Tagged: Research Study

November 13, 2022 @ 5:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech Connect 2022, Europe’s Fintech event for the entire ecosystem, recently released its 2022 Industry Benchmark Report, Fintech in Flux: Thriving in the Age of Uncertainty, showing that customers “remain the biggest focus, with 86 per cent of respondents investing in AI to stay competitive.”… Read More

November 13, 2022 @ 4:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hilary Wiek, CFA, CAIA Lead Analyst, Fund Strategies & Sustainable Investing at Pitchbook, notes that through the first quarter of 2022, one-year private fund performance was still “at historically high levels, as more muted performance in Q1 2022 was still overcome by three quarters of… Read More

November 10, 2022 @ 7:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Research from Trulioo, a key player focused on global identity verification, shows consumers consider identity verification vital and “reassuring during onboarding and throughout their relationship with crypto exchanges.” The research, highlighted in the “Crypto customers call for reassurance in uncertain times” report, reveals that 70%… Read More

November 8, 2022 @ 1:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The cyber risk landscape is “rapidly evolving,” with cyberattacks increasing in severity and sophistication. Hackers now “use triple extortion techniques and ransomware-as-a-service has lowered entry barriers for cybercriminals.” In addition, increased digitalization of critical infrastructure has made it “more vulnerable to cyber threats – with… Read More

October 29, 2022 @ 2:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pi, a fraud risk management (FRM) platform founded by Paytm Labs designed to address high-volume applications for fintechs using machine learning (ML), has published a new report on “the impact of fraud on consumer confidence.” The research report, titled “Fraud vs. Friction: How the need… Read More

October 22, 2022 @ 6:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

FT Partners Research recently announced the publication of their Q3 2022 Crypto & Capital Markets Tech Insights report, providing the review of global deal activity for the Crypto & Blockchain and Wealth & Capital Markets Tech sectors “with analysis across private company financings, IPOs, and… Read More

October 17, 2022 @ 10:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Financial institutions are spending millions of dollars every year inefficiently onboarding and maintaining clients, according to research from Fenergo, the provider of Know Your Customer (KYC) and Client Lifecycle Management (CLM) software solutions for financial institutions. A global study of over 1,000 C-level executives across… Read More

October 4, 2022 @ 8:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

  Finastra revealed a sneak peek at its annual State of the Nation Financial Services research. Results point to the significant progress the industry “has made around open finance and collaboration, despite the challenging market conditions of the last few years.” The research takes in… Read More

September 25, 2022 @ 5:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MineralTree, a Global Payments (NYSE: GPN) company and Accounts Payable (AP) and payment automation solution provider, recently released its seventh annual State of AP report. For the first time ever, MineralTree expanded its research “to include suppliers, reflecting the growing importance of vendor relationships to… Read More

September 20, 2022 @ 9:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Taiwanese card payments market will “grow by 6.2% in 2022 to reach TWD3.5 trillion ($127.5 billion), as the country’s economy gradually recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic,” forecasts GlobalData, a data and analytics company. According to GlobalData’s Payment Cards Analytics, the value of card payments… Read More

September 19, 2022 @ 8:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainalysis has shared their 2022 Global Crypto Adoption Index Report. For the third consecutive year, Chainalysis ranked all countries “by grassroots cryptocurrency adoption. While commenting on what is grassroots adoption of cryptocurrency, Chainalysis explained that they could easily rank countries by “raw” cryptocurrency transaction volume,… Read More

September 17, 2022 @ 4:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The UK happens to be the “top” European market and is also one of the key global markets for venture capital (VC) funding, according to an update from GlobalData. However, it has been “experiencing a subdued funding activity in the recent months with monthly VC… Read More

September 15, 2022 @ 8:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

For businesses operating in different jurisdictions, the cost and delays associated with FX and cross-border payments “remain a major pain point,” according to an update from Banking Circle. Banking Circle‘s study into SME attitudes to banking services “revealed that 42% of respondents thought their bank’s… Read More

September 8, 2022 @ 1:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CryptoKitties was arguably the first project to bring NFTs into the mainstream, the team at Juniper Research noted in a comprehensive report. Launched in 2017, CryptoKitties featured an on-chain game “enabling users to breed digital cats together to produce new cats of differing rarity and… Read More

September 8, 2022 @ 7:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Venture capital (VC) funding slid more deeply in AI & ML than in software overall in Q2, “falling 27.8% quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) compared to 21.6% for IT more generally.” according to an update from Pitchbook. Both deal value and deal count “fell to their lowest levels… Read More

August 30, 2022 @ 6:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Emerging Tech Indicator (ETI), released by Pitchbook, provides a quarterly review of seed- and early-stage investment activity “involving a limited subset of the world’s most successful venture capital (VC) firms.” The analysis provides “a unique perspective into the types of technologies top investors view… Read More

August 30, 2022 @ 2:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital identity is a constantly evolving concept and one that is “increasingly entwined with allied areas such as security, privacy, and management of identity-related data,” according to an update from Juniper Research. Usually issued and/or regulated by national identity schemes, a digital identity can “serve… Read More

August 25, 2022 @ 10:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Research released by specialized payments platform Paysafe (NYSE: PSFE) reveals how retailers “may be missing out by not accepting payments in crypto.” A significant 80% of crypto owners “want to pay for goods with their crypto balances but are held back by a lack of… Read More

July 12, 2022 @ 11:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

More than 90% of UK consumers with a retirement saving pot have said they would “consider using a digital dashboard to get a consolidated view of their total pensions, savings and investments.” This, according to a report by TISA (The Investing and Saving Alliance) and… Read More

July 11, 2022 @ 5:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  Business sentiment towards cryptocurrencies as a “theme” declined by 8% in Q2 2022 verses Q1 2022, according to the Company Filings Analytics Database by GlobalData. The data and analytics company notes that crypto’s sentiments “have been on the downtrend since Q4 2021.” As part… Read More