Research/analysis

News/payments

More than half of Brits now use mobile wallets

A cash usage continues to dwindle, more than half of Brits now use mobile wallets for online and contactless payments.

01 October 2025

News/payments

Finextra & ACI Worldwide launch new global research on the next era of payments

Finextra Research has released its latest global survey report Payments 2030: What’s shaping the future?, revealing how organisations are aligning their payments strategies with market and regulatory demands, the challenges they face, and the technological and operational shifts shaping investment decisions.

26 September 2025

News/regulation

BIS researchers harness AI to forecast financial market dysfunction

Researchers from the Bank for International Settlements have used AI to produce daily forecasts of market dysfunction 60 business days before thy actually happen.

25 September 2025

Research/Research/analysisSurvey

Payments 2030: What’s shaping the future?

25 September 2025 361 downloads

News/wholesale

UK dominates European fintech funding

The UK accounted for more than half of European fintech venture funding in the first half of 2025, as the sector reached a point of maturity following a difficult couple of years, according to a Finch Capital report.

19 September 2025

News/ai

Two-thirds of banking sector AI research driven by five banks

JPMorgan Chase is responsible for more than a third of all banking sector AI research, according to data from benchmarking and intelligence platform Evident.

18 September 2025

Research/Research/analysisFuture of Report

The Future of Cross Border Payments 2026: Strategies for Success

17 September 2025 570 downloads

News/wholesale

UK fintech investment hits $7.2 billion in H1

Total UK fintech investment hit $7.2 billion in the first half of 2025, down five per cent from $7.6 billion in the same period in 2024, according to KPMG’s latest Pulse of Fintech report.

11 August 2025

Finextra TV/wealth

The 3 Most Compelling AI Use Cases in Wealth Management

As part of our new Future of Wealth Series, Joe Bonanno, Global Head of Data Analytics & Innovation - Citi Wealth, Citi joined FinextraTV to discuss some of the key components of the current wealth management sector. Specifically, Bonanno brings insights into how AI is being receieved across the industry and the ways in which it is particularly useful in relation to data inputs for large language models, task optimisation and research.

05 August 2025

Finextra TV/ai

How AI Can Reduce Decision Fatigue for Asset Managers

Joining the FinextraTV Virtual Studio, Phil Cox, COO, Russell Investments and Roshan Shetty, BFSI & Public Sector Head - Americas, Tech Mahindra discuss the decision fatigue within asset management currently and how AI helps alleviate that. Splitting the task abilities that can be improved into analysis, portfolio construction, risk management and trading strategies, Shetty and Cox debate the ease if AI adoption into existing processes and how information-based tools have risen to the top.

30 July 2025

News/ai

FS firms turn to agentic AI for compliance operations

The majority of global financial institutions are actively implementing agentic AI in order to improve their compliance operations, according to research from Fenergo.

25 July 2025

News/cloud

Survey suggests boom in banks' cloud adoption

The vast majority of financial services firms are accelerating their investment in cloud technology, suggests a recently released survey.

14 July 2025

News/inclusion

The Payments Association calls for more LGBTQIA+ diversity in payments

Findings from a survey conducted by The Payments Association (TPA) highlighted the need for further LGBTQIA+ inclusion in financial services.

04 July 2025

News/devops

CBDC pilot projects seeing adoption in Ghana and Thailand – Giesecke + Devrient

Raoul Herborg, managing director, central bank digital currency (CBDC) solutions at Giesecke and Devrient (G+D) spoke to Finextra on their release of a recent survey on CBDC progress worldwide, and what we can expect from CBDCs in the coming years.

04 July 2025

News/ai

Irish bankers concerned about job displacement through AI - survey

The vast majority of employees in Ireland's financial services believe that the rise of AI will lead to job displacement across the industry, according to a recently released survey.

26 June 2025

News/crypto

BIS report pours cold water on stablecoin hype

They may be the current darling of the financial services world, but stablecoins fall short as a form of sound money and at best may "eventually play a subsidiary role in the hinterland of the financial system," according to the Bank for International Settlement.

25 June 2025