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Introducing Celent Model Bank 2019 Awards 23 January 2019 Blog Zilvinas Bareisis
As regular readers of our blogs know, January is one of the most exciting months at Celent. The analyst teams are busy reviewing nominations for…
Where Are Firms Going Wrong? 17 January 2019 Blog Joan McGowan
Robotic process automation is a crunch technology that is relatively easy and quick to implement and promises a strong ROI, but a recent string o…
Fiserv Buys First Data 16 January 2019 Blog Zilvinas Bareisis
Earlier today Fiserv announced the acquisition of First Data in an all-stock transaction, implying the equity value for First Data of $22 billion…
Featured Analyst: Patricia Hines 11 January 2019 Blog Patricia Hines
Patricia Hines has over 20 years of experience in financial services across business, technology, and operations. When she's not busy helping cl…
Outpacing the Competition in Business Customer Engagement 8 January 2019 Blog Alenka Grealish
Excellence in customer engagement has become paramount for commercial bankers. A confluence of forces is pushing the engagement bar up: customer…
CLS Insights: Why big data matters in FX CLS 7 January 2019
The digital revolution has unleashed a wave of innovation in smart data and artificial intelligence (AI) that is greatly transforming the financi…
Featured Analyst: Joan McGowan 20 December 2018 Blog Joan McGowan
Joan McGowan has studied the many operational risks across the banking system for over 16 years. She has witnessed the profound and costly struc…
Tech giants 19 December 2018 Blog Zao Wu
It was an unsurprisingly sizzling day in Singapore, but a surprisingly fiery debate was going on. Most of those sitting seemed convinced that the…
Risk and Compliance: Our 2019 Research Themes 12 December 2018 Blog Neil Katkov
Building upon more than 15 years of experience in financial and operational risk management technology, Celent has recently launched an expanded Risk and Compliance…
Digital Commoditization in the Era of Amazon 4 December 2018 Blog Stephen Greer
The battle for market share and organic growth in banking is a long and difficult road. According to the FDIC Statistics on Depository Institutio…
Incumbents and Upstarts in AML Technology 30 November 2018 Blog Neil Katkov
We’ve just published the latest editions of Celent’s anti-money laundering vendor evaluation reports. After going through the 16 transaction moni…
From Open APIs to Open Banking, Part 3 29 November 2018 Blog Eiichiro Yanagawa
Financial services and financial institution businesses are highly contingent on the peculiarities of local financial regulations and systems. No…
From Open APIs to Open Banking, Part 2 27 November 2018 Blog Eiichiro Yanagawa
Open API Threats Security Measures and User Protection From a systems perspective, open APIs mean that a new communications path is being establi…
Brick and Mortar Customer Eccentricity -- What's Up with That? 26 November 2018 Blog Donald Light
“Brick and mortar” is a phrase going back around 20 years to the dawn of the generally available internet when web designers were looking for a w…
What if Amazon Entered Your Industry ... and stayed? 18 November 2018 Blog Zao Wu
Many senior leaders across financial services firms have asked what would happen if a tech giant like Amazon were to enter their industry tomorro…