector

Fintech is the UK's top technology sub-sector when it comes to attracting investment, according to two new reports.

14 May 2019

News/Research/analysis

Report questions value of insurtech despite record investment

Investment in the insurtech sector reached record highs in Q1 2019 yet there is lack of obvious value in the many of the newest insurtech offerings, according to a recent report.

13 May 2019

News/Research/analysis

Germany sees card payments overtake cash

Germany, one of Europe's last bastions of cash, has seen card payments eclipse traditional cash-based payments for the first time according to a new study.

10 May 2019

Company update/Research/analysis

DTCC white paper offers vision for central clearing in US treasury cash markets

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced the release of a new white paper that explores the current structure of the U.S. Treasury securities market, highlighting potential risk and resiliency issues, and describing initiatives that could promote greater use of central clearing.

07 May 2019

News/Research/analysis

American FIs prepare for faster payments revolution

The vast majority of American financial institutions are experiencing, or soon expect to experience, a demand for faster payments, according to a survey from the Center for Payments.

06 May 2019