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10 APAC Conferences: 2018 in Review, Part 1 21 February 2019 Blog Eiichiro Yanagawa
Spring comes along, and it's conference season again! Our conferences are always exciting and inspiring meeting places, where the participants en…
Solving the Brand Conundrum 19 February 2019 Blog Daniel Latimore
Brand – one of the most critical elements in financial technology today – can be both a blessing and a curse to financial institutions and their…
The Dangers of P2P Payments 15 February 2019 Blog Zilvinas Bareisis
Have you ever sent someone money via one of many available P2P services? Perhaps you used Zelle, which is offered by your bank? Or maybe you pref…
What Ever Happened to Omnichannel? 11 February 2019 Blog Bob Meara
Remember when omnichannel was a hot topic? No one seems to be talking about it anymore. Funny, the same thing happened with Big Data, Analytics,…
AFP Risk Survey: "The Majority of Treasury Departments Not Planning to Increase Use of Non-Traditional Vendors" 6 February 2019 Blog Patricia Hines
The Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) recently published its annual 2019 AFP Risk Survey Report. The survey, supported by Marsh & McL…
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…