Analysis

Informa Telecoms & Media has released its annual Mobile Market Status report for 2007, which includes detailed insight from Informa's principal analysts on the future of the mobile market and a barometer of industry...

First Annapolis recently completed a survey of 18 leading European PSPs and acquirers on the topic of omni-channel payments capabilities and proposition development. The research confirmed that omni-channel capabilities continue to be a high priority...

From 2012 to 2015, credit and debit (including prepaid and non-prepaid) card payments continued to gain ground in the US payments landscape, accounting for more than two-thirds of all core non-cash payments in the...

The sprawling mobile devices marketplace has spawned an industrialized mobile financial fraud plexus that today drives increasingly sophisticated criminal technical innovation to exploit the mobile devices explosion. And it is funded by increasing revenues...

Cyber attacks are increasing in number and sophistication. ‘Transfer’ is one of the four ‘Ts’ of risk management, alongside terminate, tolerate and treat. We examine the growing market for cyber insurance, and the extent...

According to a new report, the FinTech (financial technology) sector is rising globally, and has already arrived in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). In fact, the number of startups offering financial services...

The Japanese smart card market has achieved a highly developed stage, recording a growth rate of 30.5% in 2006, largely contributed by the implementation of various contactless programs in transit and payment applications. Constant efforts...

The number of mobile banking users is set to almost double from 17.8 million to 32.6 million by 2020, whilst the number of UK adults using online banking will increase from 27.7 million to...

Banks have been under pressure for some time. This pressure has come from regulators, from customers and from new competition and there is no one front on which banks can focus to combat this. In...

For years FinTech has been the hottest topic of discussion in financial services, with incumbents, regulators, and consumers all asking the same question: “Will small technology-enabled ‘FinTech’ start-ups redefine the way that banks and...