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• Paul Hastings’ study on the evolution of cash in the US and UK (December 2016).

• ENISA’s Security of mobile payments and digital wallets report (December 2016).

• A brave new world for global banking: McKinsey’s annual global banking review 2016 (December 2016).

• Open banking: a consumer perspective. An independent report by Faith Reynolds (January 2017).

• An ENISA report on blockchain technology and security (January 2017).

• The Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of the European Parliament’s own-initiative draft report on Fintech: the influence of technology on the future of the financial sector, rapporteur Cora van Nieuwenhuizen (January 2017).

• Ecommerce Europe’s position paper Towards a stronger online mobile payments landscape in Europe (January 2017).

• Roland Berger’s report on Successfully navigating changes to payments regulations (February 2017).