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The Banking Team Discusses the Effects of COVID-19 29 May 2020 Blog | Podcast Craig Focardi, Alenka Grealish, Stephen Greer, and Gareth Lodge
Senior Analysts Gareth Lodge, Craig Focardi, and Alenka Grealish join host Stephen Greer to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on payments, lending,…
Acceleration of Digital in Corporate Banking 26 May 2020 Blog Alenka Grealish
As banks' commercial and corporate clients scramble to the work from home model and follow business continuity plans, there has been acceleratio…
Insights on Shifting Retail Banking Customer Needs 15 May 2020 Blog Alenka Grealish
Retail bankers have been trying to understand rapidly shifting customer needs in the face of COVID-19. Here are some insightful data points from…
Offerings and Technologies That are Enabling and Powering Data Science in Financial Institutions 13 May 2020 Blog Cubillas Ding
Celent recently released a body of COVID-19 response related resources and perspectives, and this includes my recent report pertaining to the ex…
Building Client Trust from the Starting Gate 28 April 2020 Blog Alenka Grealish
In a “business-as-usual” environment, digital onboarding transformation is a challenging undertaking. While it should involve sprints, overall,…
COVID-19 and Operationalizing the SBA's Paycheck Protection Program: Technology Providers to the Rescue 28 April 2020 Blog Patricia Hines, CTP
Loan application submissions under the SBA's Paycheck Protection Program (part of the US CARES Act) started slowly as lenders waited for clarifi…
Lessons Learned from Celent’s I&I Day 21 April 2020 Blog Nick Bockh
Celent’s Innovation & Insight (I&I) Day—a deep dive into key financial services technology themes and case studies—took on an entirely new forma…
Announcing Celent Model Bank 2020 Award Winners 15 April 2020 Blog Zilvinas Bareisis
Today we are announcing the winners of Celent Model Bank 2020 Awards. Our annual Model Bank program was launched 13 years ago and recognizes fin…
Adapting to the New Normal 9 April 2020 Blog Eiichiro Yanagawa
Lockdowns Spreading throughout APAC On March 17, the Heritage Foundation, a U.S. think tank, declared Singapore the "freest economy" in the worl…
COVID-19 has unleashed a new low in financial crime 3 April 2020 Blog Neil Katkov
We are likely entering a prolonged period of heightened vulnerability to fraud and other financial crime due to criminal activity exploiting COV…
Working from home with five young kids 31 March 2020 Blog Tom Scales
I am sure you’ve been reading about Working from Home and how to make the experience work. Maybe you work from home occasionally. Maybe you even…
Emerging Technology and the Rise of Alternative Infrastructure in Retail Payment 30 March 2020 Blog Eiichiro Yanagawa
Many retailers in Japan are small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Growing sales is a top priority for businesses. At the same time, as smal…
Emerging Technology and the Rise of Alternative Infrastructure in Wholesale Payment 29 March 2020 Blog Eiichiro Yanagawa
Countries and regions around the world are accelerating implementing advancements in financial market infrastructure (FMI). These efforts go bey…
Oliver Wyman: Eight Actions for Corporate Treasurers in the Pandemic 23 March 2020 Blog Patricia Hines, CTP
Our parent firm, Oliver Wyman (OW), is closely monitoring COVID-19 events in real-time and has compiled resources to help clients and the indust…
How is your company handling the rush to Work from Home (WFH)? 23 March 2020 Blog Keith Raymond
Businesses are being amazingly adaptable to the COVID-19 crisis, what will the social implications be to virtualizing and isolating the workforc…