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A Securities and Exchange Commission pilot designed to encourage trading in the shares of smaller companies has cost investors more than $300 million over its two years run, according to analysis from Pragma Securities.
07 September 2018
Artificial intelligence is changing the finance industry, with some early big movers already monetising their investments in back-office AI applications. But as this trend widens, new systemic and security risks may be introduced in the financial system, warns a new report from the World Economic Forum and Deloitte.
24 August 2018
Alternative payment methods such as mobile wallets now account for just over half of ecommerce transaction value in Asia Pacific, according to research from GlobalData.
14 August 2018
It may dominate industry chatter, but Open Banking has still to enter the public consciousness, with nearly three quarters of Brits unaware of the initiative, according to a YouGov survey.
01 August 2018
The US Treasury Department has called for a radical overhaul of financial technology regulation, backing a new national fintech charter, the introduction of sandboxes, and the opening up of access to consumer data.
31 July 2018
Despite regular reports of its imminent death, the British bank branch is not going anywhere for some time, suggests a new report from the FCA which says that, even with the rise of mobile banking, physical networks are still crucial in attracting new customers and fending off competitors.
29 June 2018
Institutional investors plan to use less sell-side research in the coming years, relying more on proprietary in-house work that takes advantage of AI, according to a study commissioned by Thomson Reuters.
Singapore's government has outlined plans to develop a governance programme around the use of artificial intelligence and personal data in its bid to become an international centre for new technology.
13 June 2018
Britain’s challenger banks are outperforming incumbents when it comes to overall customer satisfaction, according to research from vendor FIS.
29 May 2018
Central bank cryptocurrencies are a bad idea but central bank electronic money could have big benefits, improving financial stability, simplifying monetary policy and reducing the reliance on cash, say researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis.
08 May 2018
Rising fears of cybercrime are prompting financial services firms to beef up their spending on security, according to research from Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking.
07 May 2018
More than a quarter of Americans now bank exclusively through digital channels, but these customers are less satisfied with their service than people who use branches, according to a survey from JD Power.
03 May 2018
Nearly half of US adults have increased their mobile banking usage in the past year, with almost a third of Americans using their banking app more than any other on their phone, according to a Citi survey.
27 April 2018
While significant progress has been made during the last eight years towards establishing a global reporting framework for over-the-counter derivatives transactions, substantial work remains in the areas of data consistency, aggregation and access in order to be able to effectively monitor and reduce systemic risk, according to the DTCC.
25 April 2018
VC-backed fintech firms raised a record $5.4 billion in the first quarter of 2018, boosted by a dozen mega-rounds of at least $100 million, according to the latest figures from CB Insights.
23 April 2018
Financial inclusion is on the rise globally, accelerated by mobile phones and the internet, but gains have been uneven across countries and men remain more likely than women to have an account, according to a new World Bank report.
20 April 2018
Many banks are not doing enough to verify the validity and accuracy of their data, leaving them vulnerable to false insights that could lead to bad decisions, according to Accenture.
Two thirds of large banks have already deployed artificial intelligence and machine learning, according to a survey carried out by Tabb Group, yet the vast majority are still unaware of how to apply the technology to solve business problems.
19 April 2018
As the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in a host of industries, not least the financial services sector, gains traction, the House of Lords has called for the UK to lead the way in the ethical development and deployment of the technology.
16 April 2018
The cryptocurrency mania of late 2017 spread like an infectious disease but we may have already reached the immunity threshold, meaning speculative interest in the likes of Bitcoin has possibly already peaked, says a new research report from Barclays.
13 April 2018
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