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EBAday 2026: Five Key Takeaways Impacting the Banking Industry — "The New Payment Landscape: Navigating Change in 2026 and Beyond"

Maria Adele Di Comite — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note summarizes five key takeaways from EBAday 2026, held June 16–17, 2026, at the Bella Center in Copenhagen. It covers agentic AI's shift from experimentation to production; the maturing instant payments landscape under the G20 cross-border road map; regulatory reform under PSD3, PSR, and FIDA and the related debate over European payments sovereignty; fraud mitigation through collective, GDPR-compliant data sharing; and the buildout of digital assets, stablecoins, and the digital euro. These five topics are the ones IDC found most significant across a broader two-day agenda that also covered embedded finance, correspondent banking, liquidity management, and ISO 20022, alongside the event's Fintech Zone; this document does not attempt exhaustive coverage of the full conference. Dedicated panels added texture on execution: agentic payments' real-world volume is still two to three years out, OCT Inst cross-border rails already reach roughly 30% of the market according to EBA CLEARING's committed banks, and collective, GDPR-compliant data sharing emerged as banks' preferred fraud defense.

"EBAday 2026 made clear that European payments leaders have moved past debating whether AI, instant rails, and digital assets belong in mainstream banking. The conversation now is entirely about pace, governance, and who moves first with confidence." — Maria Adele Di Comite, senior research director, IDC Financial Insights Corporate and Retail Banking

IDC Market Glance: Cloud Application Deployment Platforms, 3Q26

Matthew Flug — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Glance provides a visual overview of the cloud application deployment platforms (CADPs) market landscape. It maps the ecosystem of vendors addressing organizations' needs in building and deploying high-performing, modern, AI, agentic, and next-gen applications across the cloud and digital-first world. The landscape includes a mix of vendors, from new entrants to mature cloud service providers, and breaks the market into five submarkets: deployment-centric application platforms, container orchestration software, platform management solutions and portals, function-as-a-service software, and deployment operating systems.

IDC Market Glance: Work Augmentation in EMEA, 3Q26

Erica Spinoni — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Glance illustrates the vendors active across the EMEA region in augmenting the three pillars of the future of work: the AI readiness of the workforce, the AI enablement of the workplaces, and the AI integration into workplaces.

EMEA AI adoption is transitioning from experimentation to scaled, production-grade execution, with governance and EU AI Act compliance becoming central. In this context, organizational COEs are driving measurable productivity gains, while sovereignty, frontline enablement, and physical‑cognitive convergence define the next wave of enterprise value. Workforce transformation emerges as a key opportunity alongside AI scaling, as organizations expand mobile-first enablement, upskilling, and new AI-centric roles. Peculiar to the region is that sovereign AI ecosystems and regulatory frameworks are reshaping vendor strategies, while industrial and clinical convergence accelerates edge-driven innovation across EMEA's core sectors.

IDC Market Glance: 中国AI营销市场概览，2Q26

Lizzie Li, Wenting Xu — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

迈入AI大模型普及阶段，中国营销市场正在完成从数字化向智能化的深度转型。大模型打通数据、市场洞察、内容生产、媒介投放、用户运营、营销触达全链路，在降低营销成本的同事，提升了营销的效率和成果。与此同时，消费者信息获取方式持续变革，AI对话交互催生全新流量阵地，品牌竞争延伸至 AI 知识资产布局。本IDC Market Glance报告涵盖了2026年第二季度中国AI营销市场，并展示了不同细分市场中具有代表性的活跃厂商。

IDC Market Glance: 中国数据库管理系统，3Q26

Lizzie Li, Nan Wang — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本IDC Market Glance报告涵盖了2026年第三季度中国数据库管理系统市场，并展示了不同细分市场中具有代表性的活跃厂商。中国数据库管理系统市场已经从早期“国产化替代驱动的高速扩张”进入“国产深化+云原生+AI原生+行业核心系统落地”的新阶段。企业不再追求单一数据库一统所有场景，转而搭建混合数据基础设施：关系型、文档、时序、图、流引擎各司其职。数据管理产品既有细分分化，也出现场景整合；厂商不再单纯比拼单一引擎性能，而是重点打造引擎互通能力。

IDC Survey: Closing the Scope 3 Gap: Procurement and Supplier Engagement — IDC Energy Transition Survey, 2026

Roberta Bigliani — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey draws from the results of IDC’s 2026 Energy Transition Survey, which examines how large organizations across manufacturing, buildings, transportation, construction, and datacenter sectors are shaping their energy transition programs. It quantifies target maturity, investment trajectory, drivers, expected reductions, benefits achieved, and payback expectations. The findings inform go-to-market strategies for technology suppliers and service providers active in decarbonization, energy efficiency, and asset optimization.

This report profiles how organizations use procurement policies, supplier engagement programs, and Scope 3 data to reduce supply chain emissions. It covers what buyers include in RFPs and tenders, what responsible sourcing activities are in place, how mature Scope 3 data collection is, and which systems of record support the work. These set the buyer decision agenda for chief procurement officers, sustainability leaders, and the CFO organization.

The analysis covers:

Scope 3, Scope 1 and 2, and net zero commitments included in RFPs and tenders, by region and sector
Responsible sourcing activities in place, from supplier energy programs to Tier 1 decarbonization enforcement
Scope 3 data collection maturity and completion gaps across regions and sector clusters
Top data issues and the systems of record used for sustainability reporting, including ERP versus dedicated carbon platforms
Implications for chief procurement officers, sustainability leaders, and the CFO organization.

Market Forecast: EMEA Supply Chain Management Applications Forecast, 2026–2030

Bo Lykkegaard — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation provides the five-year forecast for the supply chain management applications market and delivers insights into the drivers and inhibitors of growth.

“Supply chain visibility has moved from a competitive advantage to a compliance requirement, as EU sustainability reporting rules turn traceability into a mandatory capability rather than an optional one,” says Bo Lykkegaard, associate vice president, Software Research Europe, IDC. “The vendors that win this cycle will be those that can prove resilience gains without adding to the integration burden that already slows deployment across fragmented, multitier supply chains,” he adds.

Market Forecast: Worldwide Cloud-Native Engineering Software Forecast, 2026–2030

George Mironescu — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation provides a five-year forecast for the worldwide cloud-native engineering software market and delivers insights into the drivers and inhibitors of growth.

It examines market growth across various areas and highlights the key developments driving the growth, along with strategic implications and actions for technology vendors.

“Cloud native is the bedrock for AI — without it, shipping AI workloads at scale isn’t viable. To enable this, organizations are doubling down on maturing their cloud-native delivery engines, sharpening their focus on operating elastic, secure, and GPU-optimized environments.” — George Mironescu, associate research director, Software Development, Delivery, and Engineering, IDC

Market Forecast: Worldwide Global StorageSphere Structured and Unstructured Data Forecast, 2026-2030

Adam Wright — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides the five-year forecast for the worldwide Global StorageSphere structured and unstructured data market and delivers insights into the drivers and inhibitors of growth.

“The structured versus unstructured data debate is no longer just a storage conversation,” says Adam Wright, senior research manager, IDC’s Global DataSphere and Global StorageSphere research. “It’s an AI readiness conversation. Enterprises sitting on vast lakes of unstructured content are realizing that without proper governance, tagging, and retrieval infrastructure, that data is merely potential, not value.”

Market Share: Worldwide Human Capital Management Applications Shares, 2025

Zachary Chertok, Leonardo Freitas, Abhinav Shrivastava — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation examines the 2025 market shares of the leading vendors in the human capital management applications market.

The human capital management (HCM) applications market grew significantly in 2025 as organizations shifted from passive and responsive GenAI tools to autonomous and proactive agentic workflows. Specialized AI agents began actively planning, analyzing, and executing end-to-end HR processes with humans-in-the-loop for oversight and output verifications ahead of incorporating insights into broader, cross-functional decision frameworks. Growth in the HCM applications market was primarily driven by autonomous workflow optimization, skills-based mobility and continuous talent placement, “always on” self-service and AI-driven digital accessibility, and ecosystem platform integration and data extensibility.

“The HCM applications market is expanding rapidly as AI unlocks new value for buyers and vendors. As the primary interface between employees and the enterprise digital ecosystem, HCM leads digital agency adoption and drives continuous investment in AI advancement and organizational transformation.” — Zachary Chertok, senior research manager, Employee Experience, IDC