Research/analysis

Research/Research/analysis

Addressing the Poverty Premium: A data-led approach

05 November 2021 296 downloads

Research/Research/analysis

Continuous Reinvention: The holy grail of Digital Transformation

03 November 2021 313 downloads

News/payments

Visa boasts it is fuelling BNPL around the world

With new RBC analysis suggesting that the US buy now, pay later market is set for explosive growth, Visa says issuers, acquirers and fintechs are snapping up its instalment payments technology.

27 October 2021

News/predictions

European fintech funding booming but could be set to stall

European fintech funding rebounded from its pandemic lull in the first half of 2021, according to a Finch Capital report which nevertheless warns that the boom could stall again next year.

19 October 2021

News/sustainable

Reaching net-zero will require $5 trillion every year for the next 30 years, says BoA report

Ahead of COP26, Bank of America Global Research has issued a net-zero primer and stocks picks report, which predicts that $5 trillion will need to be invested every year for the next 30 years, if global emissions targets are to be reached.

15 October 2021

Research/Research/analysis

Five Factors to consider when building Operational Resilience

12 October 2021 252 downloads

News/Sibos

McKinsey: Firms should prepare for the ‘inevitable changes’ of CBDC

McKinsey’s annual Global Payments Report released on day one of Sibos 2021, outlines a positive, albeit unbalanced, return to growth across the sector after Covid-19, underscoring the action firms should take in anticipation of widespread digital currency adoption.

11 October 2021

News/startups

British Business Bank finds external finance used by more than four in ten businesses in UK

The British Business Bank has published its first annual ‘Regions and Nations Tracker’ report. The report looks at UK regional disparities in access to growth finance for smaller businesses.

08 October 2021

News/Sibos

Sibos 2021: Finextra's bespoke channel to deliver tailored conference highlights

Since 2003, Finextra Research has partnered with Swift to bring you a special-purpose financial services news channel, designed to keep Sibos attendees and the wider global banking community up-to-speed with news and views direct from the conference.

01 October 2021

News/crypto

Visa bids to make digital currencies interoperable

Visa is working on a 'universal payment channel' (UPC) that enables interoperability between different digital currencies such as CBDCs and private stablecoins.

30 September 2021

News/payments

Claro takes anti-BNPL campaign to London's streets

As a new study suggests that the ballooning BNPL industry is not taking market share away from credit cards, financial coaching app Claro Money has taken to London's streets with a billboard campaign urging Brits to "Say bye now to Buy Now, Pay Later".

24 September 2021

News/regulation

UK fintechs call for smart data right to drive open finance

A coalition of UK fintechs has signed an open letter calling on the government to fast track a 'smart data right' that enables consumers to control their data, opening up the potential of open finance.

21 September 2021

News/regulation

CCAF, World Bank and World Economic Forum call on fintechs to uncover Covid-19 impact

The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), World Bank and World Economic Forum are calling on fintechs to participate in data collection for the group’s Global Covid-19 FinTech Market Impact & Industry Resilience Study before its October deadline.

20 September 2021

News/startups

UK sees drop in new fintechs as investors focus on sure bets

After a whirlwind decade that has seen more than 1000 startups launched and go on to raise over £11 billion between them, the UK fintech scene is starting to mature, with investment in early-stage rounds slowing and the number of companies founded declining as investors focus their bets on established players that are expected to make it big, suggests new analysis.

16 September 2021

News/sustainable

Hedera Hashgraph beats DLT competitors on energy consumption

A research report by University College London (UCL) has examined the varying environmental impacts of six different distributed ledger technologies (DLT), finding that Hedera Hashgraph boasts the lowest overall energy consumption of the group.

08 September 2021

News/sustainable

ING reveals $12.4 trillion required to green Asia's transport sector

Powering a new generation of net-zero transport with clean energy – in China, Japan, and South Korea – will cost US$12.4 trillion, a ING bank report has just revealed. This equates to over 90% of China’s 2020 GDP.

08 September 2021

Research/Research/analysis

Competitive Advantage through Cloud Connectivity

06 September 2021 173 downloads