
Client onboarding continues to be a significant pain point for advisors. And new account opening (NAO) is arguably one of the most inefficient a…
Client onboarding continues to be a significant pain point for advisors. And new account opening (NAO) is arguably one of the most inefficient a…
This report combines Celent's Banking and Wealth Management research and explains a landscape of technologies that can support better service to…
Most onboarding solutions, whether built by a bank or solution provider, focus on a broad set of processes across sales automation, know-your-cu…
This report is a companion piece to the Global IT report and focuses solely on North American Wealth Management IT Spending which includes Canad…
With the introduction of ChatGPT, large language models (LLMs) have become a significant part of the AI landscape due to their ability to revolu…
Merrill Advisor Match uses a preference-based matching formula to personalize the way prospective clients find, research, review, and connect wi…
The science of artificial intelligence is complicated. The technologies or sub domains that make up AI such as machine learning and natural lang…
Celent is pleased to award Bernstein Private Wealth Management ("Bernstein”) with the 2023 Celent Model Wealth Manager Award for Essential and E…
Digitizing commercial customer onboarding is like using starting blocks in a sprint. It improves performance along numerous dimensions and gener…
Summary In-depth personalization experiences rely on relevant user data, unifying their engagement channels, and creating segments to build firs…
It is well known that advisors spend an inordinate amount of time on non-revenue producing and non-client facing activities. These include admin…
Our upcoming report Advisor Productivity: What’s Technology Got To Do, Got To Do With It? reveals that financial advisors spend an inordinate am…
Experiencing product value before purchase drives growth—Product-Led Growth:PLG •This is a primer for those who are not so familiar with Product…
As banks chart their course through the imperative of digital transformation, one increasingly common approach is to launch a digital bank on a…
Investment Culture Has Rooted in Japan, However Spread of Open APIs Is Slower than Expected In Japan, a country with a large amount of personal…
Over the past decade, institutional investors’ quest for higher returns and portfolio diversification in an era of low interest rates and favora…
This report is a companion piece to the Global IT report and focuses solely on North American Wealth Management IT Spending which includes Canad…
On 27 Apr 2023, Deutsche Boerse announced a takeover of SimCorp to combine its existing data & analytics subsidiaries Qontigo and ISS under the…
As investment firms and investors contemplate how to integrate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues into their investing decisions…
Profound shifts born from the wave of regulatory, capital, passive investing, and fee compression trends are continuing to alter the investment…
The demand for applications is growing faster than the supply of developers to deliver them. A new era of low/no-code development is emerging, w…
Last month I was honored to participate in the TradeTech FX annual conference in Miami, FL, and to assist by hosting a keynote interview and mod…
Driven by the imperative for sustainable cost savings and profitability, investment managers are renewing their focus to double down on their co…
Despite largely positive AUM growth, sustained growth in active investment remains elusive due to the onslaught of secular headwind factors and…
The fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic is likely to have ramifications in a number of areas within capital markets, for example shift to remote wo…
The world had a tough 2020 but, unlike the 2008 financial markets crisis, this time capital markets emerged as the hero as governments worldwide…
Celent research shows that pandemic effects are acting as a catalyst to change imperatives across the investment operations value chain. Specifi…
Investment accounting represents a critical back office function for investment managers, insurers, and corporates—especially when intertwined w…
Shifting end-user demands toward fewer strategic vendor relationships are pressuring vendors to connect more broadly with other providers. Throu…
New requirements spanning multiple regulatory, tax, and accounting regimes— nuanced by strategy, fund type, investor segment and asset class— ar…