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The Federal Reserve says it is on track to hit "significant milestones" this year in its long journey towards finally bringing faster payments to America.
27 January 2017
2016 was the year that China's fintech dragons roared, dominating VC spending while investment in some previously feted leaders in other parts of the world wilted, according to a report from Citi.
26 January 2017
Financial services firms rushing to adopt blockchain need to make sure that they address the security challenges associated with the technology, the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (Enisa) has warned.
23 January 2017
The number of US data breaches tracked in 2016 hit an all-time record high of 1093, up 40% on the previous year, according to a new report from the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) and CyberScout.
20 January 2017
Finra (the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) has become the latest organisation to give its two cents on distributed ledger technology, publishing a paper on blockchain's implications for the securities industry.
19 January 2017
Blockchain technology could reduce infrastructure costs for eight of the world’s 10 largest investment banks by an average of 30%, saving them billions of dollars every year, new research from Accenture and McLagan suggests.
17 January 2017
Company update/Research/analysis
The European Fund and Asset Management Association (Efama), in cooperation with Swift, published a new report about the evolution of automation and standardisation rates of fund orders received by transfer agents (TAs) in the cross-border fund centres of Luxembourg and Ireland during the first half of 2016.
15 December 2016
The rise of mobile and contactless payments means that by 2026 cash will account for less than a quarter of all transactions in the US, according to research from law firm Paul Hastings and the Centre for Economics & Business Research (Cebr).
The European Central Bank and Bank of Japan are embarking on a research project looking into the use of distributed ledger technologies for market infrastructure.
07 December 2016
Israel's Bank Leumi is hoping to win over millennials to its new mobile-only offshoot Pepper by teaming up with digital authoring platform Playbuzz to bring personalised, interactive content to its app.
01 December 2016
Almost one in three workers in London face an uncertain future over their employer's plans to relocate the business.
25 November 2016
Ken Research declared its latest production on “Online Retailing in Europe, 2015-2020; Market Dynamics, Retail Trends and Competitive Landscape,” which offers vast information on the changing trends and significant issues involved in the Europe Online Retail market.
SyndicateRoom, the online investment platform which allows individuals to invest alongside the professionals, today launches its study Rise of the Growth Hunters to support UK investors who are looking for faster growth in 2017.
With contactless payments becoming ubiquitous in many parts of the world, more than 16 million NFC-ready POS terminals will ship this year, according to Berg Insight.
16 November 2016
Distributed ledger technology will be widely used in capital markets within six years, completely changing the settlement model for securities, according to a Deutsche Bank survey of industry players.
14 November 2016
Cyber risk is seen as a bigger risk to the global financial system than a Donald Trump presidency or Brexit, according to a Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) survey.
08 November 2016
Distributed ledger technology has the potential to ease a host of operational pain points with UK payment systems and could be particularly useful for reference data databases, a report from Whitechapel Think Tank (WTT) suggests.
02 November 2016
India is set to overtake the US as the world's second largest ecommerce market within the next 20 years thanks to a young, connected and growing middle class, according to research from Worldpay.
27 October 2016
As established banks rush to close branches in favour of digital channels and a host of new mobile-only challengers enter the field, new research suggests that customers still want the human touch.
26 October 2016
The value of cash withdrawn from ATMs in eleven major Asia-Pacific markets has soared by 50% since 2011, according to ATM Hardware, Software and Services 2016, a report from RBR, the specialist ATM research and consulting firm.
25 October 2016
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