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Completing the Legacy to Modern Transformation 31 August 2020 Blog Max Ang
Conversations in innovation strategy deployments has seen plug-and-play and APIs as the common solution for shipping and serving modular contain…
Survive to Thrive ― Your Compass for the New Normal 30 August 2020 Blog Eiichiro Yanagawa
WE STRIVE TO GUIDE OUR CLIENTS AS THEY NAVIGATE THESE UNCHARTERED WATERS In times like these, having a trusted partner by your side to help navi…
Four Priorities for Corporate Banks in 2020: Navigating Choppy Seas 30 August 2020 Blog
This article first appeared as a blog on LinkedIn As most of the northern hemisphere departs for well-deserved summer breaks after an extraordin…
Top Trends in Corporate Payments: Key Imperatives for the Payments Industry, 2020 Edition 30 August 2020 Report Gareth Lodge
Celent’s reports on trends in retail banking, corporate banking, payments, and IT spending are regular fixtures on our research agendas and are…
EMEA Life Policy Administration System Deal Trends 27 August 2020 Report Nicolas Michellod
While changing, the EMEA life policy administration system market is still highly fragmented. Insurers looking for life policy administration sy…
Commercial Insurance: Who Will Buy Direct and Why? 27 August 2020 Webinar Karlyn Carnahan
With the continued expansion of online shopping of commercial insurance, the question many insurers are asking is – should we participate? Are s…
Integrated Insurance Ecosystem: The Next Generation Insurer 25 August 2020 Report Max Ang
As we come to grips with the events at the turn of a new decade, there is never a better opportunity to re-imagine current business processes an…
Something for Everyone: Three Types of Insurance Platform Ecosystems 25 August 2020 Report Donald Light
This report focuses on the growth and evolution of certain platform elements: third party solutions that are generally not developed and maintai…
Stepping Up Against Authorized Fraud: Strengthening Trust in the Payments Process 23 August 2020 Report Gareth Lodge
Why should banks care about authorised fraud? While many banks will feel some sympathy if their client was impacted by fraud, unless the bank w…
Infosys and Stater: Mortgage BPaaS Solutions 18 August 2020 Report Craig Focardi
The mortgage lending industry is in turmoil for the second time in only a decade as the coronavirus has increased loan delinquencies and affecte…
Public Cloud Adoption in Banking 18 August 2020 Report Craig Focardi and Stephen Greer
Public cloud adoption has been growing steadily in many industries. Financial institution (FI) cloud adoption has been slower, though, because t…
NextGen Balance Sheet Management and ALM: Vendor ABCD 17 August 2020 Report Cubillas Ding
Globally, the financial environment remains in an ultra-low interest rate environment and there is a high probability that interest rates will r…
NAV Oversight & Contingency 17 August 2020 Report Brad Bailey and Cubillas Ding
During the first half of this year, Celent conducted in-depth conversations with global asset managers about their back office NAV oversight and…
Excellence in Accounts Receivable Services Becomes a Must Have for Banks 17 August 2020 Blog Alenka Grealish and Bob Meara
The repercussions of COVID-19 have catapulted working capital optimization to the top of the priority list at banks’ commercial customers. As pa…
Getting Past the "Gelato Syndrome" 15 August 2020 Blog Marty Ellingsworth
My last blog, "Data Science is Gelato...", both struck a chord, and hit a few nerves, while causing quite a stir across the industry. Thank you…