Phishing attacks and business email compromise continue to be major threats to the security of financial services firms. Between insufficient employee cybersecurity training and lacking technology and communications policies, organizations shoul...

All businesses today are at greater risk of attack because their surfaces of access-points, endpoints and digital channels have greatly increased, as the COVID-19 pandemic expanded the remote workforce and the use of digital channels. More relia...

The meteoric rise of cryptocurrency so far has outpaced regulators, tax management, and the payments industry. The coming year, however, looms as a time of catching up. With global financial powerhouses jumping into crypto, regulators won’t be f...

The modular delivery of services in the payments allows rapid deployment of new wrinkles that offer consumers tailored, highly engaging experiences. This report looks at that modular delivery model and explores strategies to help payments compan...

Javelin Strategy & Research evaluated 11 vendors in its 2021 Digital Banking Platform Vendor Scorecard, identifying a “Best in Class” winner (Backbase) as well as two leaders (Apiture and Q2) and two leaders in each of three sections: functional...

The trends in cybersecurity in the coming year will be marked by shifts in focus. Ransomware, long directed mainly at businesses, will increasingly afflict everyday consumers, many of whom are ripe targets for criminals. At the financial institu...

The traditional definition of “financial relationship” has changed forever. For banks to adjust to this change and deepen their connections with customers, they will have to embrace new ways of defining those relationships, speed their evolution...

In this report, a companion piece to Three Priorities for Countering Fraud Against Small Businesses, Javelin outlines why small businesses are uniquely susceptible to fraudulent activity, and provides a detailed framework for how banks can deput...

The prevention and mitigation of fraud is a bottom-line concern for banks. For the owners of small businesses among their customers, fraud can be devastating to the enterprise and to the banking relationship. The best line of defense against fra...

Roughly 20 years after the advent of eNotes in the mortgage industry, fully paperless loans still account for only a small fraction of overall volume. The fact is, digital closings offer many advantages over traditional in-person, on-paper closi...