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New research from Celent predicts that adoption of mobile banking is set to increase rapidly in the major markets in Western Europe over the next two years as banks look to take advantage of improvements in technology to provide new services.
09 May 2008
The UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) has warned that some insurance comparison Web sites could be misleading customers by failing to provide clear and accurate information.
08 May 2008
Over half of the UK's building societies are planning to introduce an online savings channel in the next year in a bid to attract and maintain customers during the current economic gloom.
Two major mobile banking programmes targeting unbanked customers are being launched in Africa and Latin America. News of the initiatives follows the release of a study predicting m-banking could play a major role in reaching people outside the regular financial system.
07 May 2008
Despite the fall out from the global credit crunch, risk professionals working in the capital markets industry saw their total compensation increase by an average of seven per cent in 2007, according to a global survey by recruitment outfit Risk Talent Associates (RTA).
01 May 2008
Retail banks on both sides of the Atlantic are increasingly turning to virtualisation technologies to centralise deployment and management of IT resources, cut costs and save energy, according to research commissioned by Microsoft.
29 April 2008
Credit and debit card fraud continues to undermine consumer confidence and threatens to hinder the development of a cross-border payments network in Europe, according to a European Commission (EC) report.
28 April 2008
Around a third of the UK's online population - 10.9 million people - accessed their bank account via the Internet in January, according to Web metrics firm comScore.
The latest dealing room survey from Kimsey Consulting forecasts that around 12,000 trading positions will be cut around the world by 2011, but expenditure on trading technology is set to rise globally by 4.3% over the same period.
Despite the impact of the global credit crunch, IT salaries in the investment banking sector are being kept afloat due to "aggressive moves" for staff by firms unaffected by the downturn.
25 April 2008
The number of people making payments using their mobile phones globally is set to soar from 32.9 million in 2008 to 103.9 million in 2011, according to analyst house Gartner.
24 April 2008
Financial analytics vendor FactSet Research Systems is to acquire a copy of the Thomson Fundamentals database from Thomson Reuters.
23 April 2008
A new study released by Juniper Research predicts that retailers will have issued almost three billion mobile coupons to customers by 2011, with just under $7 billion of discounts redeemed.
Spending on technology by sell side firms in North America will rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of just 1.3% through to 2011 - down significantly from the 8.5% growth seen between 2004 and 2007, as companies hit by the credit crunch revise IT budgets, according to a study by analyst house Celent.
Disparities in the implementation of the European Payments Services Directive (PSD) across EU borders may lead to a reinforcement of national payments networks and undermine the push for a single euro payments area (Sepa), says a new report from IT services firm Logica.
22 April 2008
The economic slowdown has prompted hard-up Brits to shy away from plastic in favour of notes and coins to pay for purchases on the high street, according to new trading figures released by the British Retail Consortium (BRC).
21 April 2008
Bank of Ireland (BoI) is investing EUR250,000 in a two year research project with the University College Cork (UCC) that will focus on the use of technology to improve banking services.
The demise of cheques in Western Europe is set to accelerate over the next few years, with around 60% of retailers no longer accepting them by 2015 as electronic cards and mobile payments gain in popularity, according to research commissioned by Visa.
18 April 2008
The number of people accessing banking services via their mobile phones is set to soar to 816 million by 2011 - a ten fold increase on 2007, according to a global study by analyst house Juniper Research.
16 April 2008
UK payments association Apacs is urging Web banking customers to be extra vigilant following a 200% jump in the number of phishing attacks in the first quarter of 2008.
15 April 2008
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