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The SECURE Act 29 May 2020 Report Keith Raymond
The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act, also known as the SECURE Act, was signed into law on Dec. 20 by President Donald…
COVID Impact to Life Sales and Distribution 29 May 2020 Blog Keith Raymond
In a recent Oliver Wyman study on the impact of COVID stay-at-home guidelines on individual spending habits, they found what most might have gue…
Wealth Management Outsourcing: Opportunities and Obstacles 28 May 2020 Report Neil Sheehan
Wealth management firms use outsourcing as a cost-cutting measure, and adoption has tended to accelerate in times of lackluster market condition…
Cross Asset Trading Solutions 28 May 2020 Report Brad Bailey
Celent explores the opportunities and challenges of the morphing sell side front office in this cross asset trading technology piece. The advent…
Tech-Driven Next-Gen Capital Market: Opening Platforms for the Greenfield 27 May 2020 Blog Eiichiro Yanagawa
The year 2020 has been a year of coming to grips with COVID-19. This new reality is prompting a fundamental rethinking of all aspects of life an…
The New Work Order: Opportunities for Wealth Managers in the Age of COVID-19 27 May 2020 Report William Trout
It took just a few days this March for a booming US economy to stop in its tracks, and a few weeks to end a 10-year bull market. As markets crat…
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…
The Big Shift: How Infosys BPM Can Help Clients Prepare For The LIBOR Transition 26 May 2020 Report Brad Bailey and Andrew Schwartz
The clock is ticking for financial institutions (FIs) to adequately prepare for the seismic shift from the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR)…
Analytic Strategy Execution – Insurer Practices and Priorities 26 May 2020 Report Marty Ellingsworth
Data, AI, and cloud are growing areas of IT and business emphasis across the world. These trends are accelerating now especially as digitization…
Celent Risk and Compliance Briefing 22 May 2020 Blog Neil Katkov and Arin Ray
Financial Crime Compliance in The Year of COVID-19 How are financial criminals exploiting the pandemic and how are financial firms responding to…
Fenergo's Remote Account Opening Solution: Expediting Client Onboarding During COVID-19 and Beyond 21 May 2020 Report Arin Ray
The COVID-19 pandemic has severely disrupted public health and economic health of societies across the world. In response, local, regional, and…
AI in the UI: Adoption, Use Cases, and Business Cases 18 May 2020 Report Bob Meara and Alenka Grealish
AI will transform the UI and in turn customer engagement. To track the progress in banking, Celent launched its inaugural AI in the UI Request f…
Greenwashing of the ESG Industry: Using ML to Demystify ESG Fund Ratings 15 May 2020 Blog Ashley Longabaugh
Environmental, Social, and Governance (“ESG”) investing has gained interest from all investor types, perhaps led by the millennial client, over…
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…
Revisiting COVID-19, the US P&C Industry Financials, and Tech Spending 14 May 2020 Blog Donald Light
On March 29 I did a webinar on “COVID-19, The Economy, The P&C Industry, and Tech Spending”. The webinar’s subtitle is “Time is of the Essence.”…