
Earlier today Fiserv announced the acquisition of First Data in an all-stock transaction, implying the equity value for First Data of $22 billio…
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Earlier today Fiserv announced the acquisition of First Data in an all-stock transaction, implying the equity value for First Data of $22 billio…
Ninety percent of Fortune 1000 companies engage in some degree of external IT services. The increase in these engagements is to a large extent t…
Watchlist screening has become the most-scrutinized area of AML compliance, and the area that has been hit with the most outsized fines by regul…
Anti-money laundering software continues to evolve. Solution providers have been responding to demands for new functionality driven by financial…
About a year ago, I decided to embark on a journey of researching vendors and service providers in card management and transaction processing (C…
On January 14 Fiserv announced that it closed the acquisition of the equity of Open Solutions for $55 million. At this size the deal was not sub…
It's been a really busy week on the M&A front - S1/Fundtech, Intuit/Mobile Money Ventures, and now Fiserv/Cashedge. Yesterday, Fiserv announced…
Remote cash capture (RCC) is the deployment of secure, validating currency accepting and recycling equipment (aka smart safes) at merchant locat…
San Francisco, CA, USA October 9, 2007 Over the next decade, financial institutions will differentiate themselves based on their customer profit…
San Francisco, CA, USA January 17, 2006 An Analysis of Factors Paving the Way 2006 will be a breakthrough year for image exchange/share. Celent…
Forcht Bank, a community bank operating in Kentucky and Ohio, aimed to strengthen cybersecurity by leveraging managed services. The bank believe…
The colocation market is thriving. Although highly associated with high frequency traders utilizing ultra-low latency trading strategies, exchan…
Not long ago insurers were resistant (or, at best hesitant) to move legacy data and applications to any place outside of the control of their ow…
"Conversions are very risky, painful and are never on-time!"— is this old saying still true for insurance system conversions? Apparently, there…
The market for IT services continues to grow as providers rebound in the wake of the pandemic. On one end, commoditization of technology infrast…
Celent surveyed numerous vendors that provide RPA platforms and/or services to see how RPA is advancing with focus on areas such as process inte…
This year, Celent interviewed 25 chief information officers and senior technology leaders of global market infrastructure (MI) to understand the…
In Insurtech in Asia Series: Evolving Landscape, Changing Innovations in Singapore, we summarize the observations and segment four main areas fo…
In my previous blog, I wrote about the usage of alternative data for health insurance and how this can be enabled by the partnership of the gove…
As the world finally turn the page to a new post-pandemic chapter, the Wealth Management industry has reason for cautious optimism. While much u…
The COVID-19 pandemic has been especially hard on P&C insurers. Along with a large number of natural disasters and severe weather events which c…
COVID-19 presented the global life insurance industry with challenges that have turned into opportunities. New societal realities and customer n…
Technology-driven change is accelerating in the buy side front office according to senior buy side executives who participated in an exclusive C…
The IT services market is dynamic, and vendors active in this market help insurers capture the value of relevant technologies to enhance their d…
Data assets and data as a product are becoming the priority for insurers, which are investing in data, analytics, and AI tools for delivering a…
Last October, the Celent Corporate Banking team published its Technology Trends Previsory, 2022 Edition. In the report, we identified five key t…
Winners in corporate and commercial banking are leaping ahead of the competition by leveraging technology to accelerate digital innovation and g…
While Bank of America’s CashPro app was a nice-to-have mobile channel for clients pre-pandemic, it rapidly transformed into a critical tool for…
The Government of India values the Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector as a highly vibrant and dynamic sector of the Indian econo…
Embedded finance is reshaping the way customers engage with financial products and expanding the distribution of tools and services that banks,…
For transaction banking, the sharp downturn in interest rates in 2020 led to a collapse of net interest income on deposits and effectively wiped…
Breakthrough innovations are occurring in cash management thanks to advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), connectivi…
For transaction banking, the sharp downturn in interest rates in 2020 led to a collapse of net interest income on deposits and effectively wiped…
Transaction banking, including cash management and payments, has been hit hard over the past 18 months. A sharp downturn in interest rates in 20…
The 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…
Much of a bank's corporate banking revenue is attributable to meeting the complex financial operations needs of their business customers, who re…
Much of a bank's corporate banking revenue is attributable to meeting the complex financial operations needs of their business customers, who re…
Serving corporate clients requires banks to offer a dizzying array of products and services to manage working capital, liquidity, investments, a…
In 2019, the Wells Fargo Commercial Banking and Corporate & Investment Banking groups embarked on a multiyear program to reimagine the customer…
Wholesale banks are delivering high returns. A decade of structural changes in the Markets and IBD businesses has led to more efficient balance…
Last October, the Celent Corporate Banking team published its Technology Trends Previsory, 2022 Edition. In the report, we identified five key t…
Winners in corporate and commercial banking are leaping ahead of the competition by leveraging technology to accelerate digital innovation and g…
While Bank of America’s CashPro app was a nice-to-have mobile channel for clients pre-pandemic, it rapidly transformed into a critical tool for…
The Government of India values the Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector as a highly vibrant and dynamic sector of the Indian econo…
Embedded finance is reshaping the way customers engage with financial products and expanding the distribution of tools and services that banks,…
For transaction banking, the sharp downturn in interest rates in 2020 led to a collapse of net interest income on deposits and effectively wiped…
Breakthrough innovations are occurring in cash management thanks to advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), connectivi…
For transaction banking, the sharp downturn in interest rates in 2020 led to a collapse of net interest income on deposits and effectively wiped…
Transaction banking, including cash management and payments, has been hit hard over the past 18 months. A sharp downturn in interest rates in 20…
Much of a bank's corporate banking revenue is attributable to meeting the complex financial operations needs of their business customers, who re…
Much of a bank's corporate banking revenue is attributable to meeting the complex financial operations needs of their business customers, who re…
Serving corporate clients requires banks to offer a dizzying array of products and services to manage working capital, liquidity, investments, a…
In 2019, the Wells Fargo Commercial Banking and Corporate & Investment Banking groups embarked on a multiyear program to reimagine the customer…
Wholesale banks are delivering high returns. A decade of structural changes in the Markets and IBD businesses has led to more efficient balance…
Celent recognizes Goldman Sachs as the winner of the 2021 Celent Model Bank Award for Corporate Banking in the Cloud for their initiative Goldma…
On May 4, 2022 Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE) announced that it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Black Knight, Inc. (“the t…
Solarisbank is Europe's leading Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform founded by a group of fintech experts from FinLeap. As a technology company…
The marketing statements of financial institutions have for years touted“customer-first”, “customer 360”; and “omnichannel communications” to de…
As analysts, we often get invited to speak at various conferences and client events. It is a privilege we don't take for granted, and always str…
The 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…
Embedded finance is a burgeoning space with the potential to dramatically reshape the way customers engage with financial services. And yet, dif…
The promise of delivering Americans low-cost and attractive banking services using an efficient, state-of-the-art tech stack has been an allurin…
This Model Bank report uncovers how Delta Community undertook a multiyear technology and operations transformation project in recognition that f…
The way in which banking software is being designed, written, deployed, maintained, updated, and replaced has accelerated due to cheaper storage…
This Celent Blog examines financial institution (FI) cloud adoption drivers and rates, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic (“pandemic”) on FI cl…
The path to digitization can challenge financial institutions, especially community banks, in several ways. From the provider perspective, small…
Banking is experiencing a period of business model innovation brought on by the emergence of new market entrants moving the ball forward on cus…
Australian Military Bank (AMB) is a niche institution dedicated to serving Australian Defence personnel and their families with products and ser…
Celent recognizes Länsförsäkringar Bank as the winner of the 2020 Celent Model Bank Award for Core Technology Replatforming for its initiative C…