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Retail Core Banking Platforms in Focus: SPARK Matrix™ Market Intelligence

  QKS Group’s Retail Core Banking Systems market research for EMEA and APAC provides a comprehensive and forward-looking analysis of the evolving core banking landscape across two of the most dynamic and diverse financial markets globally. The study examines the market through the lens of emerging technology innovations, key market trends, and long-term growth prospects, offering valuable insights into how banks and financial institutions are transforming their core banking infrastructures to remain competitive in an increasingly digital-first environment. The research is designed to support technology vendors in understanding the current competitive landscape and refining their product and growth strategies, while enabling financial institutions to evaluate vendor capabilities, competitive differentiation, and overall market positioning. Retail core banking platforms serve as the foundational backbone of financial institutions, supporting critical functions such as deposit mana...

SPARK Plus™: Deep-Dive Analysis of the Card Management System Market

  QKS Group’s Card Management System (CMS) market research delivers a comprehensive and forward-looking analysis of the global CMS landscape, examining the market through the lens of emerging technology trends, evolving market dynamics, and long-term growth opportunities. As card-based payments continue to play a central role in the global financial ecosystem, this research is designed to help stakeholders navigate an increasingly complex and competitive environment. The study provides actionable strategic insights for technology vendors seeking to strengthen their market presence and refine their growth strategies, while also enabling banks, fintechs, and enterprises to evaluate vendor capabilities, competitive differentiation, and overall market positioning with greater clarity. The global CMS market is undergoing rapid transformation, driven by the acceleration of digital payments, the proliferation of fintech ecosystems, and rising consumer expectations for seamless, secure,...

SPARK Matrix™ Q2 2025: Redefining the Digital Banking Platform Landscape

  QKS Group’s SPARK Matrix™ Digital Banking Platform market research delivers a comprehensive and forward-looking assessment of the global digital banking ecosystem, examining the market through the lens of emerging technology innovations, evolving business models, competitive dynamics, and long-term growth opportunities. As financial institutions worldwide accelerate their digital transformation journeys, digital banking platforms have become the cornerstone of modern banking operations, enabling banks to deliver seamless, secure, and personalized customer experiences across channels. This research provides a holistic view of the Digital Banking Platform market by analyzing key market drivers, restraints, opportunities, and challenges shaping its evolution. It explores how macroeconomic factors, regulatory mandates, and changing customer expectations are influencing technology adoption and investment priorities across retail, corporate, and digital-first banks. The study highl...

SPARK Matrix™: Investment Accounting Systems, Q4 2024 – Strategic Vendor Benchmarking

  QKS Group’s Investment Accounting Systems Market Research presents a comprehensive and forward-looking assessment of the global market, examining emerging technology innovations, evolving investment management practices, and the long-term outlook shaping investment accounting operations. As asset managers, banks, insurance companies, pension funds, and alternative investment firms navigate increasing portfolio complexity and regulatory scrutiny, investment accounting systems have become a mission-critical component of modern financial infrastructure. The research analyzes how investment accounting systems are transitioning from traditional record-keeping tools into intelligent, real-time platforms that support transparency, accuracy, and regulatory compliance across the investment lifecycle. Growing diversification across asset classes—such as equities, fixed income, derivatives, private equity, real assets, and structured products—has significantly increased accounting comple...

SPARK Matrix™: Intercompany Accounting Software, Q4 2025 – Strategic Vendor Benchmarking

  QKS Group’s Intercompany Accounting Software Market Research delivers a comprehensive and forward-looking assessment of the global market, examining emerging technology trends, evolving enterprise finance requirements, and the long-term outlook shaping intercompany financial operations. As multinational organizations expand through acquisitions, operate across multiple legal entities, and manage increasingly complex corporate structures, intercompany accounting has become a critical focus area for finance transformation and governance. The research analyzes how intercompany accounting software is evolving from a transactional back-office tool into a strategic enabler of financial control, transparency, and regulatory compliance. Enterprises today face growing challenges related to high transaction volumes, multi-currency operations, diverse tax jurisdictions, and stringent audit requirements. Manual intercompany processes—often reliant on spreadsheets and disconnected ERP syst...

SPARK Matrix™ Q4 2024: Mapping the Global Secrets Management Market

  QKS Group’s Secrets Management Market Research delivers a comprehensive and forward-looking analysis of the global market, examining emerging technology trends, evolving market dynamics, and the long-term outlook shaping how organizations protect sensitive digital assets. As enterprises accelerate cloud adoption, embrace DevOps and CI/CD pipelines, and modernize application architectures, the secure management of secrets has emerged as a foundational requirement for safeguarding digital infrastructure and preventing credential-based attacks. The research explores how secrets management has evolved from a narrow operational concern into a strategic pillar of enterprise security. Organizations today manage an ever-growing volume of sensitive credentials—including API keys, passwords, access tokens, certificates, and encryption keys—across cloud-native applications, microservices, containers, and hybrid IT environments. The proliferation of machine identities, automation tools, a...

Inside the SPARK Matrix™: Identity Capture and Verification Solutions Landscape, Q1 2025

  QKS Group’s Identity Capture and Verification Solutions Market Research delivers a comprehensive and forward-looking assessment of the global market, examining emerging technology innovations, evolving buyer expectations, competitive dynamics, and the long-term outlook shaping digital identity ecosystems worldwide. As organizations across banking, fintech, telecom, healthcare, government, and digital services accelerate online engagement, identity verification has become a foundational capability for enabling secure, trusted, and frictionless digital interactions. The research explores how identity capture and verification solutions are evolving beyond traditional document checks to become real-time, intelligence-driven platforms that support secure onboarding, account access, transaction authentication, and ongoing identity assurance. Increasing fraud sophistication, the rise of synthetic identities, deepfake-enabled impersonation, and stricter regulatory oversight have inten...