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Global spending on retail banking technology is set to jump by nearly a quarter over the next five years, hitting $132 billion, according to analyst house Ovum.
12 January 2011
Following a rocky couple of years, North American bank IT spending is recovering, with a four per cent rise this year to $53.4 billion, according to research house Celent.
10 January 2011
Financial services firms around the world have made significant progress in developing risk appetite frameworks with many embarking on multi-year IT infrastructure projects but significant work lies ahead, according to a report from regulators.
05 January 2011
Americans are increasingly turning their backs on cheques in favour of electronic payment methods, particularly debit cards, according to a study from the Federal Reserve.
09 December 2010
As retailers prepare for record online sales in the build up to Christmas, research from Deutsche Bank suggests that levels of e-commerce related fraud attempts fell in 2010.
03 December 2010
Despite stagnant IT budgets, many mid-sized UK financial services firms are still wary of making cloud-related investments, concerned about security and data control, according to research commissioned by SunGard.
02 December 2010
Most US and European financial services firms still consider themselves social media novices or beginners but there is a widespread expectation that there will be significant investment in this new marketing medium over the next five years.
18 November 2010
With mobile person-to-person money transfer services gaining traction, regulators need to act to address associated risks such as money laundering, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
17 November 2010
After a flat 2010, global spending on IT vendors by the financial markets sector will return to growth next year, according to analyst Ovum.
16 November 2010
China will soon be the largest mobile payments market in the world, with 410 million users by 2013, according to research house Celent.
12 November 2010
Worldwide smartphone sales soared 96% in the last year, with the iPhone and Google Android-based handsets both leapfrogging BlackBerry in the popularity stakes, according to Gartner.
11 November 2010
The European Union is backing a new research project bidding to extract relevant financial information from the vast amounts of unstructured data on the World Wide Web.
08 November 2010
With IT accounting for up to two thirds of start up costs, technology is proving a major barrier to new entrants in the UK retail banking sector, according to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).
04 November 2010
Around one in ten Brits has switched banks or retailers over concerns about the way their privacy and identities were protected, according to a survey from Unisys.
29 October 2010
Financial messaging body Swift has pledged to improve the sanctions screening process designed to stop the flow of illegal money transfers by launching an outsourcing service for small banks.
27 October 2010
European financial services firms are not placing enough emphasis on risk management when it comes to decision-making and performance, while IT systems are struggling to cope with increased regulatory demand, according to research commissioned by Oracle.
22 October 2010
Over two thirds - 68% - of corporates would consider switching banks for better customer service around on-boarding, account maintenance and query handling, a 24% rise on the previous year, according to a survey from Finextra Research and Pegasystems.
The European Payments Council (EPC) and global wireless trade group GSMA have published a while paper on mobile contactless payments and the role of 'trusted service managers' (TSMs).
21 October 2010
The number of US subscribers to mobile banking has soared by more than 129% in the past two years to 13 million, according to a survey from Nielsen.
20 October 2010
Over a third of Americans now use online banking tools to manage their finances, according to research from Intuit which also shows that visits to branches are becoming less frequent.
19 October 2010
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