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Apple’s long game in payments – incremental plays or Square ambitions? 7 August 2020 Blog Alenka Grealish
Based on Apple’s occasional big splashes in payments, incremental is the answer but a telling incremental. Apple is playing a long game in payme…
Big Banks, Bigger Techs? How policy-makers could respond to a probable discontinuity 23 July 2020 Report
The banking sector is facing the formidable challenge of responding to COVID-related changes to customer behavior and the adverse impact of econ…
Digital Onboarding: No longer a question of when but how soon 13 July 2020 Blog Alenka Grealish
Shelter-in-place and attendant work from home have been a litmus test for the state of digitization at banks. Those in the vanguard have fared r…
Community Banks After the Pandemic 6 July 2020 Blog | Podcast Craig Focardi and Stephen Greer
Craig Focardi and Stephen Greer sit down to discuss some of the potential opportunities for community banks coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic.…
Recap of Model Award Programs 2020 28 June 2020 Blog Eiichiro Yanagawa
Experience Celent's Flagship Event in Japanese: I&I Day Online Everyone involved with financial technology knows that flexibility is paramount…
The Emergence of the Research Management Systems (RMS) in Japan 28 June 2020 Blog Eiichiro Yanagawa
The re-emergence of RMS will be the nerve center for capital markets players amid post-pandemic uncertainty. Now is the time to maximize emergin…
Loan Forbearance and Mortgage Collections: 22 June 2020 Blog Craig Focardi
June 19, 2020 Craig Focardi Amid unprecedented job loss and economic decline during a two-month period, COVID-19 has led to numerous economic st…
Survive to Thrive Data Blog Series: The Expected vs Surprising Developments in Payments during COVID-19 18 June 2020 Blog Zilvinas Bareisis
Last week we published a report on the impact of COVID-19 on payments. It looks not only at the devastating effect the pandemic had on some paym…
How Financial Firms Must Adapt to the COVID-19 Era 18 June 2020 Blog Daniel W. Latimore
How have technology priorities changed within financial services as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic? It’s easy to assume that financial instit…
Survive to Thrive Data Blog Series: Consumer Saving During COVID-19 and the PFM Opportunity 12 June 2020 Blog Stephen Greer
I recently noticed some interesting data published by MX which looked at some changes in consumer behavior during the pandemic. A few points on…
Survive to Thrive Data Blog Series: Retail Banking's New Normal 7 June 2020 Blog Bob Meara
There is still much we do not yet know regarding COVID-19’s long-term impact. Yet, there appears to be a growing consensus that banking – indeed…
COVID-19 Impact on FIs’ IT Plans in Japan/ APAC 31 May 2020 Blog Eiichiro Yanagawa
In the transitional period from the unprecedented emergency to the new normal, the Japanese and APAC financial institutions have stepped up thei…
The Banking Team Discusses the Effects of COVID-19 28 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,…
Survive to Thrive Data Blog Series: 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…
Survive to Thrive Data Blog Series: 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…