Research

Mercator Advisory Group’s survey documents the changing patterns of U.S. credit cardholders as they grappled with the new realities of the pandemic.

Digital payments continue to evolve around digital currencies, stable coins, and cryptocurrencies, and financial institutions will need to determine how they will participate in digital financial services. With FIs moving beyond asset managem...

To survive and thrive in business digital banking in the coming decade, banks will need to transform their offerings in a way that keeps small businesses from looking over the fence at encroaching non-bank players. In this report, Javelin lays o...

The march towards B2B faster payments ubiquity continues.

The digital direct channel offers a compelling alternative to traditional indirect auto finance. But auto lenders seeking to establish a presence in the digital direct channel will find an already crowded field of nonbank fintech lenders, one-st...

Faster adoption of API’s, PaaS, Cloud, and other emerging technologies is driven by the shift in consumer behavior and by investments and acquisitions of fintechs.

The recovery process from December’s SolarWinds attack is just beginning. Financial institutions got off easy this time, but now must take immediate action to mitigate insecurity from this attack and strengthen their security posture in anticipa...

Consumers remain a target for cybercriminals as a third stimulus bill is passed into law. Preventing unemployment benefit scams and Economic Impact Payment check fraud should be a priority for financial services. Financial institutions have an o...

The banking industry is investing heavily in chat bots and virtual assistants, but pioneering banks are struggling to encourage customers to adopt these conversational tools and interfaces. Banks must consolidate a confusing range of discovery t...

The last phase of the U.S. retail conversion to EMV chip cards is approaching the card networks’ April 2021 mandate. After delays reaching back to 2015, fuel merchants are among the last holdouts. Most will make it; many will not. The transition...