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Around a quarter of European financial sector companies saw their revenue hit and product development delayed thanks to data loss and systems downtime last year, according to a survey for EMC.
24 November 2011
Only a third of Canadian smart phone owners have tried mobile banking but this is expected to rise to half within the next two years, according to a survey from ING Direct.
16 November 2011
Companies, including banks, rushing to create Twitter feeds and Facebook and Google+ pages, have been warned that the majority of people have no interest in 'engaging' with 'brands' via social media.
10 November 2011
Far more Brits go online to bank than use social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook, according to a survey for Nationwide Building Society.
11 October 2011
Mobile banking is no longer just a 'nice-to-have' channel for financial services firms, it has become a 'must-have', used by nearly a third of Americans, according to Javelin Strategy & Research.
05 October 2011
The global regulatory push to centrally clear over-the-counter derivatives has started a "technological revolution" that provides a big opportunity for vendors, according to a report from Tabb Group.
29 September 2011
Globally, mobile payments will represent 15% of all cards transactions by 2013, and will overcome plastic volumes within 10 years if growth continues at the same rate, claims the World Payments Report from RBS, Capgemini and Efma.
14 September 2011
Following the economic crisis, small and medium-sized American businesses are putting less faith in Internet banking, instead opting for the 'human touch', according to research from Greenwich Associates.
12 September 2011
More than two thirds of institutional traders around the world are concerned about the impact of high-frequency trading (HFT) on the equities market, according to a survey from Liquidnet.
Nationwide offers the UK's most secure online banking experience and Norwich & Peterborough Building Society the least, according to Which?
26 August 2011
Brits are increasingly open to using their mobile phones for banking, with iPhone owners the keenest to manage money through their handsets, according to a survey for Intelligent Environments.
22 August 2011
Data management issues continue to impede the efforts of financial institutions to develop effective strategies for dealing with liquidity risk, according to a survey from Swift.
19 August 2011
The Irish are moving away from cash towards electronic payment methods such as card and online transactions but still lag behind their European counterparts, according to the Irish Payment Services Organisation (Ipso).
16 August 2011
Over 141 million people around the world will use their mobile phones to make payments this year, up 38% on 2010, yet the market is actually growing slower than expected, according to a report from Gartner.
22 July 2011
Despite soaring growth in the popularity of smartphones, mobile banking uptake has stalled in the US, with security concerns continuing to put people off, according to Javelin Strategy & Research.
Mobile financial services have the potential to reduce the number of unbanked people in developing countries by up to a fifth and increase GDP by five per cent within ten years, according to a study commissioned by telco Telenor.
28 June 2011
There was a sharp fall in UK spending on credit cards last year as cautious customers turned to debit cards and cash, according to figures from the British Retail Consortium (BRC).
27 June 2011
Americans are beginning to use social media to connect with their credit card issuers, according to a survey from Synergistics which shows a quarter of respondents have become a fan, friend or follower of their provider.
23 June 2011
Finextra TV/Research/analysis
RBS unveils its latest Marketplace app for RIM's Blackberry Playbook in London. Order book and trading functionality is "being discussed".
07 June 2011
The vast majority of CIOs at UK financial services firms think that cloud technology has been over-hyped and it poses the same challenges as any other big IT transition, according to a SunGard-sponsored survey.
27 May 2011
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