
ISO 20022 is rapidly becoming the financial messaging standard, with projects in many countries and in many payment rails. One of the most signi…
ISO 20022 is rapidly becoming the financial messaging standard, with projects in many countries and in many payment rails. One of the most signi…
Fraud continues to challenge the payments industry. In a recent survey of our banking contacts, we asked the participants about their payments p…
Over three weeks in September 2022, Celent Banking team ran an online survey where we invited our contacts in the industry – clients and non-cli…
Geopolitical and economic waves have shocked markets around the world. In a period of disrupted supply chains, accelerating inflation, and risin…
Faced with historically high inflation and energy bills, increasing interest rates, and continued geopolitical and economic uncertainty, consume…
Celent has been extolling the benefits of payment processing in the cloud for more than 15 years, yet little progress has been made. However, as…
Well, I was wrong, as were most of the industry, but I suspect we’re largely happy nevertheless. I refer to the announcement, finally, on June 2…
2022 will be a critical year in corporate banking. With the impact of the pandemic now largely behind us and today’s customer expectations now c…
Winners in corporate and commercial banking are leaping ahead of the competition by leveraging technology to accelerate digital innovation and g…
While banks in Europe have been using ISO 20022 for SEPA schemes for a decade now, despite what non-European banks may think, it doesn't mean th…
Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal reported that large banks in the US are considering whether to expand the Zelle network into merchant payment…
IndusInd Bank was struggling to cope with the hypergrowth that Indian payments are seeing, with one system, UPI, growing nationally 14 billion t…
Recently the New York Times wrote an article entitle Fraud is Flourishing with Zelle: Banks Say it is Not Their Problem. As you’d imagine, it wa…
For transaction banking, the sharp downturn in interest rates in 2020 led to a collapse of net interest income on deposits and effectively wiped…
Transaction banking, including cash management and payments, has been hit hard over the past 18 months. A sharp downturn in interest rates in 20…
Geopolitical and economic waves have shocked markets around the world. In a period of disrupted supply chains, accelerating inflation, and risin…
2022 will be a critical year in corporate banking. With the impact of the pandemic now largely behind us and today’s customer expectations now c…
For transaction banking, the sharp downturn in interest rates in 2020 led to a collapse of net interest income on deposits and effectively wiped…
For transaction banking, the sharp downturn in interest rates in 2020 led to a collapse of net interest income on deposits and effectively wiped…
Transaction banking, including cash management and payments, has been hit hard over the past 18 months. A sharp downturn in interest rates in 20…
Wholesale banks are delivering high returns. A decade of structural changes in the Markets and IBD businesses has led to more efficient balance…
In the Fall of 2020, Celent launched its “Future of Cloud in Financial Services” research hub, highlighting our coverage of advances in financia…
At least $17 trillion is trapped in accounts payable worldwide. This big number represents a huge opportunity in working capital financing. Wher…
The 2020 edition of Oliver Wyman's annual report with Morgan Stanley offers an overview of industry trends and analysis in wholesale banking.The…
Celent recognizes Citias the winner of the 2020 Celent Model Bank Award for Trade Finance and Supply Chain for its initiative Next Generational…
Our parent firm, Oliver Wyman (OW), is closely monitoring COVID-19 events in real-time and has compiled resources to help clients and the indust…
THREE EXTERNAL FORCES DRIVING CORPORATE BANKING CHANGE Corporate bankers face a 2020 landscape shaped by three powerful external forces: Corpora…
Earlier this year I wrote a blog "US Corporate Real-Time Payment (RTP) Adoption: If You Build It, Will They Come?" discussing how at the 2019 NA…
According to the International Monetary Fund, Asia accounts for nearly two-thirds of global growth, and the region remains the world’s most dyna…
In 2017 Celent published its leading-edge Connected Corporate Banking series, identifying the digital strategies transforming corporate banking…
Significant innovation is occurring in product management in the insurance industry. Carriers are looking to grow, differentiate themselves, nav…
Significant innovation is occurring in product management in the North American region. Carriers are looking to grow, differentiate themselves,…
Customers and the industries we serve are always at the heart of the insurance business. For the most part increased digitisation and innovation…
Stand-alone rating engines are used for a variety of reasons — but primarily to externalize the rates, rules, and logic associated with rating f…
Stand-alone rating engines are used for a variety of reasons — but primarily to externalize the rates, rules, and logic associated with rating f…
System decisions are complicated. In this report, targeted at both the buyer and the seller, Celent discusses how to manage the process of comin…
A focus on the insurance ecosystem, the role of digital, innovation, and InsurTech. I had the great pleasure of attending DIA Munich 2018 . As a…
With the fight for new customers growing more and more competitive, carriers continue to look for new ways of differentiation through their prod…
In January this year I posted a blog, If 2017 Was the Year of Insurtech, Will 2018 be the Year of the Insurance Platform? The blog pointed out t…
In recent years, financial institutions have sought to lower AML compliance costs—and increase the effectiveness of their compliance programs—by…
Recorded on October 27th, 2022 Geopolitical and economic headwinds, following straight on the heels of the pandemic, highlight the need for resi…
Previsory is a portmanteau word coined by Celent to describe a forward-looking view of technology, and advice on how to respond to and leverage…
Geopolitical and economic headwinds, following straight on the heels of the pandemic, highlight the need for resilience and agility in Risk func…
Adverse media monitoring has grown from its origins as a filter for politically exposed persons (PEPs) to an effective means for uncovering an e…
The pandemic and the Ukraine crisis have unleashed an age of perpetual black swan effects, from supply chain disruptions to inflation. But the p…
Since black swan events are by definition unpredictable, risk and compliance needs to always be ready to handle them. This requires agility in t…
Anti-money laundering operations are challenged by regulatory risk due to false negatives (missed suspicious cases) as well as inefficiencies du…
Financial institutions are increasingly looking to build and maintain sustainable Anti-Financial Crime (“AFC”) programs that can adapt to variou…
Anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CTF) programs are designed around a decade-old compliance-focused model that acts a…
The last 24 months have seen tectonic shifts in cloud adoption and openness to the cloud in financial services. The forces of digitalization, in…
At Celent’s annual Innovation and Insight event, we assembled experts (Dan Tannebaum, Paul Mee, Jamie MacGregor, Rob Norris and Gareth Lodge) fr…
Anti-money laundering (AML) compliance continues to face challenges of efficiency and efficacy. Recent advances in data and analytics can be lev…
With an emerging economy reliant on international, cross-border trade and transactions, Vietnamese banks must operate in line with global indust…
Congratulations to Celent's Model Risk Manager 2022 Award winners: ABN AMRO, BNP Paribas S.A., DBS Bank, Fincare Small Finance Bank, Forcht Bank…