Read the latest news in digital banking, plus our thoughts on trends and innovations in the financial services industry, based on Mapa research and insights…
Peer-to-peer consumer lending is the largest component of the alternative online lending market in Continental Europe, making up ...
While far from delivering a coherent, user-friendly end-to-end journey, digital alternatives are emerging to both complement and challenge branch-based processes around selecting and applying for mortgage products. Using our unique ...
In the context of the Bank of England base rate cut in August of this year, our analysis of public site promotions as part of Mapa’s quarterly mortgages review has...
Interest rates on UK savings accounts have been waning for a long time. This has spurred conversations on whether savings accounts are actually...
Barclays has launched the first 100% mortgage from the high street in 8 years, in what the FT calls a ‘sign of a return to riskier lending’. The...
The ever growing prominence of mobile sales journeys has begun to pick up steam among UK financial providers, with some overcoming their hesitations to explore the mobile channel for selling their borrowing products. In line with Barclays and...
Late last year, Tesco Bank undertook a phased redesign of its public site. The personal loans section on the website was also updated, apart from the loans...
At Mapa Research we find innovation often happens in a cluster. One bank does something, and then its peers rush to do the same. Like last quarter, Barclays had added a ‘base rate information...
We recently released our quarterly Personal Loans Dashboard update. Our latest research edition recorded Barclays' move to expand its
Late last month we delivered our personal loans dashboard, showing a fair amount of activity among providers. As customers increasingly use the mobile channel as an active medium...
The latest update to the Mapa Mortgages Dashboard service is now available to subscribers to view. Here are a few highlights.
This quarter, multiple providers were found
...The personal loans dashboard for the second quarter of 2014 was released recently, with plenty of activity among loan providers. According to the latest insights in relation to...