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Share price volatility is affected by the chatter of public opinion on social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook, according to UK financial professionals.
13 February 2013
The Irish are writing far fewer cheques than they did ten years ago but the country remains one of the few in Europe where the paper instrument is still widely used, central bank figures show.
07 February 2013
With the Sepa migration deadline now just a year away, Europe's businesses still have a long way to go, with only 30% of credit transfers and two per cent of direct debits compliant, according to Experian.
01 February 2013
An ever increasing reliance on technology brings considerable risks for the financial services industry, with bungled automated decisions costing many firms both money and customers, according to research from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).
31 January 2013
Indian banking and securities companies will spend 416 billion rupees on IT products and services in 2013, an increase of more than 12% on last year, according to Gartner.
30 January 2013
US banks think that new regulations on cross-border transfers will hit the payments business hard without benefiting consumers, according to a poll from vendor Fundtech.
29 January 2013
Despite spending a growing slice of their marketing budgets on social media activities, retail banking executives remain unclear about the value of the investment in the face of continuing consumer distaste for engaging with brands online, according to research commissioned by Pitney Bowes Software.
23 January 2013
The number of recorded fraud cases in the UK rose five per cent last year, to nearly 250,000, according to Cifas, with identity theft accounting for more than half of all incidences.
21 January 2013
Britain's banks may have taken a reputational battering in recent years, but they are still trusted more than the government when it comes to protecting customers from fraud, according to an ACI Worldwide survey.
The US Federal Reserve is set to embark on a major study into the volume and composition of electronic and cheque payments as it bids to gain insight into a rapidly evolving landscape.
18 January 2013
Spending on IT by banks in North American will rise at a steady clip over the next two years after a rocky 2012, according to Celent.
10 January 2013
Thanks in large part to the adoption of EMV technology, card fraud has been on the decline in the European Union but it still pulls in around EUR1.5 billion a year for criminal gangs, says Europol.
08 January 2013
Smartphone penetration in the UK may be 60% and rising but 2013 is unlikely to be the year of the mobile wallet, according to ICM Research.
04 January 2013
Most Americans think mobile phone payments will eventually replace cash and cards at the checkout, but few expect it to happen within the next five years, according to a poll from Harris Interactive.
12 December 2012
Despite the fact that most Brits are now au fait with contactless technology, few ever use their tap and pay cards and retailers are doing little to encourage take up, according to ICM Research.
11 December 2012
More than a trillion dollars will be spent around the world using mobile devices by 2017, according to IDC Financial Insights, although this will still represent only a drop in the commerce ocean.
16 November 2012
The vast majority of buy-side firms feel that institutional investors have had no meaningful influence on the legislative process building up to new MiFID II rules, according to a Greenwich Associates survey.
14 November 2012
Despite a tough economic climate, the vast majority of retail banks around the world are still increasing their spending on innovation, with online and mobile services seen as priorities, according to a survey from Infosys and Efma.
13 November 2012
Most US institutional equity management traders think that off-exchange activity is now hitting market quality but opinions vary over what should be done about it and by whom, according to research from Tabb Group.
There is no link between high-frequency trading (HFT) and market manipulation, according to research from Australia's Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre (CMCRC).
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