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Capital market firms have little appetite for investing in large-scale fintech projects and are instead showing an overwhelming preference for cheap, short-term projects according to research.
11 December 2015
UK banks are reaching a tipping point in the fight against financial crime, with more than 60% agreeing that there is enough or too much regulation, but inadequate enforcement, according to research from LexisNexis Risk Solutions.
03 December 2015
Over 60% of risk managers at financial services firms think that the probability of a "high-impact event" on the global system has increased over the last six months, with worries about cyber-attacks driving the rising jitteriness, according to a Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation survey.
01 December 2015
Alternative payment methods such as ewallets are overtaking cards as the most popular way to buy online, according to new research from WorldPay.
25 November 2015
Regulatory issues are set to be the biggest hurdles facing financial technology firms over the next year, according to a survey of fintech founders and investors.
18 November 2015
The rise of bitcoin could leave central banks struggling to implement monetary policy and unable to act as lenders of last resort, the Bank of Canada's senior deputy governor has warned.
17 November 2015
Toronto has all the ingredients necessary to become a major fintech hub but is failing to compete with the likes of London and New York because it has not developed a proper ecosystem, according to a new report.
06 November 2015
The vast majority of retail banks around the world have increased their investments in disruptive technologies this year as they seek to fend off a surge of new technology, telco and fintech competitors, according to research from Infosys Finacle and Efma.
05 November 2015
A survey by Accenture has found that almost half of the world's biggest banks have no directors with any technology experience on their board.
27 October 2015
Forensic researchers from France have called a scam that saw thieves embed two chips in a payment card to carry out a man-in-the-middle attack "the most sophisticated smart card fraud encountered to date".
21 October 2015
Apple and Google may have boosted awareness of mobile payments in North America over the last year, but actual usage has remained flat, according to a survey from Accenture.
20 October 2015
Financial services firms should begin planning for the avalanche of new data that will hit them through the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT), which, if used correctly, could bring huge benefits to the industry, according to a Deloitte University Press report.
16 October 2015
More than two thirds of capital markets firms say that data quality is hitting costs and driving them to look into replacing siloed data management systems, according to a survey from Accenture and Greenwich Associates.
14 October 2015
Banks must embrace fintech companies or risk being left behind as the payments landscape undergoes a radical technological overhaul, according to a new report from BNY Mellon.
09 October 2015
Global non-cash payments volumes are expected to increase by nearly nine per cent in 2014, as massive emerging markets such as China and India begin to go electronic and mobile money takes off in developed countries, according to the latest annual World Payments Report from Capgemini and Royal Bank of Scotland.
06 October 2015
Despite the fact that the majority of Americans still do not have EMV payment cards ahead of tomorrow's deadline for a switch from magstripe, an industry taskforce insists that the migration is "on track".
30 September 2015
The Bank of England's chief economist has floated the prospect of abolishing paper cash and replacing it with a state-backed digital currency as a way of facilitating negative interest rates.
18 September 2015
Fintech startups in the San Francisco Bay Area tend to raise far more in capital funding than those in other parts of the US, figures put together by the Financial Solutions Lab (FinLab) suggest.
14 September 2015
With contactless cards and mobile payments growing in popularity, a quarter of Brits think that in just five years' time they will no longer need cash, according to a survey for Lloyds Bank.
31 August 2015
Trade association Payments UK has vowed to improve access to payments infrastructure and give customers more control over transactions as part of a drive to ensure Britain has a "world class" system.
28 August 2015
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