Research

Debit products aimed at kids and teenagers are highly useful financial services: They allow parents to help their kids build strong financial habits and offer a pathway to deeper relationships between financial institutions and families. Several...

A homepage that makes an app easier to understand and navigate is critical to mobile banking success. Search and virtual assistants will one day provide concierge-like navigation and service, but for now the best practice is to organize compleme...

For banks serving small businesses, securing a new checking account is rightfully celebrated as a win. However, many FIs stumble in the crucial post-application phase, failing to effectively onboard new users and position the bank as the first p...

The world of art collecting and investment, once the province of ultra-high-net-worth investors, is being made more accessible by a range of fintechs offering a variety of ownership models and starting points. These offerings allow wealth manage...

Javelin Strategy & Research sees an increased opportunity for cybersecurity awareness and engagement with consumers within mobile banking, where push notifications and alerts are administered directly through mobile apps and educational material...

Gen Z’s eagerness to turn to “finfluencers” on Snapchat, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and other social media puts mainstream financial institutions and lenders in an entirely new game that they are ill-prepared to win. While traditional instituti...

To increase the odds of connecting with customers in person when it matters most, innovative banks are rethinking how they position their branches within digital banking. One trend is to position branches as a place for financial planning and gu...

Javelin Strategy & Research’s 18th annual Mobile Banking Scorecard looks at what’s new, what’s interesting, and what’s baffling with the mobile banking apps of 20 of the largest U.S. financial institutions. We rank these institutions based on 23...

With consumers increasingly demanding a 1-2 combination of simplicity and safety, U.S. Bank won Best in Class status in the online banking edition of Javelin Strategy & Research’s industry-leading annual digital banking annual scorecards. U.S. B...

At long last, the everyday applications of decentralized finance, long championed but also mostly theoretical, are meeting reality as cryptocurrencies and digital assets come into their own. That sense of optimism about the industry was palpable...