Research

The long-awaited final rules under Section 1033 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 present technology departments and tech leadership with a new set of compliance challenges that will require them to assess ...

Successful sharing of threat intelligence must move beyond the borders of traditional financial services and governments to include social media, a breeding ground for cybercrime and nation-state threats. This will be tricky for FIs, which must ...

Mass-market credit cards must balance features and rates to attract average U.S. consumers. This Javelin Strategy & Research report benchmarks general-purpose credit cards by 10 major issuers with an eye toward the most appealing pitches across ...

Closed-loop prepaid programs continue enjoying strong growth across the breadth of the industry. In this annual report, Javelin Strategy & Research takes a look at the market for closed-loop prepaid programs across a range of categories and iden...

ePayables providers were assessed quantitatively and qualitatively across four categories: Supplier Enablement, Cross-Border, Ledger and Back-Office Integration, and Infrastructure and Architecture. This broad-based and robust evaluation allowed...

OS-based mobile wallets, particularly Apple’s, maintain the dominant share of the market. But challengers are coming in various alternative payment forms (such as account-to-account transactions) and in-app payments favored by merchants wishing ...

Walmart’s announcement that it will offer shoppers the option to check out with instant pay-by-bank payments beginning in 2025 is a major development for real-time payments, pay-by-bank, and the retail industry in the United States. As the world...

Instant payments are proliferating, and business bankers are searching for a set of “killer use cases” to drive widespread adoption. Many businesses are experimenting with instant payments, yet awareness among the broader market remains low and ...

Cryptocurrencies are making inconsistent progress in the United States. The regulatory environment, at best, sends mixed signals. Consumer attitudes are wary. Even as bitcoin values surge, viewpoints range from outright distrust sowed by scandal...

Digital wallets are made possible by a chip in smartphones that enables the phones to function like payment cards when they’re tapped on an accepting terminal device. Now those same chips, utilizing near-field communication technology, have been...