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The Digitization of Everything 16 May 2019 Blog William Trout
It is today axiomatic that technology, its ubiquity fueled by the API and the Cloud based platform, is a lever for innovative startups to catch o…
Intelligent Automation: A New Frontier in Capital Markets Operations 14 May 2019 Blog Arin Ray
The pursuit for improving automation levels goes back a long time in the capital markets. Success has been achieved in some areas, but a lot rema…
What's New in the European Wealth Management Front-to-Back Office Vendor Market? 9 May 2019 Blog Ashley Longabaugh
I look forward to continuing my research of the front-to-back office wealth management vendor landscape and understanding how the platform provid…
AI in AML: From Experimentation to Operationalization 8 May 2019 Blog Arin Ray
Early last year we predicted 2018 to be a critical year for operationalization and wider adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine lea…
Key Areas of Growth for the US Retail, Self-Directed Brokerage Market 30 April 2019 Blog Ashley Longabaugh
In our latest report, US Self-Directed Market: The Evolving Marketplace and Associated Impact, Will and I discuss the outlook for the US retail b…
No Longer SciFi – Leveraging AI in Capital Markets Operations 25 April 2019 Blog David Easthope
I am looking forward to participating in a partner workshop panel at SIFMA’s Operations Conference & Exhibition this year in Boca Raton on May 7t…
Client Reporting - A Missed Opportunity for Wealth Managers? 24 April 2019 Blog Ashley Longabaugh
Client reporting is not new to the wealth management industry - wealth managers are required to provide portfolio and investment reporting to the…
Winners of the 2019 Model Asset Manager and Model Wealth Manager Awards 12 April 2019
Celent recognizes 6 winners for the 2nd annual Model Asset Manager and Model Wealth Manager awards.In 2018 Celent introduced the Model Wealth Ma…
Reconfiguration of the buy side value chain and the recent Blackrock / EFront transaction 24 March 2019 Blog Cubillas Ding
We did a series of webinars, in-person presentations, and vendor solution reports recently around the asset management investment and risk techno…
Forward Thinking with Celent — Enterprise Tokens 15 March 2019 Blog John Dwyer
Facebook Coin The market has been speculating about Facebook’s blockchain strategy in recent weeks. Indeed, Barclays’ internet analyst reported t…
Featured Analyst: David Easthope 14 March 2019 Blog David Easthope
David Easthope is the Head of Capital Markets and has been with Celent for over seven years. When he's not busy advising clients on their techno…
Automating AML is not a pipe dream. 3 March 2019 Blog Neil Katkov
The end-game of anti-money laundering operations will, logically, be a fully automated process whereby monitoring and screening, alert investigat…
10 APAC Conferences: 2018 in Review, Part 2 24 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…
Can YOU Pass the Initial Margin Test? 22 February 2019 Blog Neil Katkov
The G-20 mandates are the gift that keeps on giving. Initial Margin (IM) is the latest installment in regulations aimed at reducing risk in OTC d…
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…