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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…
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…
Corporate Banking IT spending continues to grow – even accelerate in most regions – from 2023 through to 2025. Some of these increases will be e…
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…
During a challenging year for the broader US banking industry in 2023, the largest US banks demonstrated their resilience by experiencing signif…
In recent weeks I’ve had several conversations with some of the largest financial services technology companies and banks about adoption of publ…
Each year, Oliver Wyman (our parent company) partners with Morgan Stanley Research to publish an industry outlook for Wholesale Banking. This ye…
Last week the Celent corporate banking team published its annual Technology Trends Previsory: Corporate Banking 2024 Edition which can be downl…
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…
Trade Finance was once again a hot topic at this year's Sibos conference in Toronto, organized by Swift. The trade ecosystem has been working to…
2023 will be a challenging year for many in the industry. Post-pandemic expectations of a return to focusing on growth and innovation have been…
With the worst effects of the pandemic now having receded, the corporate banking industry is back to focusing on revenue and profitability. As s…
Geopolitical and economic waves have shocked markets around the world. In a period of disrupted supply chains, accelerating inflation, and risin…
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…
The COVID-19 pandemic caused corporate leaders to look for ways to keep their businesses viable, and many of those leaders looked to their CFOs…
With its ability to analyze vast amounts of data, identify patterns, and make intelligent predictions, AI has rapidly been adopted across the ba…
Risk management technology spending is accelerating worldwide, driven by a combination of regulatory change, technological development, and macr…
While artificial intelligence has been selectively implemented to help banks fight financial crime, recent breakthroughs in AI technology promis…
Moving Ahead with GenAI It’s hard to believe how quickly Generative AI (GenAI) technology has gained traction across industries worldwide. Since…
Celent recently published the Dimensions: IT Pressures and Priorities report series. This annual survey of bank executives worldwide is used to…
About the Showcase Gen AI is the hottest topic in the industry right now. Insurers are reaching out daily with questions and the need for advice…
Consumer credit scoring has existed for decades. It evolved from being a custom analytic product used within financial institutions to being a g…
This report represents the second in the 2-part series “The New Wealth Management Paradigm – From Apps to Agents.” The wealth management industr…
ING was looking to accelerate the digitisation of its offerng in the FX markets - a market which is the largest in the world by traded volume, b…
In 2018, Deutsche Bank embarked on CRAFT, a five-year program to overhaul the technology underpinning the bank’s global credit risk function, a…
MB has enhanced its market risk and counterparty credit risk (CCR) management to meet global standards, including: A near real-time VaR calcul…
DBS Bank, one of the largest banks in the Asia-Pacific region, has a long-standing reputation for innovation. With AI becoming a more pervasive…
OakNorth is integrating climate transition risk into portfolio risk management. ON Climate provides lenders the ability to assess climate transi…
For many years Microsoft Excel was the staple application of finance teams. Perhaps one of the earliest “no-code” solutions, the combination of…
In Celent's enterprise data enablement survey a few years ago, both asset managers and asset owners indicated a renewed trajectory towards enhan…
The commercial loan origination and underwriting process still looks the same as it did 20 years ago. It starts with developing leads and fleshi…
Going into 2020, traditional banking approaches to credit were already under strain. The data and analytics revolution pioneered by Big Tech had…
Anyone with experience in banking knows that lending is a cyclical business meaning that problems also come in waves. In other words, problem lo…
While LIBOR transition is a major program, it was never based on an immovable date like “the year 2000” (Y2K). It now seems possible that transi…
At the beginning of 2020, Corporate Banking revenue trends continued their annual upward trajectory. Just a few months later, those trends drama…
Celent recognizes Santander UK as the winner of the 2020 Celent Model Bank Award for Commercial Lending for their initiative SME, Commercial, an…
OakNorth’s next-generation credit and monitoring platform leverages machine learning, decades of credit expertise, and massive data sets to mode…
Coronavirus (COVID-19) is already having a profound effect on people’s lives and the economy. Corporate and commercial banks have a central role…
THREE EXTERNAL FORCES DRIVING CORPORATE BANKING CHANGE Corporate bankers face a 2020 landscape shaped by three powerful external forces: Corpora…
It is been four years since I published the blog "Reports of small business lending’s death are greatly exaggerated", written in response to an…
The past decade has been unique for financial services industry and the economy in general. The Great Recession-which in the United States began…
As banks look to improve the corporate banking customer experience, by upgrading their technology infrastructure, they often turn to digital cor…
As banks look to transform the corporate banking customer experience by upgrading their technology infrastructure, they often turn to integrated…
Corporate banking plays a dominant role for the largest global banks. Celent drills down into corporate banking performance and takes a closer l…
Distributed ledger technology (DLT) has the potential to provide a new architecture for the financial system in corporate banking and capital ma…
The wealth management industry is on the cusp of transformation – a new paradigm is emerging - driven by advancements in technology. Over the ne…
This report represents the second in the 2-part series “The New Wealth Management Paradigm – From Apps to Agents.” The wealth management industr…
Morgan Stanley Wealth Management is bringing access to portfolio risk insights directly to its financial advisors, embedding risk management cap…
For insurance and institutional clients, efficient portfolio optimization and operational agility from the standpoint of dynamic adaptation and…
Wealth management firms point to advisor workflow automation as one of the biggest opportunities for boosting productivity and freeing up adviso…
OakNorth is integrating climate transition risk into portfolio risk management. ON Climate provides lenders the ability to assess climate transi…
Fractional share trading for equities and ETFs is not new. Widespread adoption of fractionals in mostly brokerage accounts were spurred on by th…
Is the RIA industry being disrupted? After a monumental year from one late-stage WealthTech startup, the answer appears to be yes. WealthTech St…
Private market asset managers were not immune from the post-pandemic, macroeconomic headwinds and recent market volatility – with operating marg…
To help our clients navigate challenges facing the industry, Celent has developed a new, enhanced approach for tracking financial institution IT…
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…
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…
On 12th June 2023 (just yesterday), Nasdaq announced their intentions to acquire Adenza (which itself was created from the coming together of Ca…