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Christmas shoppers are expected to spend a record £5.6 billion online during December, a 55.6% rise on the same month last year, says UK payments association Apacs.
30 November 2007
A new report released by The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) estimates that 8.3 million Americans - around four per cent of the US population - fell victim to identity theft in 2005.
29 November 2007
Despite the global credit crunch, over half of US financial services firms are planning on increasing professional hiring in 2008, with IT and sales staff expected to be in greatest demand, according to a survey by recruitment consultant Claymore Partners.
28 November 2007
Around 90% of futures trading will be conducted through automated dealing platforms - including market making and quantitative black-box trading systems - by 2010, according to the latest estimates from Tabb Group.
The Payments Council, an independent body established to replace the Office of Fair Trading's Payments Systems Task Force earlier this year, is mulling plans to phase out paper-based cheques in favour of a UK-wide shift to automated and card-based payments.
26 November 2007
The market for low-latency messaging middleware is set to rise from $95 million in 2007 to $168 million in 2010, a three-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 107% as investment banks ramp up spending on the technology to cope with rapidly increasing message volumes, according to forecasts from Tabb Group.
21 November 2007
A new study from Boston-based consultancy Aite Group predicts rapid take-up of multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) in Europe following the introduction of MiFID, with volumes on alternative systems expected to increase steadily from around three per cent at the end of 2007 to over 20% by the end of 2011.
14 November 2007
The number of US customers using mobile banking services will accelerate over the next five years, rising from 1.1 million in 2007 to more than 40 million by 2012, according to forecasts from TowerGroup.
Integration between the Internet bank and branch banking channels is key to improving the customer experience, according to a pan-European study conducted by TNS on behalf of Fujitsu Services.
09 November 2007
Customers that use electronic bill payment services have higher account balances and profitability and are more loyal to their financial institution than non-EBPP customers, says a new US study released by CheckFree and SunTrust.
08 November 2007
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