
As 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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As banks chart their course through the imperative of digital transformation, one increasingly common approach is to launch a digital bank on a…
It’s no secret that banks’ adoption of public cloud has been proceeding faster than anyone (including us, honestly) predicted two years ago. Whe…
About the Interview: We chatted with Jeffrey Severjin, Chief Technology officer of five°degrees, about its °neo core banking engine. About five°…
About the Interview: We chatted with Travers Clarke-Walker, Thought Machine's Chief Marketing Officer, about its core banking system Vault. Abou…
About the Interview: We chatted with Michael Haney, Head of Digital Core for Technisys, about Cyberbank, the firm's Digital Engagement accelerat…
About the Interview: We chatted with Vishal Dalal, CEO U.S., Europe, and Asia, about Pismo's core banking platform. About Pismo Pismo is a techn…
About the Interview: We chatted with Raju Daryani, EVP & Head of Digital Core at Intellect Design Arena, about the firm's strategy and offerings…
About the Interview: We chatted with Javier Bucheli, SVP at CobisCorp, about the COBIS Digital Platform. About CobisCorp Our mission is to empow…
About the Interview: We chatted with John Weinkowtiz, Finastra's VP & Global Head of Product Marketing for Universal Banking, about the firm's c…
About the Interview: We chatted with Dennis Gada, Infosys' Head of Financial Services for North America, about the Infosys Cobalt Financial Serv…
Core banking system technology has changed more in the last 5 years than it had in the previous 20. Market dynamics are shifting as new core sys…
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…
Investment Culture Has Rooted in Japan, However Spread of Open APIs Is Slower than Expected In Japan, a country with a large amount of personal…
Profound shifts born from the wave of regulatory, capital, passive investing, and fee compression trends are continuing to alter the investment…
The acquisition of Redtail by Orion positions Orion as one of the most comprehensive all-in-one platform providers serving both RIAs and enterpr…
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…
Last month I was honored to participate in the TradeTech FX annual conference in Miami, FL, and to assist by hosting a keynote interview and mod…
"Generation Investor” was a term coined by Charles Schwab to account for the surge in retail investors who opened their brokerage accounts durin…
Over the past several years, the CRM vendor landscape has grown significantly in terms of functionality offered to advisors and wealth managers.…
Driven by the imperative for sustainable cost savings and profitability, investment managers are renewing their focus to double down on their co…
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…
There is no denying the wealth management market is telling us that planning software is a must have. Turnkey Asset Management Platform’s (TAMPs…
Representatives of the wealth managmenet industry gathered at Celent's Live Wealth Management Session at I&I Week 2021. Under the theme of Accel…
While the terminology “direct indexing” is newer, the investment approach is by no means new, as separately managed accounts (SMAs) can and have…
Celent hosted its 15th annual Innovation & Insight Week (I&I Week) and its fourth annual Model Wealth Manager Awards (Model WM Awards) program o…
Despite largely positive AUM growth, sustained growth in active investment remains elusive due to the onslaught of secular headwind factors and…
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing is becoming increasingly popular among global financial institutions and investors. Two ma…
The mortgage market in Canada has been growing strongly over time, and is now facing a period of technology-enabled transformation. The landscap…
The commercial loan origination and underwriting process still looks the same as it did 20 years ago. It starts with developing leads and fleshi…
Despite the rapid growth of digital automation with digital point-of-sale solutions, loan origination systems, automated underwriting, and data…
The UK mortgage market is at an inflection point due to higher interest rates, declining lending volumes, and customer demand for a better, tech…
On May 4, 2022 Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE) announced that it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Black Knight, Inc. (“the t…
Despite the rapid growth of digital automation with digital point-of-sale solutions, loan origination systems, automated underwriting, and data…
Over the past five years, a few banks have mastered the formula for success in small loan origination. They are leveraging their incumbent advan…
The imperative for financial institutions (FIs) to undergo digital transformation has only increased during the past two years. Many FIs are in…
America’s Credit Union transformed the way it provides consumer loans to its members. It previously sourced automobile loans through indirect (d…
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…
How Financial Institutions Are Responding to COVID-19 Constraints Many lenders adapted quickly to new customer channel preference (digital versu…
In retail lending the business and technology focus is usually on the retail consumer’s needs and customer journey. For example, Celent research…
Competition in retail account origination continues to demand real time access to many types of data to create faster processes at lower cost, i…
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…
With an emerging economy reliant on international, cross-border trade and transactions, Vietnamese banks must operate in line with global indust…
Banks around the world continue to struggle with complexities and inefficiencies in the know your customer (KYC) process, particularly for their…
BNP Paribas S.A. implemented One KYC, a utility for collecting, storing, and maintaining information and documents for know-your-customer (KYC),…
Congratulations to Celent's Model Risk Manager 2022 Award winners: ABN AMRO, BNP Paribas S.A., DBS Bank, Fincare Small Finance Bank, Forcht Bank…
Celent estimates that financial industry spending on AML-KYC compliance information technology (IT) and operations will reach US$37.1 billion gl…
The Risk team at Celent has regular conversations with industry participants to identify the technology and operational challenges they are faci…
With the growing adoption of cryptocurrencies and crypto-based assets, the crypto ecosystem and its participants are coming under greater scruti…