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Sector Analysis
Payments Landscape in Belgium: Opportunities and Risks to 2022
GlobalData’s "Payments Landscape in Belgium: Opportunities and Risks to 2022", report provides detailed analysis of market trends in the Belgian cards and payments industry. It provides values and volumes for a number of key performance indicators in the industry, including cash, cards, credit transfers, direct debits, and cheques during the review-period (2014-18e). The report also analyzes various payment card markets operating in the industry and provides detailed information on the number of cards in circulation, transaction values and volumes during...
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Sector Analysis
Payments Landscape in France: Opportunities and Risks to 2022
GlobalData’s "Payments Landscape in France: Opportunities and Risks to 2022", report provides detailed analysis of market trends in the French cards and payments industry. It provides values and volumes for a number of key performance indicators in the industry, including credit transfers, direct debits, cash, cards, and cheques during the review-period (2014-18e). The report also analyzes various payment card markets operating in the industry, and provides detailed information on the number of cards in circulation, transaction values and volumes during...
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Sector Analysis
Payments Landscape in Egypt: Opportunities and Risks to 2022
GlobalData’s "Payments Landscape in Egypt: Opportunities and Risks to 2022", report provides detailed analysis of market trends in the Egyptian cards and payments industry. It provides values and volumes for a number of key performance indicators in the industry, including credit transfers, direct debit, cards, cash, and cheques during the review-period (2014-18e). The report also analyzes various payment card markets operating in the industry and provides detailed information on the number of cards in circulation, transaction values and volumes during...
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Analyst Opinions
Retail Banking Country Snapshot: France 2016
The markets for mortgages and personal loans are largely dominated by a single provider (Crédit Agricole for mortgages, LCL for loans). Across all main products branches remain the key channel for acquiring new customers, with many providers not offering digital onboarding. Customers choose providers mainly on the basis of reputation, existing relationships, and rate. Only a minority of consumers either use, or intend to use, fintech providers, with younger consumers proving the most receptive.
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Analyst Opinions
Open API Banking: Defining the Potential and Opportunities; Strategies for a world of open banking
Regulatory and technological developments are pushing banks in Europe and the UK to open up access to their systems and data via the use of application programming interfaces (APIs). If banks embrace the concept, they will be able to become one-stop shops for the best products on the market, crowdsource the development of new services, and generate revenue by selling access to their data and capabilities.
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Sector Analysis
Consumer Payments Country Snapshot: France
Issuers are getting contactless cards into the hands of consumers, but many are either unconvinced of the technology’s benefits or concerned about security. Payment providers will need to invest in educating consumers on the benefits of contactless technology and strengthening the technology’s value proposition. E-commerce continues to account for the vast majority of online purchases in France. However, m-commerce is gaining ground, with its share of online purchases quickly growing from 1% in 2010 to 12% in 2014. Payment providers...
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Analyst Opinions
Super League In-Depth Analysis: Crédit Agricole 2016
Crédit Agricole has four business divisions: Specialized Financial Services, Large Customers, Retail Banking, and Asset Gathering. Asset Gathering hosts Indosuez Wealth Management. The French private banking entities of LCL and Regional Banks are located under the Retail Banking division. In January 2016 Crédit Agricole unified its numerous international private banking operations under the brand Indosuez Wealth Management. Indosuez Wealth Management has not been involved in any M&A activity since 2014, when a private banking office with bank Cariparma in Italy...
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Analyst Opinions
Wealth Management Super League 2016; Comparing the performance of the world’s leading wealth managers
At the end of 2015, client assets booked with the world’s 25 leading private wealth managers grew by 0.9%. The top three rankings remained unchanged, with Switzerland’s UBS leading the way, followed by the US players Bank of America (BoA) Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley. Although industry-wide growth was much weaker than a year ago, pushed down by challenging market conditions and exchange rate fluctuations, most competitors maintained positive new money flows. Looking forward, however, 2016 results will reveal whether...
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Company Insights
Super League In-Depth Analysis: Crédit Agricole Wealth Management 2017 – Tracking the world’s major competitors in wealth management
"Super League In-Depth Analysis: Crédit Agricole Wealth Management 2017", is a comprehensive analysis of Crédit Agricole’s wealth management operations. It offers insight into the company’s strategy, financial results, and marketing activities. It also covers recent merger and acquisition (M&A) activity, customer targeting, and product innovation. Headquartered in France, Crédit Agricole is a banking group that serves 52 million clients across 50 countries. It operates through four business divisions: specialized financial services, large customers, retail banking, and asset gathering. Asset gathering...
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Sector Analysis
Global Wealth Management: Competitive Dynamics
"Global Wealth Management: Competitive Dynamics", report benchmarks the world’s leading wealth managers by managed client assets and financial performance. It covers the 34 most prominent institutions, including standalone private banks and wealth managers, as well as competitors that are part of larger universal financial groups. All international wealth managers with over $100bn in private client AUM are featured in the report. At the end of 2016, client assets managed by the world’s top private wealth managers had grown by 6.1%...