Tagged: research

December 3, 2025 @ 4:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) released survey data, revealing AI’s influence and overall impact in commerce / shopping and spending, a generational shift in consumer spending behavior, and emerging payments trends this festive season. Bruce Cundiff, vice president, Consumer Insights at Visa said: “The data tells… Read More

December 3, 2025 @ 12:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Feedzai, the AI-native RiskOps platform for financial crime prevention, released “The AI Advantage: Fraud Fighters’ New Career Guide,” a new research report showing that financial services employees who embrace AI are outperforming their peers “across every measure of career success — from compensation to promotions… Read More

December 2, 2025 @ 2:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The ECB noted that financial stability vulnerabilities still remain fairly elevated given uncertainty over current geo-economic trends and the anticipated tariffs impact. Moreover, the central bank said that the currently stretched valuations in increasingly concentrated asset markets raise risk of sharp price adjustments. The ECB… Read More

December 2, 2025 @ 2:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Juniper Research has released a whitepaper, entitled, Beyond Chargebacks: The True Cost of Fraud for Digital Commerce, which examines the current state of the eCommerce fraud prevention market; considering “the impact of evolving digital fraud strategies, including trends like identity theft, account takeovers, chargebacks, policy… Read More

December 2, 2025 @ 8:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Central Bank of Ireland has released consumer research and analysis of retail investment in Ireland. Comparing data on the financial assets of Irish households against various other European Union countries, Ireland has among the “lowest levels of direct participation” in capital markets via listed… Read More

December 2, 2025 @ 2:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PitchBook noted that Q3 valuations step down but valuations for growth stage companies, deal sizes, and exits see respite. The research report from PitchBook also mentioned that European venture valuations remained fairly elevated in Q3 2025, however, some signs of moderation appear to be emerging…. Read More

December 1, 2025 @ 10:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Singapore’s card payments market is expected to grow steadily by 6.2% in 2025, reaching appr. SGD158.2 billion (about $119.6 billion), supported by near-universal bank access, “extensive” merchant acceptance, and increasing use of contactless cards, according to GlobalData, a data and analytics company. GlobalData’s Payment Cards… Read More

December 1, 2025 @ 9:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Small and mid-sized business owners operating across the US are now said to be cautiously optimistic about the coming year, with the majority or 74% expecting revenue increases and around 60% planning to expand their businesses, according to the latest Bank of America (NYSE: BAC)… Read More

December 1, 2025 @ 2:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CoinGecko noted that the decentralized crypto exchange or DEX to centralized exchange or CEX spot ratio has more than tripled in the last five years, with DEX spot trading volumes starting “out at just 6.0% of CEX spot volumes in Jan 2021 and growing to… Read More

December 1, 2025 @ 9:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK Finance noted that gross buy-to-let lending totaled £37.3 billion over the past calendar year — which is considered to be a sign of resilience in a market navigating increasing economic volatility as well as significant regulatory changes. UK Finance has also mentioned in a… Read More

December 1, 2025 @ 9:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As this year finally draws to a close, the European Union is said to be entering a somewhat decisive phase in its effort to harmonize digital asset regulation under the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework. This, according to an update from Hacken which also noted… Read More

November 30, 2025 @ 6:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Compass Mining noted in a recent update that China currently holds an estimated 14% share of the global Bitcoin mining market. This, according to Hashrate Index, which reportedly makes it the world’s third-largest contributor to the overall global hashrate. Compass Mining also mentioned in their… Read More

November 30, 2025 @ 4:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coin Metrics has shared key insights on recent significant developments in the Bitcoin (BTC) and crypto space. The researchers from Coin Metrics have shared several important notes on major crypto events and what to anticipate as we close out this current year and head into… Read More

November 30, 2025 @ 3:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The South Korean card payments market is now expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.7% over 2025-29 to reach KRW1,510.2 trillion ($1.1 trillion) by the year 2029, supported and enabled by high card penetration, steady payment infrastructure, and government backing… Read More

November 30, 2025 @ 1:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PitchBook noted in its latest global private market fundraising report that dry powder on the rise despite a fairly tough fundraising environment. PitchBook also mentioned in the extensive research report that even though fundraising was a bit slow so far this year, private markets remain… Read More

November 30, 2025 @ 1:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Dr. Sean Dawson, head of research at onchain options platform, Derive.xyz (TVL $115.8M, $18.6B trade volume), has shared a Bitcoin and cryptocurrency market update. Dr. Sean Dawson of Derive.xyz noted that Bitcoin (BTC) volume dropped 25% as the market seemingly reversed its panic selling. They… Read More

November 29, 2025 @ 2:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK business confidence softens but still reportedly remains above long-term average. This, according to the latest update from the Lloyds Banking Group. As mentioned in a report from UK‘s Lloyds Bank, the overall business confidence fell a number of points to just over 40% in… Read More

November 28, 2025 @ 5:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

By the end of H1 2025, very little around AI investment had been seen in public bond markets, with the sector’s “hyperscalers” said to be generating a considerable level of cash flow and leveraging private equity, private credit and other sources to “fund their capital… Read More

November 27, 2025 @ 1:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sumsub released its latest Identity Fraud Report, analyzing verification checks and fraud attempts between 2024–2025. The study blends global and regional dynamics from internal data with findings from Sumsub’s Fraud Exposure Survey 2025, featuring responses from “300+ risk professionals and 1,200+ end users.” In 2024,… Read More

November 27, 2025 @ 12:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Xero, the global small business platform, has found that shifting only 10% of spending from bigger to smaller businesses could potentially mean $11 billion more in the hands of small businesses. Xero economists have analyzed 2024 New Zealand household consumption data and “excluded spending unlikely… Read More