Press Releases

Consumers Vote with their Wallets: Hold Breached Organizations Accountable

June 12, 2014

Years of complacency among businesses and indifference among consumers regarding data breaches were effectively shattered in 2013. In the same year as one of the largest data breaches in history, the misuse of breached consumer data hit a record...

Underbanked and Unbanked Americans Prefer Alternative Financial Products and "High-Touch" Too

June 4, 2014

The underbanked and unbanked population is large and diverse, totaling over 71 million Americans. Alternative financial providers are stepping up to provide products and services especially tailored to meet the needs of this increasingly influential...

Mobile Payment Readers “The Square-Effect”— Drive Cash Down by 10%

May 21, 2014

The point of sale (POS) retail market is evolving like never before, as traditional paper-based payments (cash and check) have increasingly lost favor with consumers and merchants and are quickly being replaced by plastic cards and alternative...

Javelin Forecasts U.S. to Reach Global Parity in EMV by 2018

May 6, 2014

The U.S. roadmap for the deployment of EMV has existed since 2012, providing the payment industry with plenty of time to prepare for the transition from magnetic-stripe cards to smart cards. Now, with only 18 months until the most important phase of...

Attracting Women Customers for Digital Banking Engagement

March 26, 2014

Bankers and the financial services industry have much to gain analyzing ways to make digital channels more compelling, more useful, and more satisfying to the nation's 126 million women. Today, Javelin Strategy & Research released Banking...

Mobile Device Boom Led to 74,000 New Mobile Bankers per Day in 2013

March 19, 2014

The year 2013 saw an enormous influx of consumers flocking to mobile banking, with 74,000 new users joining mobile banking each day. Today, Javelin Strategy & Research released Mobile Banking, Tablet and Smartphone Forecast 2013-2018: Smart...

Online Retail Payment Forecast: 2013 took “Alternative” out of Alternative Payments

March 5, 2014

The e-commerce market is evolving at a spectacular rate, and never before has it been more competitive. In 2013, consumers spent a total of $351.9 billion online. Today, Javelin Strategy & Research released Online Retail Payments Forecast...

Big Retailers Set E-commerce Experience Bar High Requiring E-commerce Platform Vendors to Innovate

February 20, 2014

 E-commerce transactions constitute a growing share of the overall retail market.   Merchants and payments processors alike are expanding their platform solutions for card-not-present (CNP) payment acceptance and processing. ...

Tablet Payments Surge as Overall Mobile Retail Sales Top $60 Billion

February 12, 2014

 2013 marked an important mobile payment's "first," with tablet payments comprising almost half of all mobile commerce. Today, Javelin Strategy & Research released Mobile Payments Market: Tablet Payments Surge as Overall Mobile Retail...

A New Identity Fraud Victim Every Two Seconds in 2013 According to Latest Javelin Strategy & Research Study

February 5, 2014

The 2014 Identity Fraud Study reports an increase of more than 500,000 fraud victims to 13.1 million people in 2013, the second highest number since the study began. Account takeover fraud hit a new record in incidence for the second year...