
Increasingly, risk offices at financial institutions are using advanced data management and artificial intelligence (AI), orchestration, high-pe…
Increasingly, risk offices at financial institutions are using advanced data management and artificial intelligence (AI), orchestration, high-pe…
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…
Congratulations to Celent's Model Risk Manager 2022 Award winners: ABN AMRO, BNP Paribas S.A., DBS Bank, Fincare Small Finance Bank, Forcht Bank…
The commercial loan origination and underwriting process still looks the same as it did 20 years ago. It starts with developing leads and fleshi…
Over the past five years, a few banks have mastered the formula for success in small loan origination. They are leveraging their incumbent advan…
From every crisis springs innovation. From the financial crisis of the late 2000s, seeds of small business credit innovation were sown, fertiliz…
Going into 2020, traditional banking approaches to credit were already under strain. The data and analytics revolution pioneered by Big Tech had…
In 2018 ING embarked on a multiyear program to reimagine application development and drive change within an agile, at-scale transformation frame…
Commercial loan origination has historically been complex and inefficient, requiring many disparate, disconnected steps to be completed, startin…
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…