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Around half of IT professionals think the banking sector will be the most fertile ground for job hunting next year, according to a survey from UK recruitment site IT Job Board.
16 December 2009
Bloomberg has acquired New Energy Finance, a UK-based provider of news, data and analysis on renewable energy, carbon markets and nuclear power. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
10 December 2009
Nearly half of large US banks are leaving themselves unprotected against hijacking of online customer interaction, according to Javelin Strategy & Research.
08 December 2009
Mobile phone-based financial services are approaching a tipping point in the US and banks that fail to act risk losing customers to more aggressive competitors, according to research from Mercatus.
03 December 2009
Starved of affection from the public, UK bankers are looking to extra-marital affairs in a bid to feel loved, according to a survey from an online dating agency.
02 December 2009
The vast majority of UK companies are planning to increase spending on social media in the next year, despite failing to gain real, tangible value from it so far, according to a survey from Econsultancy.
27 November 2009
The pre-paid card market is set to see significant growth in the UK, Austria, Germany and Italy over the next 12 months as people look to control their spending, according to research from First Data.
European security agency Enisa is calling on banks and governments to work together to extend the application of national electronic identity cards as tokens for online banking authentication and remote account opening.
26 November 2009
The vast majority of US and UK banking and capital markets firms have continued or increased funding of large innovation initiatives through the financial crisis yet most do not see innovation as a way to rebuild their businesses over the coming years, according to a survey from Accenture.
25 November 2009
Government and industry activism is vital if the potential of mobile banking is to be fully tapped to bring financial services to the world's poor over the next 10 years, according to a report from World Bank think tank Cgap and the UK's department for international development.
20 November 2009
North American merchants appear to be fighting back in the battle against e-commerce fraud, with losses in 2009 down 18% on the previous year, to $3.3 billion, according to tech security outfit CyberSource.
19 November 2009
Comparison sites are not providing UK users with a good enough service for financial products, with the majority of Brits not trusting them to find the best prices, according to research from Which? Money.
18 November 2009
The US futures markets is set to be the next battleground for high frequency traders, as rapid uptake of algorithmic strategies leads to a surge in the proportion of volume traded on an automated basis, according to Tabb Group.
17 November 2009
Even in the age of tweets, texts and friend requests, talking to someone face-to-face is still the preferred method for Americans when communicating with their bank, according to a survey from market research firm Mintel.
13 November 2009
The Western European mobile money market is finally set to take off and will be worth up to EUR5 billion by 2013, according to research from Frost & Sullivan.
With the vast majority of Brits regularly using social media, businesses should follow suit and embrace the medium as a customer service channel, research from first direct suggests.
11 November 2009
Inflexible IT systems and bottlenecks in technology development are the two greatest barriers to innovation at European retail banks, according to research from Infosys. Meanwhile, a separate report from the Indian vendor reveals nine out of 10 US banks think IT is vital to innovation.
06 November 2009
A staggering two thirds of quantitative analysts think their supervisors do not understand the work they do, according to a survey from training outfit 7city Learning.
04 November 2009
Despite the growing popularity of online and mobile banking, over half of Brits would only place their savings in an institution that has branches on the high street, according to a survey for Deloitte.
03 November 2009
In the midst of the global financial crisis, Canada's largest and most active institutional fixed-income traders led a long-awaited move into electronic trading, according to research from Greenwich Associates.
29 October 2009
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