Tagged: research

February 20, 2025 @ 8:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Total UK fintech investment has reportedly declined to $9.9 billion in 2024, down a considerable 27% from $13.6 billion in 2023, according to KPMG’s Pulse of Fintech, a comprehensive report on fintech investment trends. KPMG noted in the research report that geopolitical uncertainty, high levels… Read More

February 19, 2025 @ 5:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Daniel Gorfine, Founder & CEO, Gattaca Horizons LLC, is pleased to join J. Christopher Giancarlo and Brian Peters in co-authoring a piece in the Milken Institute Review that makes the case for payments modernization in the U.S. As noted in the paper, over the past… Read More

February 19, 2025 @ 12:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A new research report presents the outcome of a detailed study undertaken by IBM Promontory for the European Commission on embedding supervision in the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem. The project comprised four different phases: identifying use cases and protocols to assess, defining elements of comparison… Read More

February 17, 2025 @ 9:38 am By JD Alois  |  

France Fintech has posted a report on the Fench real estate crowdfunding sector, sharing a significant decline in this sector of online capital formation. According to the research completed in partnership with Forvis Mazars, for the second year in a row real estate crowdfunding has… Read More

February 16, 2025 @ 9:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

AU10TIX, a technology firm that’s focused on supporting identity verification and management, released its latest Report on Global Identity Fraud. Obtaining insights from transactions processed around the globe from Jan to Dec 2024, the report uncovers trends in organized identity fraud. “2024: The Year of… Read More

February 14, 2025 @ 12:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Experian‘s research ‘Proactive Defense: Tackling Evolving Fraud Threats’ conducted by Forrester Consulting, surveyed more than 400 senior fraud professionals and decision makers across different countries, such as India, Norway, Denmark, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and Germany. As mentioned in the update from Experian, a notable… Read More

February 14, 2025 @ 8:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Four of the 12 UK nations and regions recorded business activity growth in January, according to the NatWest Growth Tracker. The NatWest Regional Growth Tracker Business Activity Index is described as the “fact-based indicator of regional economic health, tracking the monthly change in the output… Read More

February 13, 2025 @ 7:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Research from PensionBee reveals that while UK savers are open to AI playing a role in pension customer support, they are not ready for a fully automated experience. PensionBee noted that 79% of survey respondents expressed preferences for “a mix of human and AI interaction… Read More

February 13, 2025 @ 7:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Data shared by Regtech Sumsub shows that three quarters of UK dating app users have come across deepfakes, “19% have personally been deceived by one, and 22% have had someone close to them misled by AI.” Regtech Sumsub pointed out that in the last five… Read More

February 12, 2025 @ 10:01 am By JD Alois  |  

Private credit and non-bank lending have been increasing for years now. A recent report indicates that “dry powder” has reached $159.38 billion in the US – the largest amount ever. Historically, it has been the banks that provided loans for businesses and consumers. Still, the… Read More

February 11, 2025 @ 11:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A recent survey of German companies operating in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) reveals that the region is expected to become increasingly important as a market and investment location. More than half of the companies surveyed (55%) anticipate that the economic relevance of the region… Read More

February 10, 2025 @ 8:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A recent report by CBInsights reveals the shifting landscape of corporate venture capital (CVC), with a strong emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI), early-stage deals, and a decline in investment activity in Asia. CBInsights revealed in the research report that during 2024, global CVC-backed funding rebounded… Read More

February 9, 2025 @ 2:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Juniper Research says that it defines a QR code payment as a form of contactless payment that allows a transfer to be performed by simply scanning a code. The research report from Juniper Research explained that this definition encompasses both merchant-presented mode (MPM) and consumer-presented… Read More

February 8, 2025 @ 8:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A recent collaboration between AdviserSoftware‎‎, part of FTRC, and InterGen Data, an AI-based financial lifetime events prediction service, has shed light on the potential risks associated with using DeepSeek, a popular AI tool. The analysis, conducted by Robert Kirk, founder and CEO of InterGen Data,… Read More

February 8, 2025 @ 8:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A recent analysis by CoinGecko has shed light on the current state of publicly traded blockchain companies. The research report highlights that there are 46 noteworthy companies in this space, with the majority listed on the NASDAQ exchange. Coinbase, the cryptocurrency exchange led by Brian… Read More

February 7, 2025 @ 11:04 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

According to a new J.D. Power report, more small business owners apply surcharges to customer purchases when using debit and credit cards, digital wallets, BNPL and cryptocurrency. The J.D. Power 2025 U.S. Merchant Services Satisfaction Study found that 34% of merchants are adding fees for… Read More

February 7, 2025 @ 6:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital-only financial providers (such as neobanking platforms like Monzo, Starling Bank and Revolut as well as fintechs like Klarna), expanded their overall reach from 16% of adults back in 2018 to a significant 50% in 2024 according to research from RFI Global, the data and… Read More

February 6, 2025 @ 3:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As part of Gemini’s mission to offer “trusted” information to institutional and retail investors, they have released a crypto trends report, “2025 Trends: Data-Driven Insights Into the Crypto Market,” in collaboration with Glassnode, an analytics firm specializing in on-chain assets. Gemini states that the report… Read More

February 6, 2025 @ 3:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kaspersky has discovered a new data-stealing Trojan, SparkCat, active in the Apple App Store and Google Play. This is said to be the “first known instance” of optical recognition-based malware appearing in AppStore. Kaspersky said they found comments in the code written in Chinese, possibly… Read More

February 5, 2025 @ 11:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Data from Experian finds that over 10 million people who hold a credit card with interest may be able to save “£1,391.69 in interest payments” annually by switching their existing balances to a balance transfer card (BT card) with a better deal. Experian’s data reveals… Read More