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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…
From Open APIs to Open Banking, Part 1 12 November 2018 Blog Eiichiro Yanagawa
Returning to a global perspective, both US and European open API trends, as well as regulatory and market participant responses, are valuable ref…
Money20/20 USA: The Show that Keeps Delivering 12 November 2018 Blog Zilvinas Bareisis
Autumn is traditionally a very busy time for analysts – many of us are on the road attending various industry and client events. Many offer excel…
Corporate to Bank Integration: Keeping Pace with Today’s Demanding Requirements 9 November 2018 Blog Patricia Hines
Corporate to bank channel connectivity is a critical enabler for digital businesses of all sizes and industries. Corporate channels act as the di…
Featured Analyst: Bob Meara 30 October 2018 Blog Bob Meara
Bob Meara has been with Celent for more than a decade and is a seasoned analyst with deep expertise in receivables processing, remote deposit ca…
Morphing Industry, Morphing Crime... 30 October 2018 Blog Joan McGowan
Over the past ten years — we could even stretch back to the last two decades — financial crime management has undergone profound and costly struc…
Financial Crime Management's Broken System 24 October 2018 Blog Joan McGowan
I had the opportunity to present the AML keynote session at NICE Actimize’s Engage Client Conference in New York last week. My session looked at…
Featured Analyst: Eiichiro Yanagawa 15 October 2018 Blog Eiichiro Yanagawa
Eiichiro Yanagawa has been a lifelong analyst/researcher/consultant, and he continues to analyze the industry to propose innovations no matter wh…
Finovate Fall 2018: CX is King 8 October 2018 Blog Daniel Latimore
We’ve now got a little bit of distance from Finovate, held in New York on September 24-25. Others have written about the many individual companie…
From Moonshot to Reality: Artificial Intelligence in Action 1 October 2018 Blog Alenka Grealish
Two broad themes stood out at AIS 2018 Repositioning AI’s end game from replicating human brain to augmenting it And building AI for the grea…