Tagged: Research Report

March 24, 2023 @ 5:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The economy took a wild ride in 2022, and with interest rates continuing to rise, inflation expected to remain relatively high and household savings dwindling, 2023 could be “just as challenging,” according to an update from TrueAccord. As consumers battle high inflation and interest rates… Read More

March 24, 2023 @ 10:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

High interest rates, persistent inflation, and the denominator effect hit private real estate hard in 2022. This, as private real estate funds “raised $128.6 billion across 267 vehicles, down 28.4% from the $179.6 billion raised by 549 funds in 2021,” according to an update by… Read More

March 24, 2023 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Exit scams, popularly referred to as rug pulls, are “an ongoing criminal scheme in Web3,” according to an update shared by CertiK. CertiK writes in a blog post that a rug pull “involves fraudsters robbing a crypto project by liquidating their holdings without warning and… Read More

March 24, 2023 @ 7:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

With signs that strikes may be abating for the time being, new data from small business lender iwoca reveals that UK SMEs have “lost out on 680,000 days of trading per month, due to industrial action.” Cumulatively, this amounts “to four million days of trading… Read More

March 20, 2023 @ 9:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sopra Banking Software (SBS), the global fintech company creating a new breed of banks to power financial services in every industry, announced the consumer-focused findings of its second annual Digital Banking Experience (DBX) Report. This year’s report, “produced in partnership with Forrester and IPSOS, reveals… Read More

March 20, 2023 @ 8:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) usage continues to grow, but “not all these payment plans are experiencing the same level of customer engagement,” according to an update shared with CI. By the end of 2021, shoppers had “spent more than $20 billion using BNPL, and,… Read More

March 19, 2023 @ 2:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Juniper Research specializes in identifying and appraising new high-growth market sectors within the digital ecosystem. They provide market research covering 90 technology markets. Their research reports form the basis on which their analysts make various predictions. As noted in an update shared by Juniper Research,… Read More

March 13, 2023 @ 9:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SpotOn, the software and payments partner for restaurants, is providing restaurants with actionable next steps based on the National Restaurant Association’s annual State of the Restaurant Industry Report. As noted in the update, SpotOn has “outlined opportunities for restaurant operators to cut costs, carve out… Read More

March 6, 2023 @ 9:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Retirable, the “holistic” retirement solution, announced the release of its first ‘State of Retirement’ study, which sums up how more than 2,000 U.S. individuals nearing and in retirement plan “to spend their time, money, and resources.” Known for its holistic approach to retirement alongside the… Read More

March 6, 2023 @ 6:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Six in ten (63%) UK accounting and finance professionals are “concerned over the accuracy of their company’s monthly financial statements,” according to new research published by FloQast, a provider of accounting workflow automation. Accounting and finance teams are feeling “the pressure of the recessionary environment,… Read More

March 3, 2023 @ 10:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Startups in 2023 are facing compensation markets “unlike any in recent memory,” according to an update from Carta. Layoffs have “afflicted large, public tech companies as well as companies across the VC ecosystem.” In the private markets, declining valuations and increasing intervals between funding rounds… Read More

February 28, 2023 @ 8:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital identity is not the easiest concept to define, according to an update from Juniper Research. It overlaps with other, similar, areas.  The crossover with areas “such as security, privacy and data management can be significant, and in some cases, they are indistinct.” As noted… Read More

February 28, 2023 @ 2:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

When the Tide Goes Out, could have long-term implications for private markets, according to a recent update from Pitchbook. A report from Pitchbook notes that asset growth from fund performance and future fundraising are the two most important variables in their estimates, and they are… Read More

February 26, 2023 @ 4:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Deel Lab, the HR company’s research and policy consortium, published its State of Global Hiring Report. Findings from 260k+ worker contracts across 160 countries “show that from January through December 2022, global hiring grew across all regions, although some regions saw a higher rate of… Read More

February 24, 2023 @ 7:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Following its recent analysis of online fraud trends in 2023, SEON has delved deeper into the specific risks “facing iGaming operators around the world.” Leveraging millions of data points from across its platform, the company has created a new report, which “highlights the persistent nature… Read More

February 22, 2023 @ 10:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Crypto Incident Response Center (CIRC) of Uppsala Security, a South Korean blockchain virtual asset regulatory technology (RegTech) specialist, has recently released its 2022 CIRC Statistical Report. The report is “based on submissions received directly from victims of virtual asset crimes in South Korea, offering… Read More

February 22, 2023 @ 8:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) published a report on the financial stability risks of Decentralised Finance (DeFi). DeFi is commonly “used to describe services in crypto-asset markets that aim to replicate some functions of the traditional financial system in a supposedly decentralized manner – though… Read More

February 21, 2023 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

New data from Barclays, which sees nearly half of the nation’s debit and credit card spending, reveals that “a record 91.2 per cent of all eligible card transactions were made using contactless payments last year – a sign that consumers and businesses are continuing to… Read More

February 21, 2023 @ 9:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Smart, the London-headquartered fintech disrupting the global retirement savings market, has published its annual Future of Global Retirement report. This year’s report “looks at how knowledge, attitudes and concerns about retirement savings have progressed.” The report “includes findings from more than 8,000 savers across the… Read More

February 20, 2023 @ 10:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pump and dump schemes in traditional finance are quite simple: Holders of a tradable asset, such as stock in a company, will “heavily hype and promote the asset to other investors, often using misleading statements, causing the price to rise rapidly as new investors buy,”… Read More