Finexer market research report has been featured in FF News, covering a finding that will resonate with every finance and operations team running manual payment workflows: more than half of UK finance teams lose over 20 hours a month to manual banking and payment processes. That is 2.5 working days, every month, on work that should not need a person behind it.
The report surveyed 418 UK senior decision-makers across finance, technology, operations, and compliance in August 2026. The findings paint a consistent picture of fragmentation across UK payment infrastructure:
- 90% of organisations manage two or more banking or payment providers
- 42% reported a delay confirming payment arrival in the past 12 months
- 40% experienced a delayed payout
- 96% experienced at least one of nine operational failures measured in the study
The research covers where the failures concentrate, what is driving them, and what organisations with more connected payment infrastructure do differently.
Read the full article on FF News: New Research: UK Businesses Losing Up to Four Days a Month to Manual Banking and Payment Processes
Download the full report: The UK Open Banking Data and Payments Automation Landscape
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The Finexer Team is a collective of fintech engineers, payments specialists, and Open Banking experts working on financial infrastructure for UK businesses. Finexer builds API-driven solutions that allow companies to access real-time bank data, initiate Pay by Bank payments, and integrate financial services directly into their products.