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Financial Inclusion: A Look into Challenges and Priorities for Latin America 7 December 2018 Webinar Stephen Greer and Juan Mazzini
Latin America and the Caribbean have exceedingly high populations of unbanked and underbanked that stymie growth and development throughout the r…
Digital Commoditization in the Era of Amazon 4 December 2018 Blog Stephen Greer
The battle for market share and organic growth in banking is a long and difficult road. According to the FDIC Statistics on Depository Institutio…
Incumbents and Upstarts in AML Technology 30 November 2018 Blog Neil Katkov
We’ve just published the latest editions of Celent’s anti-money laundering vendor evaluation reports. After going through the 16 transaction moni…
From Open APIs to Open Banking, Part 3 29 November 2018 Blog Eiichiro Yanagawa
Financial services and financial institution businesses are highly contingent on the peculiarities of local financial regulations and systems. No…
Solutions for Watchlist Screening: 2018 ABCD Vendor View 29 November 2018 Report Neil Katkov
Watchlist screening has become the most-scrutinized area of AML compliance, and the area that has been hit with the most outsized fines by regula…
Next-Generation Portfolio & Investment Risk Capabilities (Part 4): Enterprise Edition 29 November 2018 Report Cubillas Ding
This report evaluates and ranks vendor solutions that support firmwide (enterprise level) risk management capabilities around firmwide risk aggre…
Blockchain Bonds 29 November 2018 Blog John Dwyer
Smart Blockchain Islamic Sukuk Abu Dhabi-headquartered Al Hilal Bank settled a $500 million Islamic bond on a blockchain. The bond will be sharia…
MBA and Celent: Technology Spending Survey 2018, Loan Origination Process 28 November 2018 Webinar Craig Focardi
Mortgage technology innovation and IT investment opportunities continue to grow as the industry strives to digitize its front office customer eng…
Banking ITS Providers in Flux: The Transition to Long-Term Partnerships (2018 North American Provider Spectrum) 28 November 2018 Report Stephen Greer
The market for IT services is evolving dramatically as the priorities of institutions shift towards high-value partnerships. Ninety percent of Fo…
Banking ITS Providers in Flux: The Transition to Long-Term Partnerships (EMEA Spectrum Edition) 28 November 2018 Report Stephen Greer
The market for IT services is evolving dramatically as the priorities of institutions shift towards high-value partnerships. Ninety percent of Fo…
Next-Generation Risk Assessment: Cyber and Beyond 28 November 2018 Report Donald Light
To be successful, an insurer has to correctly estimate the probability of losses. To do that, the insurer collects information about risks and ot…
From Open APIs to Open Banking, Part 2 27 November 2018 Blog Eiichiro Yanagawa
Open API Threats Security Measures and User Protection From a systems perspective, open APIs mean that a new communications path is being establi…
Connected Corporate Banking in Asia-Pacific 27 November 2018 Report Patricia Hines
Celent sought to understand APAC corporate banking, drilling into operating income performance, segment revenue, technology trends, and opportuni…
Next-Generation Portfolio and Investment Risk Capabilities (Part 3): Front Office Edition 26 November 2018 Report Cubillas Ding and Dennis Kong
This is the third report in the Next-Generation Portfolio and Investment Risk Capabilities series. This research evaluates and ranks front office…
A New Financial System of Digital Assets 26 November 2018 Blog John Dwyer
I recently published an article on the future of digital assets in CIO magazine--the full text is below. Bitcoin Bitcoin is now approaching its t…