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A new, sophisticated breed of cyber-crooks targeting bank accounts belonging to businesses and high-net worth individuals around the world may have stolen EUR60 million over the last year, according to an investigation from McAfee and Guardian Analytics.
26 June 2012
East African countries should work together on establishing financial and telecommunications regulations that cover the region's hugely popular mobile money schemes, says a United Nations report.
22 June 2012
Customers may be happy to carry out simple banking tasks online and through their mobile phones but when they need personal attention and expertise the old fashioned branch still wins out, according to a survey from Cisco.
21 June 2012
The Indian financial services industry will spend Rs377 billion ($6.77 billion) on IT this year, 17% up on 2011, according to Gartner.
11 June 2012
Paying in-store with cash is more common than a year ago as recession-hit customers try to keep track of their spending, according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC), which is also calling for action to force down interchange fees.
08 June 2012
The number of NFC-ready point-of-sale terminals around the world is set to soar over the next few years, from 3.9 million in 2011 to 43.4 million in 2017, claims Swedish research firm Berg Insight.
07 June 2012
American banks consider technology investment a top spending priority for the year ahead, with platform simplification the most important IT-related project, according to a KPMG survey.
06 June 2012
The worldwide value of mobile payment transactions is set to jump 62%, from $105.9 billion in 2011 to $171.5 billion this year, according to Gartner.
29 May 2012
More than two thirds of UK financial services firms think that the rate of IT change they are facing is too quick to keep up with and half feel their own technology is hindering their attempts to do so, according to Fujitsu.
23 May 2012
Nearly half of Americans would do all of their banking online if they could, according to a survey from interactive agency Rosetta.
22 May 2012
With a deadline for Sepa migration finally confirmed, Europe's banks are now scrambling to develop systems and services that will attract the all-important corporate customers, according to a survey from Finextra and Clear2Pay on the eve of EBAday.
14 May 2012
Around three quarters of European banks are using outdated core systems, affecting their ability to innovate and accelerate growth, according to a survey commissioned by vendor Infosys.
11 May 2012
Americans overwhelming reject mobile payment systems that track their movements or share identification information with retailers, and legislators should considering tweaking credit card laws to address their concerns, say researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.
03 May 2012
Nearly half of corporate customers say that they would be willing to leave their current bank if they believe another offered better payment services, according to a SunGard survey.
02 May 2012
Branches and the Internet still provide customers with a more positive banking experience than mobile phones but the nascent channel is catching up fast, according to a global survey from Capgemini and Efma.
26 April 2012
Finance Watch, a European association lobbying under the banner 'making finance serve society', has called on the EU to crack down on high-frequency trading.
24 April 2012
Around three quarters of the world's poor, living on less than $2 a day, do not have a bank account but mobile phones are helping to change this, according to a report from the World Bank.
20 April 2012
Twitter has overtaken Facebook as the social network most favoured by financial services firms, according to analysis from Corporate Insight, which singles out American Express' use of the channel for special praise.
Almost seven out of 10 North American capital markets executives believe a significant portion of their firms' resources will be consumed by regulatory burdens and data latency issues, according to a Sybase survey.
18 April 2012
US gas retailers are failing to pass on savings from the Durbin interchange fee amendments to customers, effectively pocketing a $1 billion a year subsidy, claims the Electronic Payments Coalition (EPC) pressure group.
17 April 2012
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