Research

Maintaining business financial health is a challenge. Most entrepreneurs are not financial professionals, nor are they fluent in the language of banking, payments, and financial analysis. In a business environment that’s ever-changing and ridden...

Account-to-account (A2A) transfers can flow on ACH rails, which can take a few days to process, or on instant payment rails. A2A transfers can disburse funds immediately with a wide application of uses, from insurance payouts to cash-outs from a...

Apple has launched Savings, a component of its financial ecosystem that positions it to become a personal payment stack service provider. The ability it has to keep customers within the “walled garden” of its popular devices offers great potenti...

As U.S. consumers continue spending more on healthcare-related activities, using prepaid products becomes more valuable and impactful, creating opportunities for the entire ecosystem.

Competition among providers of turnkey customer relationship management (CRM) systems for registered investment advisors (RIAs) continues to heat up. The turnkey CRM market has traditionally targeted RIAs with less than $500 million in assets un...

Javelin’s 17th annual Mobile Banking Scorecard looks at what’s new, what’s interesting, and what’s baffling with the mobile banking apps of 20 of the largest U.S. financial institutions. We rank these institutions based on more than 250 criteria...

The 2023 Online Banking Scorecard from Javelin Strategy & Research underscores that success in digital banking now is as much about winning “share of mind” as “share of wallet." Each of the top 20 retail financial institutions made moves to rais...

Generation X is the middle child of American demographics: smaller and less significant than the still-massive Baby Boomers and the ascendant Y and Z generations coming up behind. It is ensconced in the stabilizing influences of employment, home...

Tax is a critical component of the consumer balance sheet, one that drives financial outcomes. Yet the calculation and filing of taxes on income remains a form-based, poorly integrated function. Tax apps embedded in financial institutions and di...

Third-party comparison websites are a formidable avenue of credit card marketing and consumers’ identification of which card products to pursue with their applications. It’s a marketplace that has evolved to include several large contenders, and...