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With Brits increasingly turning to cards, cash could be obsolete by 2030, according to 52% of users of discount Web site MyVoucherCodes.
09 July 2010
With IT budgets in the asset management industry beginning to stabilise, firms are turning their attentions to improving middle office processes, focusing particularly on client reporting, according to a survey from vendor Religare Technova.
Spending on IT by UK financial services firms is set to remain flat over the next year, while employment in the sector could be set for a modest rise, according to a survey from the CBI and PwC which also reveals industry growth in the last quarter has been lower than expected.
28 June 2010
Over 90% of Wall Street firms expect to increase spending on analytics over the next year, with risk and compliance the areas most likely to see greater investment, according to a survey from IBM and Sifma.
24 June 2010
Most financial services firms are failing to invest in new technologies this year, instead focusing on IT essentials such as compliance and security, according to a survey from LogLogic.
18 June 2010
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), Swift and XBRL US have published a business case in favour of automating corporate actions messages.
17 June 2010
The Co-operative Bank has topped a review of how well UK retail financial services Web sites sell services and products, with Yorkshire Bank bottom of the pile.
Despite the global economic downturn over the last two years, most financial institutions increased their information security budget in 2010 as they faced up to new, often internal, threats, according to a global survey from Deloitte.
09 June 2010
Customer satisfaction with Internet banking in the US has slipped over the last year but the channel is still more highly rated than offline alternatives, according to two separate reports.
13 May 2010
Many of the flaws in risk management at banks and insurers that precipitated the global financial crisis remain unaddressed even as new dangers have emerged, according to research from the Economist Intelligence Unit.
04 May 2010
Executing a UK equity trade on the London Stock Exchange is significantly more expensive than on Chi-X or Bats Europe, with over 80% of the cost coming from trading fees, according to research commissioned by Euroclear.
Over three quarters of UK IT professionals working in financial services plan to look for a new job over the next year, according to a survey from recruitment outfit Hays.
30 April 2010
Around one in 10 Brits write down their card PIN or share it with someone, increasing the risk of fraud, according to a survey from Which?
29 April 2010
Insider trading is a systemic risk that is largely immune to regulation and instead needs to be tackled culturally and technologically, according to a survey of UK market players by MPI Europe.
28 April 2010
European BlackBerry and iPhone users are nearly three times more likely to use mobile banking services than the owners of other handsets, according to research from Forrester.
27 April 2010
Nearly half of Americans that bank online are interested in using electronic person-to-person payments, according to research sponsored by Fis, PayPal and Nacha.
26 April 2010
The majority of compliance and payments industry executives believe the new Swift cover payments rule MT202 COV has raised the standard of sanctions compliance but many also credit it with increased workloads and costs, according to surveys from Dow Jones.
22 April 2010
The slew of new technologically savvy outfits hoping to break into the British banking market face a daunting task, with the six big lenders actually emerging from the credit crunch stronger than ever, according to the banks team at Citi.
21 April 2010
Mobile banking take-up in India is set to soar over the next two years thanks to relaxed regulations and improved technology but providers need to ensure they tailor their offerings to the different needs of urban and rural customers, according to research from Celent.
16 April 2010
Just a quarter of US community banks currently offer mobile services but this is set to increase sharply over the next 18 months, according to a survey from Banc Investment Group.
15 April 2010
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