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Platform Wars: End-to-end, Portfolio Management, and Point Systems Face Off 23 August 2019 Report William Trout
The advantages of scale and integration long enjoyed by end-to-end wealth management platform vendors are under assault by the shift to digitiza…
Applying Advanced Analytics In AML: Tools And Techniques For Improving Efficiency And Effectiveness 20 August 2019 Report Arin Ray
Rather than thinking of them as a single solution that fixes all problems, AI solutions should be viewed as a toolkit with different capabilitie…
Navigating the life and health policy administration system landscape 18 August 2019 Blog Nicolas Michellod
The policy administration system market is increasingly complex and going through interesting changes. Indeed, there are trends that we have ide…
Payment Infrastructure Trends in Japan 18 August 2019 Blog Eiichiro Yanagawa
As the first installment of this series on payment infrastructure, Part 1 of this report examined developments in the retail payments infrastruc…
Webinar | The Implications of Digital Assets for Portfolio Construction 16 August 2019 Webinar John Dwyer
Join us for this is encore performance of Research Director John Dwyer's recent presentation at the CFA Institute's Annual conference addressing…
Unsung No More: The New World of Corporate Actions - Avoiding Errors While Generating Alpha 16 August 2019 Report Neil Sheehan
A failure to elect on a corporate action due to an operational error can hurt the beneficiary financially. This exposes the firm to scrutiny abo…
Payment Infrastructure Trends in Japan, Part 1: Extended Operating Hours and Zengin EDI System (ZEDI) 14 August 2019 Report Eiichiro Yanagawa
The first in this series on payment infrastructure, this report examines developments in the retail payments infrastructure related to the exten…
Unsung No More: The New World of Corporate Actions - Avoiding Errors While Generating Alpha 14 August 2019 Blog Neil Sheehan
With a more relaxed US regulatory climate, tax reform and growing cash reserves more public companies are building strategic growth through merg…
Celent Has Re-Rethought the End of Auto Insurance 13 August 2019 Blog Donald Light
I spend a certain amount of time in Palo Alto. For a while now, a common sight has been Waymo vehicles (with a safety driver) tooling around tow…
European Wealth Management Technology Vendors: Evaluating Front-to-Back Office Vendors 13 August 2019 Report Ashley Longabaugh
This report examines the leading European vendors of front-to-back office wealth management platforms available in Europe, the Middle East and A…
Re-Rethinking the End of Auto Insurance 12 August 2019 Report Donald Light
Seven years ago, in May 2012, Celent did some thinking about: “What happens when there are (almost) no auto accidents?” Celent concluded: "This…
Dissecting A Couple of Recent Announcements by Nets 6 August 2019 Blog Zilvinas Bareisis
Yesterday, Nets, a large payments company in the Nordics, and Mastercard announced that "Mastercard has entered into agreement to acquire Nets'…
Corporate Actions Processing in the Digital Era: Leveraging Innovative Technology for Improving Efficiency 6 August 2019 Report Arin Ray
With growing volumes and complexities of corporate actions, intensifying regulatory scrutiny on transparency in corporate governance, and dimini…
Life & Health Insurance in Latin America 2019: The CIO Perspective 31 July 2019 Report Juan Mazzini
In our 6th annual review of CIO priorities and projects for Latin American insurers in Life and Health. Celent aims to answer: 1) What are the d…
A Recap of #TFITS 2019, Part 3: Emerging Technology Panel 30 July 2019 Blog Eiichiro Yanagawa
About TFITS Tokyo Financial Information & Technology Summit (TFITS) is the only event in Japan dedicated to IT, data, and operations executives…