Enabling Confident Technology Decisions in Financial Services
Celent is the leading research and advisory firm focused on technology for financial institutions globally.
Technology Trends Previsory
We’ve sifted through the noise and the hype to help you identify and prioritize the trends to watch. We’re looking forward intentionally to help you develop a perspective and potential technology plan. We hope that this series of previsory webinars and reports expands your horizons and sparks new ideas.
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You can now follow a shortlisting process to find your optimal technology partner in less than an hour! Manage your RFI projects, download data, and contact vendors directly through our platform.
Model Awards 2023
Our Model Awards highlight financial institution initiatives with the best use of technology in Banking, Insurance, Wealth Management, Risk & Compliance, Buy Side and Sell Side. The Awards are designed to answer the deceptively simple question: What would it look like for a firm to do everything right with today’s technology?
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Upcoming Celent events
Celent's events include its flagship, annual Innovation & Insight Day, along with a selection of webinars and briefings led by our research analysts. These sessions offer expert opinions as our teams examine existing and future trends in functionality and technology in financial services.
Join us for our London Insurance Event on October 4th! It is an invite only event, exclusive for insurers and free to attend, to have an opportu…
Meet up with Celent analysts Patricia Hines, Gareth Lodge, Dayle Scher, Alenka Grealish, and Kieran Hines at Sibos 2022! Sibos brings together t…
Eiichiro Yanagawa will be speaking on "E-Invoicing in Japan: Innovation Opportunities from a Treasurer’s Perspective." Competition and co-creati…
Meet up with Patricia Hines and Colin Kerr at the annual AFP conference. AFP 2022 is taking place in Philadelphia — a city positively bursting a…
Model Awards Program
Celebrating the effective use of technology in financial services
Our Model Awards highlight financial institution initiatives with the best use of technology in Banking, Insurance, Wealth Management, Risk & Compliance, Buy Side and Sell Side. The Awards are designed to answer the deceptively simple question: What would it look like for a firm to do everything right with today’s technology?
Nominations for our 2023 program are now open. The submission deadline is October 14, 2022.
Celent news
Advisory firm Celent recently referred to corporate-to-bank channel connectivity as a critical enabler for businesses as they expand. Applicatio…
A Recent Celent study found 44% of US Securities Firms do not plan on retiring their mainframe(s). “Both mainframes and legacy technology have b…
By Craig Focardi, Principal Analyst, Celent. Banking and financial markets are beginning to feel the effects of inflation and rising interest ra…
By Bob Meara, Senior Analyst, Celent. This perspective on the evolution of retail delivery technology in banking is decidedly wrong. A June 2022…