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Market participants are not prepared for shorter settlement cycles, despite being strongly in favour of a move to T+2, according to a study from Omgeo.
31 October 2012
Banks need to ditch rigid and reactive applications in favour of flexible and proactive APIs and apps, says research house Gartner.
30 October 2012
Finextra and Misys have announced the results of their annual survey of trends in transaction banking. The responses from 105 professionals in the trade finance, payments and cash management industry located in 40 countries highlighted the stronger strategic focus on customer service and channel and product innovation.
29 October 2012
Elderly and disabled Brits face significant barriers in accessing and using payment systems, often forced to resort to workarounds such as sharing cards and PINs, according to research from the Payments Council.
25 October 2012
Customer data is still a misunderstood and underused asset at European financial institutions, seen by many as a purely compliance issue rather than a potential source of revenues, according to a Finextra survey commissioned by Capco.
24 October 2012
The vast majority of mobile phone owners in developing countries are interested in using their handsets to access financial services, according to a survey from Visa.
23 October 2012
A quarter of people have been hit by card fraud during the past five years, prompting many to ditch their provider, says an ACI Worldwide-commissioned survey covering 17 countries around the world.
16 October 2012
The number of ATMs in India will double over the next four years, to 200,000, as regulatory changes that open the market up to non-banks take effect, according to Celent.
12 October 2012
Half of Britain's financial services firms think that mobile banking is already important to their customers, while 71% predict it will be by 2015, according to a survey from Fujitsu.
10 October 2012
Shortening the time period between trade execution and settling payment for US cash securities transactions could reduce the industry's costs and risk exposure by several hundred million dollars a year, according to a report from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
05 October 2012
Central banks should make sure that postal operators can issue electronic money so that they can offer mobile financial services and help bank the unbanked, according to a report from a United Nations agency.
A quiet revolution is occurring in the methods and composition of the global banking market as tech-savvy lenders in developing countries grab a major share of the pie, according to an Economist Intelligence Unit report.
12 September 2012
Electronic payments have driven almost one quarter - or C$196 billion - of total Canadian GDP growth over the past 25 years, claims a study commissioned by Visa.
More than 90 billion non-cash payments were made in the EU last year, nearly five per cent up on 2010 thanks to rising use of credit and debit cards, according to European Central Bank figures.
10 September 2012
Reloadable pre-paid cards are becoming an increasingly common alternative to current accounts in the US and, as a result, need to be more tightly regulated to protect consumers, warns the Pew Charitable Trusts.
06 September 2012
A UK-government commissioned working paper on the economic impact of MiFID II has hit out at several key computer trading rule proposals, warning that they could damage economic growth.
03 September 2012
With the reputation of high street banks in the gutter, Brits are open to the idea of switching their allegiance to potential rivals, such as John Lewis and Amazon, from outside the industry.
29 August 2012
Tap and go payments technology appears to have successfully established itself in the collective British psyche over the last year, with 84% of people now able to identify the contactless symbol.
23 August 2012
With e-commerce booming, the government and police must take the associated multi-million pound criminal threat more seriously, says the British Retail Consortium (BRC).
22 August 2012
Around three quarters of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the US have fallen victim to online banking fraud and many are ditching their provider as a result, according to research from Guardian Analytics and Ponemon Institute.
06 August 2012
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