It is my privilege to be part of the judging panel for Celent Model Bank Awards for 2017 for the following three categories:
- Fraud Management and Cybersecurity – for the most creative and effective approach to fraud management or cybersecurity.
- Risk Management – for the most impressive initiative to improve enterprise risk management.
- Process Automation – for the most effective deployment of technology to automate business processes or decision-making.
A common theme across this year’s submissions for the above categories is the importance of agile technology, digital process automation, and consistent and focused practices across the organizations. A large number of the entries show that a streamlined and automated operational risk framework is critical to run a successful risk management program. Everything connects and has a consequence and unless banks can join the risk dots across their ecosystems, they will continue to spend at a very high rate with unsatisfactory and, at times, devastating results.
Improved data analysis and machine learning capabilities also featured prominently in the winning case studies. A central data platform, automated processes and improved insights have produced notable increases in efficiency, better control of costs, reduced resourcing requirements, reduced errors and false positives and have made it easier for the banks to adapt to their digital footprint, an expanding cyber threat landscape, and intense and complex regulatory obligations.
Hopefully, no flubs on the big day
Without exception, every submission is of a high-quality and we found it a daunting task to pick the most worthy award recipients. In the end, we are excited and confident about our selection of winners in the above categories, yet we are sorry that we could not recognize so many others that clearly also deserve recognition.
At the moment we are staying tight-lipped about who won the awards. We will be announcing all winners publicly on April 4 at our 2017 Innovation & Insight Day in Boston. In addition to presenting the award trophies to the winners, Celent analysts will be discussing broader trends we’ve seen across all nominations and will share our perspectives why we chose those particular initiatives as winners. Make sure you reserve your slot here while there are still spaces available!
