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Europe's financial institutions have been told by regulators that they must protect their IT budgets in order to guard against the growing threat of cyber attacks.
03 April 2014
The UK is in the midst of a technology-led banking revolution as Brits shun branches in favour of their mobile phones, figures from the British Bankers Association show.
31 March 2014
IT looks set to be the top capital spending priority for the UK financial services industry over the next 12 months, according to a CBI/PwC survey.
The UK and Ireland has emerged as the world's fastest growing region for financial technology investment over the last five years as London establishes itself as the fintech capital of Europe.
26 March 2014
2018, a decade after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, could prove the end of the financial markets technology credit crunch, with spending breaking the $100 billion barrier, claims analyst house Ovum.
19 March 2014
Far from taking off as a new currency, the true value of Bitcoin lies in its potential to transform existing payments networks, say Goldman Sachs analysts in a comprehensive report into the budding crypto-currency.
13 March 2014
Nearly three quarters of America's millennials would rather go to the dentist than listen to what their banks have to say and are more interested in hearing from tech firms about financial services.
12 March 2014
Only a quarter of people in the US and Western Europe are willing to use their mobile devices for in-store payments, according to a survey from Bain & Company.
11 March 2014
Financial services firms are far more likely to fall victim to cybercrime than their counterparts in other industries, according to a survey from PwC.
05 March 2014
Nearly two thirds of European and North American banking and capital markets firms expect to significantly increase their spending on compliance risk management over the next couple of years, according to research from Accenture.
03 March 2014
More than 60 million people around the world carried out mobile money transactions last June, according to figures from the GSMA, with sub-Saharan Africa leading the charge.
25 February 2014
Card fraud in the Single euro payments area (Sepa) increased in 2012 for the first time in four years, hitting EUR1.33 billion, European Central Bank figures show.
Electronic trading systems only managed to slightly increase their share of global fixed-income trading volume in 2013, accounting for a quarter of total volume executed, according to a report from Greenwich Associates.
20 February 2014
Total bank IT spending across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific will grow to $188 billion in 2014, an increase of approximately 4.4% over 2013, according to analyst house Celent.
11 February 2014
Bank boardroom focus on money laundering is at an all-time high, yet a third of executives think that their transaction monitoring systems are neither efficient nor effective, according to a survey from KPMG.
29 January 2014
With regulatory changes sparking a surge in demand for collateral, current operational processes and system infrastructures looks set to be overwhelmed, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has warned.
22 January 2014
Many of the world's biggest banks have serious security flaws in their mobile apps which could leave customers - and the banks themselves - vulnerable to attackers, research from IOActive suggests.
13 January 2014
A quarter of Brits would seriously consider switching their bank if it suffered a major technology failure, such as a problem with ATMs, according to a survey from Fujitsu published just two days after the RBS meltdown.
04 December 2013
Up to a third of banks' market share in America could be up for grabs by 2020, with new digital-only players and retailer-run enterprises taking on the old guard, according to research from Accenture.
12 November 2013
As European law-makers close in on a deal to tighten rules on high-frequency trading, a new paper from the ECB warns that curbing the practice could make markets less efficient.
06 November 2013
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