This report summarizes our forecasts for nine countries—the US, Canada, France, Germany, the UK, China, India, Japan, and South Korea—and offers comparative analyses of the major time spent numbers for each.

This inaugural study, weighted based on responses to a consumer survey, ranks the seven largest Canadian financial institutions by assets according to their mobile banking capabilities. It presents detailed benchmarking data on the availability of 42 mobile features, selected by analysts based on their propensity to set FIs apart.

In 2021, digital payment card transactions—credit card, debit card, and prepaid card—will total $67.74 billion in Canada.

The news: The biggest Canadian banks more than doubled funding into highly polluting tar sands oil projects to $16.8 billion last year, according to a report by a coalition of environmental groups. More on this: The report casts doubts over Canadian banks’ commitment to reach net zero emissions by 2050, despite their having signed the UN-convened banking alliance pledge.

The reduction in commuting during the pandemic suppressed radio consumption: Just 77% of survey respondents in Canada said they traveled in a car in 2021, compared with 92% in 2020, according to Edison Research’s Infinite Dial Canada 2021 report. Remote working, which is still common in much of the country, will continue to buoy digital audio consumption in the years ahead.

Canadian viewership will reach new heights this year, according to our latest digital video viewer forecast.

Workers at Canada-based Bioware—which itself is owned by Electronic Arts—have begun organizing with a Canadian labor group. Montreal-based Ubisoft is also facing internal strife and high-level departures over its workplace culture and focus on NFTs.