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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
The global core banking market was worth around $4.8 billion last year and is expected to grow to $5.1 billion by the end of 2013, according to research house Celent.
10 April 2012
Nearly six in ten Internet users around the world manage their finances online, according to a poll from Ipsos.
05 April 2012
UK financial services firms increased IT spending in the first quarter of 2012, a trend they plan to continue over the next year, buoyed by signs of spring-time economic green shoots, according to a CBI/PwC survey.
02 April 2012
Canada's government must work with the private sector to develop a mobile money ecosystem as part of a wider overhaul of the country's payments infrastructure that could save C$32 billion a year in productivity gains, claims a task force report commissioned by finance minister Jim Flaherty.
29 March 2012
Private banks have amateurish social media strategies, often failing to establish anything more than a token presence on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, according to research from investment portal assetinum.
27 March 2012
Cybercrime is a growing threat to financial services firms and is now the second most common type of economic crime the industry faces, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers survey.
Researchers have outperformed the Dow Jones Industrial Average with a trading model built on data culled from Twitter.
23 March 2012
Britons sent two-thirds more money through Faster Payments in the last three months of 2011 than in the fourth quarter of 2010, as the much maligned service took root.
19 March 2012
Financial industry association Isitc says that nearly two thirds of its members plan to increase their information technology spending over the next two years as regulatory compliance continues to dominate the agenda.
12 March 2012
Technology giants such as Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon are well positioned to cash in on the upcoming mobile payments bonanza thanks to their reputation for innovation but still have trust and privacy-related hurdles to overcome if they are to convince Americans to pick them over more traditional financial services providers, according to a report from Javelin Strategy & Research.
09 March 2012
Only one traditional financial services player has made it into the UK's top four rated credit card brands, with retailers dominating a list from Auriemma Consulting Group (ACG).
13 February 2012
A Piigs exit from the single currency would bring a 40% drop in euro yield curve and 20% fall in euro equities, according to modelling from SunGard's APT risk system.
03 February 2012
Mobile banking adoption grew steadily in the US last year, with 16% of cell phone owners using their handset to access financial information in the second quarter, according to figures from comScore.
Commerzbank has embarked on a project with consultancy Capco to develop an 'IT complexity model' that can be used by CIOs to measure and then master their organisation's technology.
24 January 2012
Bank IT spending in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific will hit US$173.3 billion this year, a modest 2.8% rise on 2011, according to research house Celent.
23 January 2012
By 2015 more people will interact with their banks digitally than through branches, and they'll be prepared to pay for the privilege, according to a global survey from PricewaterhouseCoopers.
16 January 2012
Despite ongoing economic turmoil, global spending on retail banking technology will increase by $3.6 billion - 3.2% - in 2012, and will hit $135 billion over the next five years, according to analyst house Ovum.
13 January 2012
Nearly three quarters of British contactless users think that the technology will eventually become more commonplace than cash and 84% see cards as just a stepping stone to mobile NFC payments, according to a survey from Visa Europe.
21 December 2011
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