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European Banks Skeptical on SEPA Instant Payments Timeline: Not by 2025.

At the beginning of 2022, only 11% of all Euro credit transfers in the EU were instant, and the European Commission wants to fix this and make them all instant.  The Single Euro Payments Regulation (SEPA) aims to enable both institutions and consumers to benefit… Read More

UK Business Confidence Maintained as Firms Anticipate Positive Developments in 2024 – Report

Lloyds Bank’s latest Business Barometer has found that business confidence remains high, with March’s figures unchanged month-on-month at 42%. In a promising sign of a return to economic growth, this month’s survey data reflects the continued confidence firms “have demonstrated so far in 2024 and… Read More

UK Economy Is Improving But Structural Headwinds May Constrain Growth – Report

Inflation is expected to return to its 2% target in the first half of the year, which should pave the way for interest rate cuts from the summer, according to an update from KPMG UK. Interest rates are forecast to fall by 100 basis points… Read More

Fintech Investments in Ireland Declined Considerably Last Year – Report

2023 was a challenging year for the Irish FinTech market, with investments and transactions reaching $60.83 million across 11 deals; this was a significant decrease (94 percent) compared to last year, where investments and transactions totaled over $1 billion across 22 deals, according to the… Read More

Online Retailers Leave Significant Number of Chargebacks Undisputed, Contributing to Lost Revenue – Report

Riskified (NYSE:RSKD), a firm focused on fraud prevention and risk intelligence,  unveiled Chargeback Challenges and What You Can Do About Them: Global Insights 2024, a survey conducted in partnership with Paladin Fraud of over 300 ecommerce chargeback managers worldwide to “explore how the rising rates… Read More

Emergence of New Unicorns Rebounded in Q4 2023 with GenAI Firms Growing at Breakneck Pace – Report

The world’s 1,229 unicorn companies, which are businesses valued at $1 billion or more, have been closely examined in an extensive update shared by CBInsights. CBInsights has looked at every billion-dollar startup around the globe and profiled the fastest-growing unicorn markets in the fast-evolving digital… Read More

Remittance Payments to Latin America May Be Enhanced with Digitalization – Research Report

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) released a whitepaper on the state of remittances, also known as cross-border payments, in Latin America. Remittances play a key role in strengthening financial inclusion in the region, boosting economies, and alleviating poverty –often “serving as an essential source of income for… Read More

China Startups Secure $6.4B in VC Funding in First 2 Months of 2024 – Research Report

China witnessed the announcement of a total of 416 venture capital (VC) funding deals of worth $6.4 billion during the first two months of year 2024, which is a year-on-year (YoY) decline of 18.9% in terms of deal volume and 4.9% in terms of funding… Read More

Earned Wage Access Fintech DailyPay Survey: Gen Z Hourly Workers Increasingly Prefer On-Demand Pay Options

Most Gen Z hourly workers are fond of their current job, with 73% citing they like or love it according to a recent survey conducted online by The Harris Poll, commissioned by DailyPay. Still, their financial security is the driving force “for getting the majority… Read More

Fraudulent Activities: Nearly 1 in 7 Newly Created Accounts Suspected to be Digital Fraud – Report

Largely driven by bad actors using fabricated or stolen identities, the newly released TransUnion (NYSE: TRU) 2024 State of Omnichannel Fraud Report, based on proprietary insights from TransUnion’s global intelligence network, found that nearly one in seven newly created accounts is suspected to be Digital… Read More

Number of Growing UK Sectors Reaches 10-Month High, Lloyds Banking Group Report Claims

The number of UK sectors reporting output growth hit a 10-month high in February, with companies indicating rising demand and spreading business optimism, according to the latest Lloyds Bank UK Sector Tracker. In February, 10 of the 14 UK sectors monitored by the Tracker reported… Read More

Solana Ecosystem Now Accounts for Nearly 50% of Crypto Investor Interest in Chain-Specific Narratives – Report

The Solana ecosystem has emerged as the most popular blockchain ecosystem so far this year, accounting for 49.3% of global crypto investor interest in chain-specific narratives, according to an update from CoinGecko. The CoinGecko report noted that the Solana ecosystem’s dominant mindshare “has been fueled… Read More

Most ERC-20 Tokens on DEXes May be Part of Pump and Dump Schemes, but Represent Insignificant Trading Volumes – Report

For most of the research that Chainalysis release in their annual Crypto Crime Report, the data tells “a clear story.” For instance, funds sent to ransomware operators, darknet markets, or sanctioned entities can be measured and trends “can be analyzed with Chainalysis labeling and data.”… Read More

Brightflag, an AI-enhanced Legal Operations Platform, Releases Insights from Legal Operations Compensation Survey

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Now in its third year, Brightflag’s annual Corporate Legal Operations Compensation Report captures data to help legal operations professionals, General Counsel, and HR leaders better understand fair market compensation and recent salary trends. The survey that forms the basis of the report was conducted in… Read More

UK Small Businesses Faced Slower Wage Growth and Late Payments – Research Report

Small firms continue to face a challenging macroeconomic environment, as sales growth in the December festive period hit a three-year low, according to the Xero Small Business Insights (XSBI) data from global small business platform Xero – which covers the three months to December 2023…. Read More

AI and Crypto Adoption Is Increasing Globally with UK and US Leading the Movement – Report

The top AI crypto countries in 2024 are the US, which accounted for 18.9% share of global interest in the narrative, followed by the UK (9.1%) and Türkiye (6.5%), according to a report from CoinGecko. The US and UK also led the meme coin craze… Read More

AI Startups Now Increasingly Backed by Tech Giants with Fintech and Regtech Platforms Adopting the Innovation – Report

The Big Tech AI “arms race” is ongoing and picking up its pace rapidly with well over 75 AI startups that are currently backed by tech giants such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Nvidia. This, according to a new report from CBInsights. CBInsights has recently… Read More

Paze Report Finds Customers Warming to Digital Wallets, Abandoning Online Carts

New research from the Paze PulseSM Report, by Early Warning Services, revealed that over the past year, 71% of online shoppers have abandoned their online shopping carts. While an overly complicated checkout process and security concerns were among the top reasons for cart abandonment cited… Read More

Bitcoin Halving May Significantly Transform Digital Assets Ecosystem, Drive BTC Price Higher – Report

Bitcoin halvings, occurring approximately every four years, are key events that significantly slow down the supply growth of BTC by reducing cryptocurrency miners’ rewards in half. By activating bitcoin’s so-called “deflationary” as well as “scarcity” mechanisms, halvings enhance its appeal as a form of “digital… Read More

Startup Compensation and Hiring Experience Reset as VC backed Firms Face Bear-Market – Report

As VC-backed startups continue to contend with bear-market headwinds, startup hiring and compensation have undergone a reset, according to an update from Carta. Last year marked a startup employment contraction: There were more total job departures from companies on Carta in 2023 than there “were… Read More

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