In its report "Level of maturity of the Spanish financial sector" KPMG maintains that new payment methods (mobile apps, contactless stickers, wearables, etc.) are gaining ground in a market that still mainly uses cash, debit and credit cards, and bank transfers.

Four in ten Spanish consumers say they are willing to make their physical shopping cart digital, according to the consulting firm Nielsen’s report Connected Commerce.

According to  Foregenix’s analysis of 60,000 web sites on Magento – the most popular e-commerce platform – 78% lack critical security patches and 5% contain malicious software that collects customers’ data.

Keeping a city’s cultural renaissance moving forward can be difficult, but with Next Gen, Birmingham, Ala. hopes to not only achieve it, but inspire the next generation to foster it.

According to Juan Manuel López Zafra and Ricardo Queralt, the co-directors of the Master’s in Data Science for Finance at the University College of Financial Studies (CUNEF), within only the last two years we have generated 90 % of all available information, but only 1 % of it can be analysed. In Europe, the workload in the Big Data sector will increase by EUR 3.5 billion between 2013 and 2018. In order to drive this increase, it is essential that there also be an increase in the number of available qualified professionals.

Spain’s airspace navigation manager ENAIRE is predicting a total of 55,000 flights in Spanish airspace during the Easter break between Friday, April 7th and April 17th. About  5,000 more flights are forecast for this week than during same period in 2016, or  2.7 % of all the estimated air traffic for 2017. ENAIRE has increased the number of air traffic controllers in its control centers and main control towers, due to the higher volume of flights.

According to the economic daily Expansión,  Spain's Association of Employment Agencies and Temporary Placement Agencies predicts that Holy Week will create 147,700 jobs in the tourist sector, an 8% increase over the same period in 2016. The hotel/restaurant and commercial sectors will create the most jobs, but the logistics, retail, transport, and "contact center" sectors will also need many more workers.

The President of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, stated this week that three-quarters of payments in the Eurozone are made in cash. He added that cash will continue to be essential to the economy, despite the increase in digital payments.

The Funcas Foundation reports that 75% of banks are willing to work with fintech companies on digitalisation to improve customer relations.

Accenture presented a new study, “The Rise of InsurTech”, which shows that nearly half of all global investment in insurance technology is in artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT).