Tagged: research

November 21, 2023 @ 4:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Juniper Research unveiled recently the 10 trends that are set to radically impact the fintech and payments landscape in 2024, included within its latest whitepaper. The whitepaper found that “the fintech market is undergoing a rapid shift, with the rise of new technologies, such as… Read More

November 21, 2023 @ 9:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Akur8 released a new research paper for the actuarial community entitled “Derivative Lasso: Credibility-Based Signal Fitting for GLMs.” Developed by a team of actuarial scientists at Akur8, including Mattia Casotto, Head of Product for the U.S. and Principal Scientist, and Thomas Holmes, Chief Actuary for… Read More

November 21, 2023 @ 8:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The UK witnessed 898 venture capital (VC) funding deals of worth $8.7 billion during January-August 2023. This represents “a 27.2% drop in the volume compared to the same period in 2022.” Notably, the decline in terms of disclosed deal value “was significantly steeper, registering at… Read More

November 20, 2023 @ 9:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

​Personal remittances from Overseas Filipinos (OFs) in September 2023 have reportedly “reached US$3.23 billion, 2.6 percent higher than the US$3.15 billion recorded in the same month last year.” The growth in personal remittances in September 2023 was driven “by increased remittances from 1) land-based workers… Read More

November 20, 2023 @ 7:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Feedzai, the world’s first RiskOps platform for financial risk management, and Chartis Research, leaders in risk technology research and insights, have released a joint report exploring how financial firms are responding to fraud in the APAC region. Leading the charge in the global fight against… Read More

November 20, 2023 @ 9:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OakNorth, the neobank for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs, has today published new research with the Social Market Foundation, a cross-party think tank, revealing the outsized impact of scale-up businesses1 on the UK economy by region, country, and sector. The new report, titled ‘The Scale of the… Read More

November 19, 2023 @ 4:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) revealed its Holiday Edition Threats Report, which anticipates heightened scam activity during the holiday season “across both card-present (CP) and card-not-present (CNP) transactions.” The new report identifies popular fraud tactics “expected between November 2023 and January 2024 due to the rapid… Read More

November 19, 2023 @ 3:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Research released by Tink, the firm focused on open banking, uncovers that investment pots have proved to be a financial ‘safety net’ for armchair investors during challenging economic times. This suggests a shift in investing behaviors “from long-term ‘set and forget’ portfolios, to needing instant… Read More

November 18, 2023 @ 4:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

More than nine in ten investors (94%) believe corporate reporting on sustainability performance contains unsupported claims, according to PwC’s 2023 Global Investor Survey. The survey – now in its third consecutive year – “queried 345 investors and analysts across geographies, assets classes, and investment approaches… Read More

November 18, 2023 @ 11:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

US investment banks have less budget and workforce to devote to fighting financial crime and adhere to changing regulation, according to the 2023 KYC Banking Trends Report by Fenergo, the provider of digital solutions for Know Your Customer (KYC), Transaction Monitoring and Client Lifecycle Management… Read More

November 17, 2023 @ 6:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Holiday shopping season is a favorite time of year for many, but as consumers everywhere start preparing to open their wallets ahead of Black Friday, “a new type of threat has begun rearing its ugly head: AI-based fraud.” The recent boom in AI capabilities and… Read More

November 17, 2023 @ 9:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

HYPR, The Identity Assurance Company, and Yubico (NASDAQ: YUBICO), the provider of hardware authentication security keys, have published a new study on challenges, perceptions and outcomes in “the usage of password and passwordless authentication technologies.” The report, titled “Transcending Passwords: The Next Generation of Authentication”… Read More

November 17, 2023 @ 7:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Onfido, the global automated identity verification provider, today announced the findings of its 2024 Identity Fraud Report and unveiled its Fraud Lab. The report points to the increasing availability of simple-to-use AI tools “as the reason for a 31X increase in deepfakes1 and 5X increase… Read More

November 16, 2023 @ 9:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nucleus Financial Platforms, one of the UK’s independent, adviser platform groups, launches the UK Retirement Confidence Index. The research study has reportedly “involved surveying more than 2,200 UK adults aged 50 and over by YouGov.” It’s based on responses “to the central question of how… Read More

November 16, 2023 @ 5:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Over three-quarters (77%) of senior finance executives globally expect the economic environment to improve over the coming year, “up considerably from two-thirds (66%) in 2022.” That is according to the latest Future of Finance Study by SIX – an annual survey “that canvasses the opinions… Read More

November 15, 2023 @ 11:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ongoing economic challenges have caused two in five (41%) small business owners to sacrifice their salaries, and one in three (34%) to use their personal funds, “to keep their businesses running,” according to new research from global small business platform Xero. The Money Matters report… Read More

November 15, 2023 @ 9:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Over eight in ten SME finance experts (83%) believe that high street banks are reducing their appetite to fund the UK’s 5.5m small and medium-sized businesses, according to iwoca’s latest Q3 2023 SME Expert Index. The analysis shows that “the drop in lending is set… Read More

November 14, 2023 @ 9:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Despite mortgage rates reaching 23-year highs, low inventory levels “are spurring surprisingly strong competition,” according to Zillow‘s (NASDAQ: Z and ZG) latest market report1. Depleted inventory stocks are “gradually recovering, and price appreciation is slowing, but demand has remained resilient, and attractive, appropriately priced listings… Read More

November 11, 2023 @ 1:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Instant Financial, the firm focused on the responsible on-demand pay solutions, partnered with HR Dive’s studioID to find out how companies perceive and use earned wage access (EWA) as a benefit to attract, retain and engage employees. The research study found that while many employers… Read More

November 11, 2023 @ 9:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

With macroeconomic conditions continuing to make it difficult for auto lenders to maintain or increase profitability, all eyes have “turned to digital channels as the most cost-effective and efficient means to do so.” According to the J.D. Power 2023 U.S. Consumer Financing Satisfaction Study, released… Read More