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Generation Z: The Next (Gen) Opportunity for Wealth Managers 28 May 2019 Blog Ashley Longabaugh
Life stages, rather than distinct generational differences, will ultimately be the driver behind the relationship between an individual and thei…
Digital Assets & Decentralized Capitalism 27 May 2019 Blog John Dwyer
Digital Assets and Their Implications for Portfolio Construction Last week I attended and presented at the CFA Institute’s 72nd Annual Conferenc…
ResearchTech Heats Up, Even as Research Budgets Shrink 23 May 2019 Blog David Easthope
Liquidnet’s acquisition of RSRCHXchange is a harbinger of increased focus and attention on buy side research management systems and related fint…
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…
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 rem…
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 provi…
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 le…
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…
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 7…
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 th…
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 M…
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 techn…
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…
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 techn…
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 investiga…