Tagged: research

May 6, 2024 @ 7:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Poor investment governance could cost asset owners, and in turn their customers, significant sums – in the case of a super fund member as much as $500,000 over their working lives, a new report by KPMG Australia and Frontier Advisors finds. A survey of institutional… Read More

May 6, 2024 @ 11:17 am By JD Alois  |  

A legal consultancy has published a report on the regulatory environment for Fintechs in the MENA region. While digital finance is the future of all financial services, the emergence and regulation of various services have differed worldwide.  KARM Legal Consultants has crafted a “Fintech Legal… Read More

May 6, 2024 @ 10:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The majority (85%) of consumers know what they need to do to be more energy efficient and the same proportion (84%) believe they are making efforts to achieve this, according to EcoSaver research commissioned by Bank of Ireland with Red C. While the vast majority… Read More

May 6, 2024 @ 9:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Bitcoin (BTC) ecosystem recently observed a monumental event in its 15-year history with the eagerly anticipated fourth halving, signaling “a significant shift in the blockchain landscape,” the Compass Mining team noted in their latest analysis. Halvings, occurring roughly every four years, “drastically reduce the… Read More

May 6, 2024 @ 7:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Recently, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) implemented substantial adjustments to its collateral consideration for bitcoin (or any other cryptocurrency) ETFs, the NYDIG team noted. After the changes, no collateral value “will be given to any bitcoin ETF, giving them a 100% haircut.” The… Read More

May 5, 2024 @ 11:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PitchBook has released their latest retail Fintech ecosystem report. PitchBook has commented on their Total deal value: They claim to  have reportedly “recorded $3.2 billion in enterprise fintech VC deal value in Q1 2024, denoting decreases of 36.0% QoQ and 72.9% YoY.” VC deal value… Read More

May 5, 2024 @ 10:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Centralized exchanges (CEX’s) serve as a crucial intermediary between crypto market participants and blockchain networks, “facilitating billions of dollars of value transferred each day,” the Coin Metrics team noted. Many user’s first interaction with crypto is “likely to occur through an exchange.” However, exchanges vary… Read More

May 5, 2024 @ 8:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The CoinGecko team has recently examined NFT or non-fungible token lending volumes which have reportedly surpassed $2.1B in Q1, led by Blend. The CoinGecko has examined what they consider to be the top NFT lending platforms. According to the research report, Blend is said to… Read More

May 4, 2024 @ 2:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CBInsights says that they mined earnings calls, analyzed business relationships, and dug into investments and acquisitions in order to survey the AI [artificial intelligence] activities of some of the world’s largest companies across industries. For many of the world’s largest companies, AI simply can’t be… Read More

May 4, 2024 @ 9:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A majority of small and mid-sized business owners expect their revenues to increase this year, and their worries over a recession have declined substantially, according to the 2024 Bank of America Business Owner Report, conducted in partnership with Bank of America Institute (NYSE: BAC). While… Read More

May 2, 2024 @ 3:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at CoinGecko has examined the market share of blockchains in terms of their trading volume in a new report. CoinGecko has shared insights on which blockchain has the most trading volume in an extensive research study. As stated in the research report, Ethereum… Read More

May 1, 2024 @ 10:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Lloyds Bank’s latest Business Barometer has found that overall business confidence is unchanged in April – staying at 42%. The result means the overall confidence figure “remains at an elevated level compared to the Barometer’s long-term average (28%), with only January 2024 seeing businesses report… Read More

May 1, 2024 @ 4:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission, Office of the Advocate for  Small Business Capital Formation, has posted a report on minotry and women activity in the Reg CF securities crowdfunding sector. Reg CF is one of the exemptions that enables online capital formation as well as… Read More

May 1, 2024 @ 3:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) announced the release of its latest technology pulse poll, which examines the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the future of work — from integration to talent and culture. The poll, which was conducted in March 2024 and “surveyed… Read More

April 30, 2024 @ 6:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The majority of Australia’s mid-market businesses are still feeling cautiously optimistic, the annual KPMG Enterprise pre-Budget survey finds. But nearly a quarter say business growth is “being significantly impacted by the cost of living, while cost and margin pressures are the top concern of mid-market… Read More

April 30, 2024 @ 1:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Compliance teams are facing escalating pressures driven by greater regulatory scrutiny and macroeconomic challenges, according to the 2024 Annual Compliance Health Check Report from SteelEye, the firm behind the industry’s integrated surveillance solution. The survey found that 56% of firms are “investing in communications surveillance,… Read More

April 30, 2024 @ 10:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK small business hiring continued to show signs of recovery in the face of a challenging macroeconomic environment, with employment rising 1.4% year-on-year (y/y) in the first quarter of the year (January-March 2024). According to the latest Xero Small Business Insights (XSBI) data from global… Read More

April 29, 2024 @ 11:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital Asset has released a report highlighting developments related to the tokenization and on-chain adoption of Real-World Assets (RWAs). The report from Digital Asset Research “includes details on centralized industry players and asset class coverage, as well as coverage of select decentralized finance protocols working… Read More

April 29, 2024 @ 10:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A collective sense of measured “optimism” developed throughout Q1 2024, as the S&P 500 recorded its best-performing first quarter since 2019, the FT Partners team noted in a research report covering Fintech ecosystem developments. The Fintech focused research report from FT Partners pointed out that… Read More

April 29, 2024 @ 5:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Carta has released its latest report, titled, State of Pre-Seed: Q1 2024. Carta notes in the research report that fundraising for pre-seed companies “stayed robust in Q1 2024, dominated by SAFEs and convertible notes; valuation caps remained flat.” While commenting on the actual definition/criteria for… Read More