2024/05/28
A recent survey conducted by Oliver Wyman indicates that retail investors have grown more comfortable with using generative AI (GenAI) for finan…
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2024/04/25The wealth management industry is on the cusp of transformation – a new paradigm is emerging - driven by advancements in technology. Over the ne…
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2024/04/25This report represents the second in the 2-part series “The New Wealth Management Paradigm – From Apps to Agents.” The wealth management industr…
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2024/03/21Morgan Stanley Wealth Management is bringing access to portfolio risk insights directly to its financial advisors, embedding risk management cap…
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2024/03/21For insurance and institutional clients, efficient portfolio optimization and operational agility from the standpoint of dynamic adaptation and…
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2024/03/20Morgan Stanley is the first major global wealth management firm to incorporate fractional share allocation as an integral component of its UMA a…
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2024/03/20Wealth management firms point to advisor workflow automation as one of the biggest opportunities for boosting productivity and freeing up adviso…
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2024/03/20OakNorth is integrating climate transition risk into portfolio risk management. ON Climate provides lenders the ability to assess climate transi…
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2024/03/12Can AI do more than just drive internal efficiencies in wealth management? According to one Canadian startup, AI can be the engine powering fina…
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2024/02/28Fractional share trading for equities and ETFs is not new. Widespread adoption of fractionals in mostly brokerage accounts were spurred on by th…
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2024/01/03Is the RIA industry being disrupted? After a monumental year from one late-stage WealthTech startup, the answer appears to be yes. WealthTech St…
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2023/12/15Private market asset managers were not immune from the post-pandemic, macroeconomic headwinds and recent market volatility – with operating marg…
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2023/10/31Elon Musk has long held a vision of developing a “super app” that offers a full suite of financial services. In a recent announcement to X.com e…
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2023/10/20Over the past decade, institutional investors’ quest for higher returns and portfolio diversification in an era of low interest rates and favora…
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2023/09/26Client onboarding continues to be a significant pain point for advisors. And new account opening (NAO) is arguably one of the most inefficient a…
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2024/03/21Everyone knows the importance of making a good first impression. Doing so at scale through digital-first customer engagement is today's clarion…
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2024/03/19Super-regional banks in the US face a unique, competitive environment. They compete not only with the largest global money center banks but also…
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2023/08/27Most onboarding solutions, whether built by a bank or solution provider, focus on a broad set of processes across sales automation, know-your-cu…
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2023/08/26This report is a companion piece to the Global IT report and focuses solely on North American Wealth Management IT Spending which includes Canad…
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2023/03/17Digitizing commercial customer onboarding is like using starting blocks in a sprint. It improves performance along numerous dimensions and gener…
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2023/03/08Summary In-depth personalization experiences rely on relevant user data, unifying their engagement channels, and creating segments to build firs…
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2023/02/23Our upcoming report Advisor Productivity: What’s Technology Got To Do, Got To Do With It? reveals that financial advisors spend an inordinate am…
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2022/08/06As banks chart their course through the imperative of digital transformation, one increasingly common approach is to launch a digital bank on a…
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2022/03/29Last week, my colleague Kieran Hines and I attended FinovateEurope 2022, which was back in London as an in-person event again, and it was such a…
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2022/03/13BNP Paribas S.A. implemented One KYC, a utility for collecting, storing, and maintaining information and documents for know-your-customer (KYC),…
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2021/10/26The last 18 months have been like no other in recent memory. The COVID-19 pandemic forced everyone, not just those in financial services, to rea…
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2021/09/08North American banks and credit unions are achieving widely varied results with digital account openings. The most effective institutions have t…
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2021/03/30Digital customer acquisition was a white hot topic before the pandemic and has exploded since then. Our March 2021 Digital Banking Panel survey…
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2021/03/10RBC launched new remote account open tools for personal and business clients. With this, RBC offers clients three convenient ways to open an acc…
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2020/09/21Join Awaad Aamir as he highlights findings from over 30 direct financial institution use cases on wealth management IT spending. Our videocast w…
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2025/01/21Since the financial crisis, transaction banking and commercial lending have become essential revenue streams for banks, characterized by low cap…
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2024/09/06Celent’s overarching theme for corporate banking in 2024 is that future success rests on faster, safer, smarter innovation. Banks must deliver t…
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2024/05/23Many statistics were presented at the JP Morgan Chase Investor Day 2024. Among them was a statement that the bank would invest (spend) some $17b…
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2024/05/16Corporate Banking IT spending continues to grow – even accelerate in most regions – from 2023 through to 2025. Some of these increases will be e…
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2024/02/16Celent is hosting its annual Innovation and Insight Day on March 21st, where we will announce our 2024 Celent Model Bank Award winners. The even…
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2024/02/01During a challenging year for the broader US banking industry in 2023, the largest US banks demonstrated their resilience by experiencing signif…
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2024/01/25In recent weeks I’ve had several conversations with some of the largest financial services technology companies and banks about adoption of publ…
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2023/12/13Each year, Oliver Wyman (our parent company) partners with Morgan Stanley Research to publish an industry outlook for Wholesale Banking. This ye…
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2023/11/26Asia’s economic and banking landscape is far from homogeneous. The region has a diverse mix of small and large countries with widely varying lev…
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2023/11/19Last week the Celent corporate banking team published its annual Technology Trends Previsory: Corporate Banking 2024 Edition which can be downl…
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2023/11/15The economic shocks of 2022 and early 2023 appear to have calmed, but geo-political and financial conditions remain far from easy for banks and…
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2023/09/16Corporate treasury and finance organizations play a crucial role in managing businesses’ financial operations, especially for those firms that h…
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2023/07/172023 will be a challenging year for many in the industry. Post-pandemic expectations of a return to focusing on growth and innovation have been…
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2023/03/29It’s that time of year again - March Madness. However, tear yourself away from the annual NCAA basketball tournament and focus on the Celent Mod…
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2023/03/19With the worst effects of the pandemic now having receded, the corporate banking industry is back to focusing on revenue and profitability. As s…
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2025/03/11Celent estimates that AI was behind roughly 20% of the fraud perpetrated in 2024 and is poised to fuel even more fraud moving forward. The good…
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2025/01/21Snap polls reflect questions posed by members of the Celent Executive Panel, a group of C level executives at insurance carriers. Questions for…
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2024/09/14The ability to detect insurance claims fraud is, in some ways, easier than ever. With each year, the datasets that insurers have access to are e…
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2024/08/12A claims fraud-detection system helps insurance carriers identify fraudulent claims at both the individual and organizational levels. It is typi…
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2024/08/12A claims fraud-detection system helps insurance carriers identify fraudulent claims at both the individual and organizational levels. It is typi…
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2024/04/25Throughout history, insurance has provided protection to countless individuals and businesses. However, alongside the insurance industry, insura…
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2024/02/08Just as COVID-19 provided the “aha” moment for accelerating digital transformation in the insurance industry, generative AI (Gen AI) is the “aha…
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2022/09/26A claims fraud-detection system helps insurance providers identify fraudulent claims, at both the individual and organizational levels. It is ty…
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2022/09/26A claims fraud-detection system helps insurance providers identify fraudulent claims, at both the individual and organizational levels. It is ty…
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2022/09/26A claims fraud-detection system helps insurance providers identify fraudulent claims, at both the individual and organizational levels. It is ty…
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2022/04/14In this discussion, Aneesh Chopra,President, CareJourney, who served in the Obama Administration as the first US Chief Technology Officer, chatt…
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2022/03/29ESG criteria promotes doing business for good and holds organization accountable for actions that are damaging to the people and planet it aims…
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2021/12/17What is data management and data lineage and why is it important to have a process for understanding data sources in your organization? How do w…
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2021/10/18Alternate data sources can be a possible way to enhance insurance models and provide greater insights for insurers, leading to the inclusion of…
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2021/09/15MLOps is a multi-phase process that leverages the power of large volumes and variety of data, abundant compute on GPU, and open-source machine l…
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2025/02/12As we step into 2025, the regulatory landscape is changing radically. We are seeing a pronounced divergence in the level of regulatory intensity…
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2024/11/06Celent's Risk and Compliance priorities for 2025 examine impactful technology and regulatory trends within the domains of anti-financial crime,…
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2024/09/27As part of Celent’s ongoing coverage of technology and business trends in genAI, Celent held its Generative AI Symposium in New York last week.…
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2024/07/17Risk management technology spending is accelerating worldwide, driven by a combination of regulatory change, technological development, and macr…
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2024/04/09Regulatory requirements related to data management have evolved from broad guidelines to specific requirements across a multitude of data qualit…
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2024/03/21DBS' self-developed Movement Analyser is an intelligent tool to automate manual operations and bring advanced real time data analytics capabilit…
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2024/03/21In 2018, Deutsche Bank embarked on CRAFT, a five-year program to overhaul the technology underpinning the bank’s global credit risk function, a…
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2024/03/21MB has enhanced its market risk and counterparty credit risk (CCR) management to meet global standards, including: A near real-time VaR calcul…
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2024/01/22Nasdaq and its subsidiary Verafin, just published their first Global Financial Crime Report. The report is making headlines for the size of its…
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2023/11/30In 2024, technological turbulence – generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI), digital asset adoption, increased fraud and cyber risk – will r…
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2023/11/22When 2023 opened with the scare of an SVB-led financial contagion, financial risk topped the list of CRO concerns. With that crisis averted, ope…
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2023/10/27Recorded on October 31, 2023. The first waves of Gen AI are hitting the shore as FIs test use cases in call centers. But Risk Leaders see a tsun…
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2023/10/09After nearly a year at the helm of Celent's Risk practice, I had the privilege of attending my inaugural Sibos conference. My colleagues Patrici…
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2023/08/08Few financial institutions have yet to implement Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) technology in their operations, however, both large…
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2023/07/19Recorded on July 19, 2023. Want to hear more about the current state of technology strategy and investment prioritization in the industry? Our w…
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2023/11/03.At the start of any life insurance sales cycle for a non-traditional product comes an illustration. An insurer has many choices in vendors and…
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2023/11/02At the start of any life insurance sales cycle for a non-traditional product comes an illustration. An insurer has many choices in vendors and w…
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2023/06/04Insurers have been modernizing their legacy systems, increasing their presence in cloud, and finding innovative use cases driven by emerging tec…
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2022/09/28This research will provide an overview of the insurance market and technology trends in Australia and New Zealand. We will provide examples of i…
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2020/12/092020 has not been an ordinary year for life insurance companies. Celent expects insurers will move many digitally sales oriented investments to…
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2020/11/302020 has not been an ordinary year for life insurance companies. Celent expects insurers will move many digitally sales oriented investments to…
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2020/10/02Healthcare is more important than ever, and digital health solutions are enabling personalized health assessment and overall care. Digital healt…
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2020/03/24The current Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has put the global environment into trying times and it signify opportunities to extend current…
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2019/03/18System decisions are complicated. In this report, targeted at both the buyer and the seller, Celent discusses how to manage the process of comin…
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2018/10/29A focus on the insurance ecosystem, the role of digital, innovation, and InsurTech. I had the great pleasure of attending DIA Munich 2018 . As a…
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2016/09/23
Celent has published a new report titled Views of the Past and Future: Trends and Predictions for North American Illustration Systems.The report…
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2016/08/25
Celent has released a report that reviews the global life insurance illustration solution spectrum titled Predicting the Future: 2016 EMEA, APAC…
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2016/08/24
Celent has released a report that reviews the North American life insurance illustration solution spectrum titled Predicting the Future, 2016 No…
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2024/09/30In the early part of the year, insurance made the news in North Carolina because carriers were asking for up to double the rate along the fragil…
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2023/11/19
Last week the Celent corporate banking team published its annual Technology Trends Previsory: Corporate Banking 2024 Edition which can be downl…
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2023/08/26
This report is a companion piece to the Global IT report and focuses solely on North American Wealth Management IT Spending which includes Canad…
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2022/11/11Over three weeks in September 2022, Celent Banking team ran an online survey where we invited our contacts in the industry – clients and non-cli…
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2022/10/31Faced with historically high inflation and energy bills, increasing interest rates, and continued geopolitical and economic uncertainty, consume…
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2022/04/18
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…
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2022/03/15The imperative for financial institutions (FIs) to undergo digital transformation has only increased during the past two years. Many FIs are in…
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2022/03/15Legend, an open source technology platform offered by Goldman Sachs and FINOS, tackles the rapidly growing challenge of ensuring timely access t…
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2021/12/06The marketing statements of financial institutions have for years touted“customer-first”, “customer 360”; and “omnichannel communications” to de…
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2021/10/08Implementing changes has always required various human and technology resources. Wealth management (WM) firms have generally employed specific p…
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2021/09/28The demand for applications is growing faster than the supply of developers to deliver them. A new era of low/no-code development is emerging no…
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2021/09/28The growth in demand for digital has created a long tail of applications which traditional IT struggles to build or maintain. The backlog is gro…
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2021/08/08Implementing changes has always required various human and technology resources. Insurers have generally employed specific processes to plan, ex…
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2021/07/12In 2018 ING embarked on a multiyear program to reimagine application development and drive change within an agile, at-scale transformation frame…
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2021/03/12
Intelligent automation projects are worth exploring as they can directly decrease the cost of operations while improving scalability and reducin…
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2024/09/17Policy administration systems are effective at generating policies by capturing demographic information, tracking policy terms and conditions, a…
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2024/09/16Policy administration systems are effective at generating policies by capturing demographic information, tracking policy terms and conditions, a…
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2023/06/04
Insurers have been modernizing their legacy systems, increasing their presence in cloud, and finding innovative use cases driven by emerging tec…
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2023/03/29When Joyn Insurance developed Spark, a digital workflow platform for commercial business, it transformed a largely manual process to enable unde…
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2022/09/28
This research will provide an overview of the insurance market and technology trends in Australia and New Zealand. We will provide examples of i…
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2022/08/18In this report, we look at how data solutions play a role to provide support for actuary and underwriting functions in the insurance value chain…
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2022/04/11As part of Celent's Innovation and Insight Week 2022, a roundtable was conducted for the data, analytics, and AI theme on the topic of 'Data Inn…
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2022/03/17Amerisure, one of the nation's leading providers of commercial insurance, embarked on an underwriting transformation program in 2017 to support…
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2021/08/08The world is witnessing a state of flux, with climate change threatening where we live, work, and play. Natural catastrophes and weather reliant…
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2021/03/11In today’s globalized business environment, companies increasingly seek success outside their borders. To differentiate themselves, internationa…
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2020/09/17Providing the right cover in a timely manner to customers is an increasing challenge both for underwriters and brokers. Mphasis shared some of t…
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2020/06/08Use of artificial intelligence offers new opportunities across all operations in the insurance industry. For this briefing note, we focus on Chi…
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2019/03/18
System decisions are complicated. In this report, targeted at both the buyer and the seller, Celent discusses how to manage the process of comin…
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2018/10/29
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…
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2018/07/09In 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…
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2024/12/13Core banking system (CBS) technology has witnessed a fundamental shift over the last five years. Next-generation core banking has become mainstr…
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2024/10/08I recently had the opportunity to attend Fiserv Forum in Las Vegas, NV from September 29-October 1, 2024. Lasting over 2 ½ fast-paced days, this…
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2024/09/04The core banking system technology market for community banks continues to modernize at a steady pace. Vendors continue to proactively and profi…
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2024/08/21The CFPB's proposals for Section 1033 mark the beginning of a new era for open banking in the US. Assuming the proposals that are published in O…
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2024/06/11Traditional banks and credit unions are increasingly launching new, digital-only brands. Standing up a modern digital-first version of the bank…
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2024/06/06I recently had the opportunity to attend FIS Emerald in Orlando, FL from May 26-29, 2024. Lasting over three fast-paced days, this conference is…
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2024/05/23
Many statistics were presented at the JP Morgan Chase Investor Day 2024. Among them was a statement that the bank would invest (spend) some $17b…
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2024/03/20OP Financial Group transformed its unsecured lending servicing, successfully adopting a next-generation cloud-native core platform while re-thin…
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2024/02/16
Celent is hosting its annual Innovation and Insight Day on March 21st, where we will announce our 2024 Celent Model Bank Award winners. The even…
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2024/02/13Revolut has just launched a new eSIM service for its UK customers, to allow them to avoid mobile roaming charges while travelling abroad. The se…
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2023/12/13The migration of on premise banking applications to private and public cloud deployment has been underway for over a past decade.Early migration…
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2023/12/04Banking and banking technology are undergoing massive change. New business models and market strategies driven by neobanks and fintechs have pus…
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2023/11/19
Last week the Celent corporate banking team published its annual Technology Trends Previsory: Corporate Banking 2024 Edition which can be downl…
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2023/09/13We chatted with Sonny Singh, the Executive Vice-President and General Manager of Oracle Financial Services, about Oracle's cloud-based core bank…
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2025/01/21
Since the financial crisis, transaction banking and commercial lending have become essential revenue streams for banks, characterized by low cap…
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2024/09/06
Celent’s overarching theme for corporate banking in 2024 is that future success rests on faster, safer, smarter innovation. Banks must deliver t…
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2024/05/23
Many statistics were presented at the JP Morgan Chase Investor Day 2024. Among them was a statement that the bank would invest (spend) some $17b…
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2024/05/16
Corporate Banking IT spending continues to grow – even accelerate in most regions – from 2023 through to 2025. Some of these increases will be e…
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2024/02/16
Celent is hosting its annual Innovation and Insight Day on March 21st, where we will announce our 2024 Celent Model Bank Award winners. The even…
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2024/02/01
During a challenging year for the broader US banking industry in 2023, the largest US banks demonstrated their resilience by experiencing signif…
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2024/01/25
In recent weeks I’ve had several conversations with some of the largest financial services technology companies and banks about adoption of publ…
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2023/12/13
Each year, Oliver Wyman (our parent company) partners with Morgan Stanley Research to publish an industry outlook for Wholesale Banking. This ye…
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2023/11/26
Asia’s economic and banking landscape is far from homogeneous. The region has a diverse mix of small and large countries with widely varying lev…
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2023/11/19
Last week the Celent corporate banking team published its annual Technology Trends Previsory: Corporate Banking 2024 Edition which can be downl…
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2023/11/15
The economic shocks of 2022 and early 2023 appear to have calmed, but geo-political and financial conditions remain far from easy for banks and…
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2023/10/20This weekend I head to the Association for Financial Professional (AFP) conference in San Diego – one of my favorite conference cities in the US…
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2023/10/16Corporate receivables management platforms have advanced significantly since Celent’s last vendor comparison, yet solutions remain widely varied…
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2023/09/29Sub-accounts and virtual accounts are not new, but interest from large corporates has increased in recent years. Pioneered with multinational co…
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2023/09/23Many of the largest banks have invested in corporate virtual account management (VAM) solutions – primarily to help larger clients with complex…
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2025/03/05This is the preamble report to our series, Retail Digital Banking Platforms: 2025 XCelent Awards, Powered by VendorMatch. Powerful market and te…
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2025/03/05As we undertake extensive research on digital banking platforms, we have compiled this preamble report to our series, Small Business Digital Ban…
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2025/01/21
Since the financial crisis, transaction banking and commercial lending have become essential revenue streams for banks, characterized by low cap…
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2024/10/21While it is typical to find incremental changes in Celent’s biannual examination of vendor solutions, for intelligent virtual assistant platform…
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2024/09/30Historically, banks have faced challenges providing comprehensive cash position and forecasting solutions due to limited access to transaction d…
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2024/09/06
Celent’s overarching theme for corporate banking in 2024 is that future success rests on faster, safer, smarter innovation. Banks must deliver t…
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2024/06/26I've just returned from EBAday, the annual summit for leading payments and transaction banking executives, held in beautiful Lisbon, Portugal, t…
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2024/06/11
Traditional banks and credit unions are increasingly launching new, digital-only brands. Standing up a modern digital-first version of the bank…
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2024/05/23
Many statistics were presented at the JP Morgan Chase Investor Day 2024. Among them was a statement that the bank would invest (spend) some $17b…
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2024/05/16
Corporate Banking IT spending continues to grow – even accelerate in most regions – from 2023 through to 2025. Some of these increases will be e…
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2024/04/30Over the past few years, Celent has highlighted significant new entrants or solutions launched into the US Cash Management market. Goldman Sachs…
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2024/04/23There is a tendency to talk about “buy versus build” development paradigms for banking solutions. Today, with the rapid changes in technology ar…
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2024/03/21The imperative for financial institutions (FIs) to continuously add new technology capabilities drives them to evaluate existing systems to mode…
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2024/03/21Bank of Montreal (BMO) completed the acquisition of Bank of the West in February 2023 and converted and migrated almost two million customer rel…
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2024/03/21
In 2018, Deutsche Bank embarked on CRAFT, a five-year program to overhaul the technology underpinning the bank’s global credit risk function, a…