
The road ahead consists of constant virtual collaboration. For many wealth managers, current digital workflows are acceptable but not exceptiona…
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The road ahead consists of constant virtual collaboration. For many wealth managers, current digital workflows are acceptable but not exceptiona…
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, a shift in regulatory, economic, and technological requirements has fundamentally changed the advisor/client rela…
It took just a few days this March for a booming US economy to stop in its tracks, and a few weeks to end a 10-year bull market. As markets crat…
The coronavirus pandemic has fundamentally shifted how advisors engage and communicate with their clients. Those positioned to lead in this envi…
First Foundation Bank is a $6.3 billion asset institution focused on private wealth management, personal banking, and business banking. Founded…
This large, national, digital financial institution created a digital mortgage platform using inhouse and customized third party point-of-sale (…
Update to the Report Not your Grandfather's Wealth Manager: Digitizing the Legacy Platform This report, now titledThe Front Office Is Powered By…
The home lending industry is in the early stages of digital disruption that retail deposit, credit card, and personal lending sectors have alrea…
The world had a tough 2020 but, unlike the 2008 financial markets crisis, this time capital markets emerged as the hero as governments worldwide…
Risk management has a crucial role to play in keeping financial institutions on an even keel during these turbulent times. This session focuses…
Broker-dealers continue to watch how the SEC and FINRA interpret and enforce Regulation Best Interest (Reg BI) and Form CRS. On October 26th, th…
Regulation based on principle will generate uncertainty; such are the challenges of interpretation. In the case of Reg BI, the tests involved in…
Employee conduct is critical for financial institutions due to the reputational and regulatory risks. It is a complex, enterprise-wide area invo…
Financial institutions, and regulators, have traditionally been sensitive to data protection, privacy, and security issues for risk and complian…
Wealth managers increasingly are recognizing compliance as a business multiplier as opposed to a cost center. The InvestEdge Compliance and Surv…
It is imperative for financial institutions to stay competitive in digital financial services. Yet digital architectures bring new risks,with co…
Set to go into effect on June 30, Reg BI requires US broker‐dealers to adhere to a best interest standard of care when making a recommendation o…
Improving data management is a journey; in recent years many FIs have been ushering in changes to break down data silos and simplify data archit…
COVID-19 is prompting dramatic shifts in customer behavior as they exponentially increase the use of digital and remote channels for regular pur…
We are likely entering a prolonged period of heightened vulnerability to fraud and other financial crime due to criminal activity exploiting COV…
In my previous post, I proposed a new, virtual model for regulatory reviews, one that leverages the enterprise-wide lens furnished by modern com…
So-called collaboration tools like Zoom and Slack were on the radar of SEC and other regulators well before COVID-19. In fact, FINRA made explic…
COVID-19 continues to take its toll as its impact grows on several aspects of our lives. Celent has talked about its potential impact on financi…
Anyone with experience in banking knows that lending is a cyclical business meaning that problems also come in waves. In other words, problem lo…
The road ahead consists of constant virtual collaboration. For many wealth managers, current digital workflows are acceptable but not exceptiona…
This Solution Brief discusses one solution which delivers this new vision for claims teams, seeks to leverage the configurability of the low cod…
This year, COVID market turbulence saw significant losses from capital markets participants, especially dealer and regional banks, associated wi…
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…
COVID-19 has prompted many Wealth Management firms to reevaluate investment priorities for 2020 and beyond. The following report attempts to pro…
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, a shift in regulatory, economic, and technological requirements has fundamentally changed the advisor/client rela…
At the beginning of 2020, Corporate Banking revenue trends continued their annual upward trajectory. Just a few months later, those trends drama…
It took just a few days this March for a booming US economy to stop in its tracks, and a few weeks to end a 10-year bull market. As markets crat…
COVID-19 has taken an enormous human and economic toll on the world, and financial institutions globally are helping to implement government pro…
Covid-19 is justifiably top of mind for bankers today, yet two pre-pandemic hot topics remain salient today: Customer Experience (“CX”) and Arti…
Loan application submissions under the SBA's Paycheck Protection Program (part of the US CARES Act) started slowly as lenders waited for clarifi…
Robust levels of organic growth demanded a new approach to business assurance (compliance) at St. James’s Place, a wealth manager serving indivi…
Celent recognizes Santander UK as the winner of the 2020 Celent Model Bank Award for Commercial Lending for their initiative SME, Commercial, an…
First Foundation Bank is a $6.3 billion asset institution focused on private wealth management, personal banking, and business banking. Founded…
The road ahead consists of constant virtual collaboration. For many wealth managers, current digital workflows are acceptable but not exceptiona…
This Solution Brief discusses one solution which delivers this new vision for claims teams, seeks to leverage the configurability of the low cod…
COVID-19 has prompted many Wealth Management firms to reevaluate investment priorities for 2020 and beyond. The following report attempts to pro…
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, a shift in regulatory, economic, and technological requirements has fundamentally changed the advisor/client rela…
It took just a few days this March for a booming US economy to stop in its tracks, and a few weeks to end a 10-year bull market. As markets crat…
The coronavirus pandemic has fundamentally shifted how advisors engage and communicate with their clients. Those positioned to lead in this envi…
Covid-19 is justifiably top of mind for bankers today, yet two pre-pandemic hot topics remain salient today: Customer Experience (“CX”) and Arti…
Robust levels of organic growth demanded a new approach to business assurance (compliance) at St. James’s Place, a wealth manager serving indivi…
First Foundation Bank is a $6.3 billion asset institution focused on private wealth management, personal banking, and business banking. Founded…
Update to the Report Not your Grandfather's Wealth Manager: Digitizing the Legacy Platform This report, now titledThe Front Office Is Powered By…
This report explains the use cases of computer vision and OCR in insurance companies, together with the offerings vendors have developed. Next,…
The third of Fenergo’s three-part CLM Trends report series looks at how the technology driving finance and regulation is pushing financial insti…
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…
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…
The following report provides a high-level landscape of the major vendors within the net asset value (NAV) oversight and contingency ecosystem.…
During the first half of this year, Celent conducted in-depth conversations with global asset managers about their back office NAV oversight and…
Treasury and capital markets divisions at banks continue to struggle with the trilemma of complying with regulatory changes and meeting evolving…
Across the asset management industry, structural margin compression, and a stubborn cost base are reshaping strategic and operational priorities…
Treasury and capital markets divisions at banks continue to struggle with the trilemma of complying with regulatory changes and meeting evolving…
The race is on to get lean and agile. Unfortunately, capital markets firms continue to struggle with common operational and technology challenge…
Corporate actions processing has lagged other areas in technology innovation. However, developments in new technology and low-cost operating mod…
Join us for this presentation by Arin Ray addressing corporate actions automation and how to leverage innovative technology to improving efficie…
A failure to elect on a corporate action due to an operational error can hurt the beneficiary financially. This exposes the firm to scrutiny abo…
With a more relaxed US regulatory climate, tax reform and growing cash reserves more public companies are building strategic growth through merg…
With growing volumes and complexities of corporate actions, intensifying regulatory scrutiny on transparency in corporate governance, and dimini…
The pursuit for improving automation levels goes back a long time in the capital markets. Success has been achieved in some areas, but a lot rem…
Intelligent automation-enabled tools promise to offer significant operational and efficiency improvements in the middle and back office in capit…
The road ahead consists of constant virtual collaboration. For many wealth managers, current digital workflows are acceptable but not exceptiona…
This Solution Brief discusses one solution which delivers this new vision for claims teams, seeks to leverage the configurability of the low cod…
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…
This Celent Blog examines financial institution (FI) cloud adoption drivers and rates, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic (“pandemic”) on FI cl…
The mortgage lending industry is in turmoil for the second time in only a decade as the coronavirus has increased loan delinquencies and affecte…
COVID-19 has prompted many Wealth Management firms to reevaluate investment priorities for 2020 and beyond. The following report attempts to pro…
It took just a few days this March for a booming US economy to stop in its tracks, and a few weeks to end a 10-year bull market. As markets crat…
COVID-19 has taken an enormous human and economic toll on the world, and financial institutions globally are helping to implement government pro…
Covid-19 is justifiably top of mind for bankers today, yet two pre-pandemic hot topics remain salient today: Customer Experience (“CX”) and Arti…
Celent has discussed the importance of digitizing both the data-driven and document-driven aspects of the entire retail lending customer engagem…
Loan application submissions under the SBA's Paycheck Protection Program (part of the US CARES Act) started slowly as lenders waited for clarifi…
Robust levels of organic growth demanded a new approach to business assurance (compliance) at St. James’s Place, a wealth manager serving indivi…
First Foundation Bank is a $6.3 billion asset institution focused on private wealth management, personal banking, and business banking. Founded…
Celent recognizes RattanIndia Finance as the winner of the 2020 Celent Model Bank Award for Retail Lending for its initiative How to transition…
This large, national, digital financial institution created a digital mortgage platform using inhouse and customized third party point-of-sale (…
Anyone with experience in banking knows that lending is a cyclical business meaning that problems also come in waves. In other words, problem lo…
The way in which banking software is being designed, written, deployed, maintained, updated, and replaced has accelerated due to cheaper storage…
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…
This Celent Blog examines financial institution (FI) cloud adoption drivers and rates, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic (“pandemic”) on FI cl…
The mortgage lending industry is in turmoil for the second time in only a decade as the coronavirus has increased loan delinquencies and affecte…
At the beginning of 2020, Corporate Banking revenue trends continued their annual upward trajectory. Just a few months later, those trends drama…
June 19, 2020 Craig Focardi Amid unprecedented job loss and economic decline during a two-month period, COVID-19 has led to numerous economic st…
COVID-19 has taken an enormous human and economic toll on the world, and financial institutions globally are helping to implement government pro…
Celent recognizes RattanIndia Finance as the winner of the 2020 Celent Model Bank Award for Retail Lending for its initiative How to transition…
Celent recognizes Länsförsäkringar Bank as the winner of the 2020 Celent Model Bank Award for Core Technology Replatforming for its initiative C…
Coronavirus (COVID-19) is already having a profound effect on people’s lives and the economy. Corporate and commercial banks have a central role…
In Top Trends in Global Retail Lending 2020-2021: COVID-19 Mandates Faster Transition of Business and Technology Strategies, Celent maintains th…
2020 promises to be a year of excitement and challenge for retail bankers. Celent's analysts have a full agenda planned to help them address the…
THREE EXTERNAL FORCES DRIVING CORPORATE BANKING CHANGE Corporate bankers face a 2020 landscape shaped by three powerful external forces: Corpora…
The focus of the retail lending industry in recent years has been on digital account origination at the point-of-sale (POS). Attracting prospect…
The world had a tough 2020 but, unlike the 2008 financial markets crisis, this time capital markets emerged as the hero as governments worldwide…
Financial institutions, and regulators, have traditionally been sensitive to data protection, privacy, and security issues for risk and complian…
Wealth managers increasingly are recognizing compliance as a business multiplier as opposed to a cost center. The InvestEdge Compliance and Surv…
Set to go into effect on June 30, Reg BI requires US broker‐dealers to adhere to a best interest standard of care when making a recommendation o…
Improving data management is a journey; in recent years many FIs have been ushering in changes to break down data silos and simplify data archit…
In my previous post, I proposed a new, virtual model for regulatory reviews, one that leverages the enterprise-wide lens furnished by modern com…
So-called collaboration tools like Zoom and Slack were on the radar of SEC and other regulators well before COVID-19. In fact, FINRA made explic…
COVID-19 continues to take its toll as its impact grows on several aspects of our lives. Celent has talked about its potential impact on financi…
EVOLUTION AND REVOLUTION IN RISK AND COMPLIANCE Risk and compliance in the financial industry is at a watershed moment. While continuing to be h…
Rather than thinking of them as a single solution that fixes all problems, AI solutions should be viewed as a toolkit with different capabilitie…
Robotic process automation is a crunch technology that is relatively easy and quick to implement and promises a strong ROI, but a recent string…
Financial services regulation has expanded at an astounding rate since the financial crisis — and, consequently, so has the cost of regulatory c…
Today, an institution can take two approaches to reduce false alarms. It can either lower risk thresholds to capture more suspicious activities,…
This report aims to better understand the impact of future challenges and opportunities, as risk and compliance executives increasingly face int…
I was recently part of a large industry Risk and Compliance Summit in London, where I presented perspectives based on a recent study Celent exec…
Sanctions screening in many ways underpins anti-money laundering (AML) and counter terrorist financing (CTF) operations at financial institution…
When it comes to the capital markets, a shift is underway in the process of application development. This is driven by increasing demands across…
Digitalization of financial services is creating new products, channels, and business models, and is reshaping customer behavior and expectation…
Data science derive experimental conclusion on a hypothesis through experiments with data and statistical methods. As a branch of data science,…
Convergence of fraud and anti-money laundering (FRAML) technology and operations has been somewhat of a Holy Grail for financial institutions fo…
2020 marked a watershed with three platform players announcing entry into the small business deposit business: QuickBooks Cash, Square Bank, and…
The world had a tough 2020 but, unlike the 2008 financial markets crisis, this time capital markets emerged as the hero as governments worldwide…
The road ahead consists of constant virtual collaboration. For many wealth managers, current digital workflows are acceptable but not exceptiona…
This Solution Brief discusses one solution which delivers this new vision for claims teams, seeks to leverage the configurability of the low cod…
Financial institutions are seeking to contain the exploding operational expenses by investing in next-generation technology solutions. Specifica…
リサーチは投資情報戦略の動力源です。投資の意思決定がより高度になるにつれ、複雑なデータフローを管理し、ワークフローをサポートし、同じチームの複数のメンバーが共同で投資調査を行うことができるようにする必要性が高まっています。 リサーチ・マネジメント・システム(RSM)は、バイサイドのフロン…
2020 was a disruptive year in AML because COVID-19 forced financial institutions to reprioritize planned initiatives and redeploy resources to t…
Risk management has a crucial role to play in keeping financial institutions on an even keel during these turbulent times. This session focuses…
COVID-19 is accelerating longer term digitalization trends in financial services and causing massive shifts in transactional behavior. It is als…
Healthcare is more important than ever, and digital health solutions are enabling personalized health assessment and overall care. Digital healt…
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…
COVID-19 has taken an enormous human and economic toll on the world, and financial institutions globally are helping to implement government pro…
Loan application submissions under the SBA's Paycheck Protection Program (part of the US CARES Act) started slowly as lenders waited for clarifi…
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…
In 2010, ISO released the ISO Electronic Rating Content (ISO ERC). This product allows insurers to ingest loss costs, rules, and forms attachmen…
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…
Market Pain Points Risk-centric and market structure regulations continue to create complex requirements that pose integration and information c…
The world had a tough 2020 but, unlike the 2008 financial markets crisis, this time capital markets emerged as the hero as governments worldwide…
Broker-dealers continue to watch how the SEC and FINRA interpret and enforce Regulation Best Interest (Reg BI) and Form CRS. On October 26th, th…
Regulation based on principle will generate uncertainty; such are the challenges of interpretation. In the case of Reg BI, the tests involved in…
Employee conduct is critical for financial institutions due to the reputational and regulatory risks. It is a complex, enterprise-wide area invo…
Wealth managers increasingly are recognizing compliance as a business multiplier as opposed to a cost center. The InvestEdge Compliance and Surv…
Improving data management is a journey; in recent years many FIs have been ushering in changes to break down data silos and simplify data archit…
It took just a few days this March for a booming US economy to stop in its tracks, and a few weeks to end a 10-year bull market. As markets crat…
March Madness: Month 1 of Covid-19 A brief look at the end of the beginning from a trading and communication perspective. A look at how trading…
In my previous post, I proposed a new, virtual model for regulatory reviews, one that leverages the enterprise-wide lens furnished by modern com…
So-called collaboration tools like Zoom and Slack were on the radar of SEC and other regulators well before COVID-19. In fact, FINRA made explic…
COVID-19 continues to take its toll as its impact grows on several aspects of our lives. Celent has talked about its potential impact on financi…
Celent in conjunction with Nasdaq interviewed and surveyed 50 senior front office trading and technology staff at global trading firms, broker d…
EVOLUTION AND REVOLUTION IN RISK AND COMPLIANCE Risk and compliance in the financial industry is at a watershed moment. While continuing to be h…
NICE Actimize launched the SURVEIL-X solution in September 2019, and recently briefed Celent about the solution’s key features and roadmap. This…
When it comes to the capital markets, a shift is underway in the process of application development. This is driven by increasing demands across…
Data science derive experimental conclusion on a hypothesis through experiments with data and statistical methods. As a branch of data science,…
The world had a tough 2020 but, unlike the 2008 financial markets crisis, this time capital markets emerged as the hero as governments worldwide…
リサーチは投資情報戦略の動力源です。投資の意思決定がより高度になるにつれ、複雑なデータフローを管理し、ワークフローをサポートし、同じチームの複数のメンバーが共同で投資調査を行うことができるようにする必要性が高まっています。 リサーチ・マネジメント・システム(RSM)は、バイサイドのフロン…
An Audio with Slides version of the Report -- The Story of Data, Maps, and Digital Proximity Abstract The “Last Mile” in delivery, direction, se…
The wealth management industry, including the brokerage industry, continues to face strong headwinds. They come from changes in the core client…
Healthcare is more important than ever, and digital health solutions are enabling personalized health assessment and overall care. Digital healt…
Research helps power the investment engine. With investment decision-making getting more advanced, there is an increasing need to manage complex…
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…
Today’s artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) will require a different approach in management, combining both technical assessm…
Natural language processing (NLP) is the technique to provide semantics to information extracted from optical character recognition engines and…
Celent explores key trends, data sources, metrics, and partnerhsips in ESG. We look at the implications across capital markets, asset and wealth…
The “Last Mile” in delivery, direction, service, communication, and experience is the one that matters most to people. It binds customers, emplo…
During the next 10 years, advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning will drive a step change in user interfaces and user expe…
The insurance industry is moving beyond small proof of concept projects toward large-scale adoption of machine learning (ML), and this calls for…
The world had a tough 2020 but, unlike the 2008 financial markets crisis, this time capital markets emerged as the hero as governments worldwide…
Financial institutions, and regulators, have traditionally been sensitive to data protection, privacy, and security issues for risk and complian…
Wealth managers increasingly are recognizing compliance as a business multiplier as opposed to a cost center. The InvestEdge Compliance and Surv…
Set to go into effect on June 30, Reg BI requires US broker‐dealers to adhere to a best interest standard of care when making a recommendation o…
Improving data management is a journey; in recent years many FIs have been ushering in changes to break down data silos and simplify data archit…
In my previous post, I proposed a new, virtual model for regulatory reviews, one that leverages the enterprise-wide lens furnished by modern com…
So-called collaboration tools like Zoom and Slack were on the radar of SEC and other regulators well before COVID-19. In fact, FINRA made explic…
COVID-19 continues to take its toll as its impact grows on several aspects of our lives. Celent has talked about its potential impact on financi…
EVOLUTION AND REVOLUTION IN RISK AND COMPLIANCE Risk and compliance in the financial industry is at a watershed moment. While continuing to be h…
Rather than thinking of them as a single solution that fixes all problems, AI solutions should be viewed as a toolkit with different capabilitie…
Robotic process automation is a crunch technology that is relatively easy and quick to implement and promises a strong ROI, but a recent string…
Financial services regulation has expanded at an astounding rate since the financial crisis — and, consequently, so has the cost of regulatory c…
Today, an institution can take two approaches to reduce false alarms. It can either lower risk thresholds to capture more suspicious activities,…
This report aims to better understand the impact of future challenges and opportunities, as risk and compliance executives increasingly face int…
I was recently part of a large industry Risk and Compliance Summit in London, where I presented perspectives based on a recent study Celent exec…