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16 August 2021Climate change is real and retail banks have an important role to play to help tackle the issue. Card issuers can contribute by moving to more s…
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15 July 2021As the world begins to navigate out of the global pandemic, Oliver Wyman expects the payments market to return to robust growth. The underlying…
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15 June 2021Banks, fintechs, and even nonbank brands are increasingly spoilt for choice when selecting their card issuing partners. Attractive front-end cap…
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23 May 2021Traditional POS devices rely on physical chips to process payments. While they offer high levels of security, they are also inefficient and expe…
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18 April 2021Embedded finance is a burgeoning space with the potential to dramatically reshape the way customers engage with financial services. And yet, dif…
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9 March 2021Modern banking is increasingly open and delivered through financial services embedded in various customer journeys where those services are requ…
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9 March 2021Utah Community Credit Union (UCCU) was the first financial institution to implement Ondot’s Card App, which provides UCCU customers with an easy…
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9 March 2021This award goes to an initiative that fully digitises the end-to-end process for a microloan, shrinking the time for the full process from two w…
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23 February 2021The statement in the title might sound ambitious and perhaps even provocative, but it is based on the responses of more than 100 industry profes…
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8 December 2020Payment Hardware Security Modules (HSM) are the unsung heroes playing a crucial part in securing the payments ecosystem. Their use is mandated b…
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15 October 2020We recently published a report on Leveraging Prepaid to Power Your Next Payment Innovation: Designing and Partnering for Success. The report dis…
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24 September 2020Many who have followed mobile payments for a long time thought that QR codes would only be used short-term, perhaps as a “bridging technology.”…
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6 August 2020Anyone who has bought a gift card is familiar with the concept of a prepaid account: You must load funds before you can spend them. But the prep…
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10 June 2020COVID-19 is a global human tragedy that is also causing a significant economic disruption. Payments is no exception with no major payment flow i…
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15 April 2020Australian Military Bank (AMB) is a niche institution dedicated to serving Australian Defence personnel and their families with products and ser…
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10 September 2021Treasury services is ripe for disruption, as evidenced by the onslaught of fintech and big tech players vying to capture traditional and new rev…
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16 August 2021Much of a bank's corporate banking revenue is attributable to meeting the complex financial operations needs of their business customers, who re…
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16 August 2021Much of a bank's corporate banking revenue is attributable to meeting the complex financial operations needs of their business customers, who re…
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22 July 2021Serving corporate clients requires banks to offer a dizzying array of products and services to manage working capital, liquidity, investments, a…
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28 April 2021In 2019, the Wells Fargo Commercial Banking and Corporate & Investment Banking groups embarked on a multiyear program to reimagine the customer…
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13 April 2021Wholesale banks are delivering high returns. A decade of structural changes in the Markets and IBD businesses has led to more efficient balance…
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10 March 2021Celent recognizes Goldman Sachs as the winner of the 2021 Celent Model Bank Award for Corporate Banking in the Cloud for their initiative Goldma…
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10 March 2021Celent recognizes DBS Group as the winner of the Celent Model Bank 2021 Award for Corporate Digital Banking for their initiative DBS IDEAL Next-…
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3 March 2021When judging Model Bank nominations, Celent looks for innovative and differentiating use of technology, with demonstrable business benefits. Cit…
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22 December 2020In the Fall of 2020, Celent launched its “Future of Cloud in Financial Services” research hub, highlighting our coverage of advances in financia…
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18 December 2020View the next report following this series: Reinventing Small Business Banking Part 2. "People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want…
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15 December 2020As the card industry continues to be under threat from expanding payment types such as faster/instant/real time payments, Mastercard and other t…
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29 September 2020At least $17 trillion is trapped in accounts payable worldwide. This big number represents a huge opportunity in working capital financing. Wher…
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9 September 2020Celent's parent company, Marsh & McLennan, is proud to sponsor the Association for Financial Professionals’ (AFP) 2020 survey that examines the…
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16 August 2020The repercussions of COVID-19 have catapulted working capital optimization to the top of the priority list at banks’ commercial customers. As pa…
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17 August 2020Globally, the financial environment remains in an ultra-low interest rate environment and there is a high probability that interest rates will r…
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15 July 2020A new world of more costly, intrusive, and data-intensive regulatory regimes has challenged ALM practices and operating models to embrace greate…
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2 April 2020Globally, the financial environment remains in an ultra-low interest rate environment and there is a high probability that interest rates will r…
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27 February 2020Within the domain of financial asset-liability (ALM) and balance sheet risk management, next generation technology and emerging digital approach…
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22 January 2018The operational challenges of AML compliance and the technical capabilities of anti-money laundering (AML) software have hit an impasse. This is…
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1 April 2016With systemically important financial institutions expecting to spend in excess of $75 million annually on regulatory stress testing exercises,…
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8 March 2016
Celent analyzes architectural underpinnings, operating models. and market solutions that can enable sustainable future state capabilities for en…
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21 June 2021This year, Celent interviewed 25 chief information officers and senior technology leaders of global market infrastructure (MI) to understand the…
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11 May 2021Risk and compliance functions have traditionally lagged in adopting new technology. But that had started to change in the last 24 months, and th…
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26 February 2021Market Pain Points Risk-centric and market structure regulations continue to create complex requirements that pose integration and information c…
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8 December 2020The world had a tough 2020 but, unlike the 2008 financial markets crisis, this time capital markets emerged as the hero as governments worldwide…
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18 November 2020Risk management has a crucial role to play in keeping financial institutions on an even keel during these turbulent times. This session focuses…
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9 November 2020Broker-dealers continue to watch how the SEC and FINRA interpret and enforce Regulation Best Interest (Reg BI) and Form CRS. On October 26th, th…
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28 October 2020Regulation based on principle will generate uncertainty; such are the challenges of interpretation. In the case of Reg BI, the tests involved in…
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4 October 2020Employee conduct is critical for financial institutions due to the reputational and regulatory risks. It is a complex, enterprise-wide area invo…
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18 September 2020It is imperative for financial institutions to stay competitive in digital financial services. Yet digital architectures bring new risks,with co…
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7 June 2020Improving data management is a journey; in recent years many FIs have been ushering in changes to break down data silos and simplify data archit…
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2 June 2020COVID-19 is prompting dramatic shifts in customer behavior as they exponentially increase the use of digital and remote channels for regular pur…
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8 April 2020March 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…
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2 April 2020We are likely entering a prolonged period of heightened vulnerability to fraud and other financial crime due to criminal activity exploiting COV…
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24 March 2020In my previous post, I proposed a new, virtual model for regulatory reviews, one that leverages the enterprise-wide lens furnished by modern com…
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22 March 2020So-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…
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30 June 2021FX is at the greatest inflection point since Nixon decoupled the dollar from gold in 1971. Foreign exchange (FX), and its technology demands, ar…
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25 May 2020The clock is ticking for financial institutions (FIs) to adequately prepare for the seismic shift from the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR)…
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9 March 2020The (L)IBOR rate which we have all known and loved-then vilified and hated is going away. Regulators and market watchers saw the rate has easily…
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21 February 2019The G-20 mandates are the gift that keeps on giving. Initial Margin (IM) is the latest installment in regulations aimed at reducing risk in OTC…
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21 February 2019Initial margin (IM) requirements are a global regulatory regime intended to limit systemic contagion by offsetting losses if an OTC derivatives…
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17 November 2017Digital technology enablement could augment alpha generation for active managers and stem the erosion against the tidal wave of passive investin…
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15 November 2017Inappropriate conduct has cost the financial services industry a significant amount in direct losses, lawsuits, and fines since the last financi…
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7 October 2014
Celent shares prospective developments from innovative solutions and business models around shared services, utilities, and joint ventures as a…
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3 May 2020Treasury and capital markets divisions at banks continue to struggle with the trilemma of complying with regulatory changes and meeting evolving…
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21 February 2020The race is on to get lean and agile. Unfortunately, capital markets firms continue to struggle with common operational and technology challenge…
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27 November 2019Corporate actions processing has lagged other areas in technology innovation. However, developments in new technology and low-cost operating mod…
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10 September 2019Join us for this presentation by Arin Ray addressing corporate actions automation and how to leverage innovative technology to improving efficie…
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16 August 2019A failure to elect on a corporate action due to an operational error can hurt the beneficiary financially. This exposes the firm to scrutiny abo…
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14 August 2019With a more relaxed US regulatory climate, tax reform and growing cash reserves more public companies are building strategic growth through merg…
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6 August 2019With growing volumes and complexities of corporate actions, intensifying regulatory scrutiny on transparency in corporate governance, and dimini…
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14 May 2019The 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…
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24 January 2019Intelligent automation-enabled tools promise to offer significant operational and efficiency improvements in the middle and back office in capit…
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13 April 2021
Wholesale banks are delivering high returns. A decade of structural changes in the Markets and IBD businesses has led to more efficient balance…
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22 December 2020
In the Fall of 2020, Celent launched its “Future of Cloud in Financial Services” research hub, highlighting our coverage of advances in financia…
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29 September 2020
At least $17 trillion is trapped in accounts payable worldwide. This big number represents a huge opportunity in working capital financing. Wher…
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23 April 2020The 2020 edition of Oliver Wyman's annual report with Morgan Stanley offers an overview of industry trends and analysis in wholesale banking.The…
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14 April 2020Celent recognizes Citias the winner of the 2020 Celent Model Bank Award for Trade Finance and Supply Chain for its initiative Next Generational…
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23 March 2020Our parent firm, Oliver Wyman (OW), is closely monitoring COVID-19 events in real-time and has compiled resources to help clients and the indust…
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9 January 2020THREE EXTERNAL FORCES DRIVING CORPORATE BANKING CHANGE Corporate bankers face a 2020 landscape shaped by three powerful external forces: Corpora…
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13 December 2019Earlier this year I wrote a blog "US Corporate Real-Time Payment (RTP) Adoption: If You Build It, Will They Come?" discussing how at the 2019 NA…
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18 September 2018According to the International Monetary Fund, Asia accounts for nearly two-thirds of global growth, and the region remains the world’s most dyna…
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24 July 2018In 2017 Celent published its leading-edge Connected Corporate Banking series, identifying the digital strategies transforming corporate banking…
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17 July 2018Our corporate banking trends track Celent’s themes of Digital and Omnichannel; Innovation and Fintech; and Legacy and Ecosystem Transformation.…
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21 June 2018This year’s EBAday conference was held in mid-June in Munich, Germany. Always a well-attended, EBAday is a two-day conference hosted by the Euro…
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29 January 2018As banks look to improve the corporate banking customer experience, by upgrading their technology infrastructure, they often turn to digital cor…
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20 December 2017As banks look to transform the corporate banking customer experience by upgrading their technology infrastructure, they often turn to integrated…
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12 October 2017Corporate banking plays a dominant role for the largest global banks. Celent drills down into corporate banking performance and takes a closer l…
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10 August 2021In the last five years, developments in next generation technology such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have advanced…
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3 July 2021Growing regulatory scrutiny, continuously changing watchlists, and the complexities of an increasingly interconnected and international financia…
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8 June 2021Combatting financial crime in the digital era will require financial institutions (FIs) to strengthen and widen their adverse media screening co…
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4 June 2021Scandals over recent years have shown that some institutions are still failing to live up to their obligation to minimize the risk of financial…
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11 May 2021
Risk and compliance functions have traditionally lagged in adopting new technology. But that had started to change in the last 24 months, and th…
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13 April 2021In its inaugural year, Celent Model Risk Manager 2021 program received several high-quality nominations from a diverse mix of financial institut…
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8 March 2021Credit Suisse’s Chief Risk Office in Asia Pacific created a cross-risk platform for risk identification and analysis across financial risk, oper…
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8 March 2021To support the bank’s high growth ambitions from its consumer banking business and fulfil its mission of building a digital bank of the future,…
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8 March 2021United Overseas Bank recognized the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)–powered solutions to strengthen its cont…
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3 March 2021Screening technology is essential not just to performing sanctions checks on wires and payments transactions. Screening also underpins the entir…
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24 February 2021Sanctions screening in many ways underpins anti-money laundering (AML) and counter terrorist financing (CTF) operations at financial institution…
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24 February 2021
When it comes to the capital markets, a shift is underway in the process of application development. This is driven by increasing demands across…
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22 February 2021Digitalization of financial services is creating new products, channels, and business models, and is reshaping customer behavior and expectation…
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12 January 2021Convergence of fraud and anti-money laundering (FRAML) technology and operations has been somewhat of a Holy Grail for financial institutions fo…
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29 November 20202020 was a disruptive year in AML because COVID-19 forced financial institutions to reprioritize planned initiatives and redeploy resources to t…
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8 September 2021North American banks and credit unions are achieving widely varied results with digital account openings. The most effective institutions have t…
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30 March 2021Digital customer acquisition was a white hot topic before the pandemic and has exploded since then. Our March 2021 Digital Banking Panel survey…
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24 March 2021Celent held its digital 2021 Innovation and Insight Week from March 9 – 11, 2021. The theme we explored this year was "Accelerate!” Many of our…
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10 March 2021RBC launched new remote account open tools for personal and business clients. With this, RBC offers clients three convenient ways to open an acc…
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21 September 2020Join Awaad Aamir as he highlights findings from over 30 direct financial institution use cases on wealth management IT spending. Our videocast w…
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13 July 2020Shelter-in-place and attendant work from home have been a litmus test for the state of digitization at banks. Those in the vanguard have fared r…
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8 July 2020Financial inclusion is a tremendous opportunity for many local, regional, and even global banks. Yet capturing it requires specialist capabiliti…
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6 May 2020In today’s post-COVID climate which is in part characterized by limited in-person contact, wealth managers are refocusing their IT investments t…
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28 April 2020A developer portal is more than a repository for API documentation. Celent has been tracking open banking API developer portals since early 2017…
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27 April 2020Digitizing commercial and corporate customer onboarding requires not only resources but also fortitude and perseverance. The size of the prize m…
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24 April 2020Insurtechs and innovation are the disruptors of the insurance world, and in Singapore, there is a unique group of insurtech companies that seek…
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21 April 2020Revelations of lax control in financial institutions’ know your customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML), associated regulatory fines, and…
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16 April 2020Robust levels of organic growth demanded a new approach to business assurance (compliance) at St. James’s Place, a wealth manager serving indivi…
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15 April 2020First Foundation Bank is a $6.3 billion asset institution focused on private wealth management, personal banking, and business banking. Founded…
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15 April 2020
Australian Military Bank (AMB) is a niche institution dedicated to serving Australian Defence personnel and their families with products and ser…
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9 August 2020Reconciliation is a critical part of capital markets operations because the inability to get it right can result in business losses, suboptimal…
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24 January 2019
Intelligent automation-enabled tools promise to offer significant operational and efficiency improvements in the middle and back office in capit…
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21 June 2017Just got back from the FTF Sec Ops Conference in Boston. Front-to-back asset management workflow was the main focus of the conference with some…
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2 August 2021"Generation Investor” was a term coined by Charles Schwab to account for the surge in retail investors who opened their brokerage accounts durin…
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19 July 2021Over the past several years, the CRM vendor landscape has grown significantly in terms of functionality offered to advisors and wealth managers.…
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18 May 2021As the world finally turn the page to a new post-pandemic chapter, the Wealth Management industry has reason for cautious optimism. While much u…
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6 May 2021
There is no denying the wealth management market is telling us that planning software is a must have. Turnkey Asset Management Platform’s (TAMPs…
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29 April 2021
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20 April 2021
While the terminology “direct indexing” is newer, the investment approach is by no means new, as separately managed accounts (SMAs) can and have…
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7 April 2021Celent hosted its 15th annual Innovation & Insight Week (I&I Week) and its fourth annual Model Wealth Manager Awards (Model WM Awards) program o…
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23 March 2021Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing is becoming increasingly popular among global financial institutions and investors. Two ma…
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8 March 2021
Over the past year it has become increasingly clear that digital marketing is the cornerstone of an advisor’s marketing strategy. As such, a fun…
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8 March 2021
Congratulations Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, and BNY Mellon Pershing on being Celent's Model Wealth Manager 2021 award winners! Links to the c…
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25 February 2021North American wealth managers will face a challenging year ahead as a result of volatile macro events, fee compression, and intergenerational w…
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14 December 2020Celent highlights wealth managers’ perspectives about their usage of Front-to-Middle Office platforms. Specifically, wealth managers’ perspectiv…
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8 December 2020
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29 November 2020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…
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4 November 2020While some wealth managers state that a lack of customer digital adoption is a reason for low engagement during the pandemic, the reality is tha…
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30 August 2021In mid 2021, Celent undertook a large, global survey of banks to create a worldwide State of the Nation for payments modernization for non-card…
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15 July 2021
As the world begins to navigate out of the global pandemic, Oliver Wyman expects the payments market to return to robust growth. The underlying…
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7 July 2021In many parts of the world, real-time payments are part and parcel of daily life, and have been for many years. More than 50 countries have syst…
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29 August 2020Celent’s reports on trends in retail banking, corporate banking, payments, and IT spending are regular fixtures on our research agendas and are…
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22 April 2020If payments are core to your business, should you run them as if they are? The one thing that perhaps that unites every customer at every bank i…
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15 April 2020Celent recognizes Silvergate as the winner of the Celent Model Bank 2020 Award for Payments Replatforming. Payments are critical to any bank, bu…
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14 April 2020Celent recognizes PNC as the winner of the Model Bank 2020 Commercial Payments for their Healthcare Payer Enrollment Automation. PNC has a 25 ye…
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13 April 2020Celent recognizes Länsförsäkringar Bank as the winner of the 2020 Celent Model Bank Award for Core Technology Replatforming for its initiative C…
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3 March 2020The payments industry faces many significant changes in the coming years, from standards such as ISO 20022 to Instant Payments to those mandated…
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3 February 2020Celent has been involved with Instant Payments since, well, everyone called them Real Time Payments! Our first report dates back to 2014, and th…
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2 October 2019Banks are facing both cost and revenue pressures, and with increasing demands on their payments processing technology from both customers and re…
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30 September 2019Tomorrow’s the first day of October, and that means it’s time to start preparing for Money 20/20, held October 27-30 in Vegas. I’ve got some pra…
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24 September 2019In many banks, the payments infrastructure is barely suitable for today, let alone tomorrow. Banks face ever more changes, and adding more patch…
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12 June 2019Last week I was back in Amsterdam, at Money20/20 Europe. While I’ve been to the US version of the show every single year since its inception…
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13 May 2019I’ve been attending the NACHA Payments conference for many years, either as a banker, technologist, or industry research analyst. In recent year…
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18 April 2021
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10 March 2021The promise of delivering Americans low-cost and attractive banking services using an efficient, state-of-the-art tech stack has been an allurin…
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10 March 2021This Model Bank report uncovers how Delta Community undertook a multiyear technology and operations transformation project in recognition that f…
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24 November 2020The way in which banking software is being designed, written, deployed, maintained, updated, and replaced has accelerated due to cheaper storage…
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10 November 2020This Celent Blog examines financial institution (FI) cloud adoption drivers and rates, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic (“pandemic”) on FI cl…
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20 July 2020The path to digitization can challenge financial institutions, especially community banks, in several ways. From the provider perspective, small…
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1 June 2020Banking is experiencing a period of business model innovation brought on by the emergence of new market entrants moving the ball forward on cus…
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15 April 2020
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13 April 2020
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4 March 2020The home lending industry is in the early stages of digital disruption that retail deposit, credit card, and personal lending sectors have alrea…
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9 January 20202020 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…
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11 December 2019In the last 10 years, the rise of digital and the evolution of delivery channels have stressed platforms. While technology adaptations have allo…
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30 November 2019In the last 10 years, the rise of digital and the evolution of delivery channels have stressed platforms. While technology adaptations have allo…
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30 November 2019In the last 10 years, the rise of digital and the evolution of delivery channels have stressed platforms. While technology adaptations have allo…
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30 November 2019In the last 10 years, the rise of digital and the evolution of delivery channels have stressed platforms. While technology adaptations have allo…
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18 April 2021
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10 March 2021
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10 March 2021
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24 November 2020
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10 November 2020
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20 July 2020
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1 June 2020
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15 April 2020
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13 April 2020
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4 March 2020
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9 January 2020
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11 December 2019
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30 November 2019
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30 November 2019
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30 November 2019
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18 April 2021
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10 March 2021
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10 March 2021
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24 November 2020
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10 November 2020
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20 July 2020
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15 April 2020
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13 April 2020
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4 March 2020
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9 January 2020
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11 December 2019
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30 November 2019
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30 November 2019
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30 November 2019
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30 June 2021
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21 June 2021
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28 April 2021
Technology-driven change is accelerating in the buy side front office according to senior buy side executives who participated in an exclusive C…
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8 March 2021
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8 March 2021
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19 February 2021
The capital markets industry is doubling down on digital transformation in 2021, and so its senior business and technology executives must quest…
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8 December 2020
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3 December 2020A Year of Extremes… It certainly has been a year of extremes with many superlatives required to describe the situation; but also, a year with pl…
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30 November 2020FicTech is reinventing the fixed income technology space with ever greater speed, with an increasing number of players addressing the issuance a…
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29 November 2020
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27 September 2020Research helps power the investment engine. With investment decision-making getting more advanced, there is an increasing need to manage complex…
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23 June 2020Connectivity is an area of rapid technological change that pulls together many pieces and players that must mesh perfectly, especially in a worl…
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7 June 2020Within the domain of capital markets trading, investing, structuring and risk management, next generation technology and emerging digital approa…
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28 May 2020Celent explores the opportunities and challenges of the morphing sell side front office in this cross asset trading technology piece. The advent…
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25 May 2020
The clock is ticking for financial institutions (FIs) to adequately prepare for the seismic shift from the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR)…
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8 September 2021"Conversions are very risky, painful and are never on-time!"— is this old saying still true for insurance system conversions? Apparently, there…
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18 August 2021The market for IT services continues to grow as providers rebound in the wake of the pandemic. On one end, commoditization of technology infrast…
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14 May 2021The 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…
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30 April 2021COVID-19 presented the global life insurance industry with challenges that have turned into opportunities. New societal realities and customer n…
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4 April 2021The IT services market is dynamic, and vendors active in this market help insurers capture the value of relevant technologies to enhance their d…
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3 April 2021The IT services market is dynamic, and vendors active in this market help insurers capture the value of relevant technologies to enhance their d…
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31 March 2021Insurance BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) sector has seen significant growth in the past owing to increasing customer demands and operational…
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31 March 2021Insurance BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) sector has seen significant growth in the past owing to increasing customer demands and operational…
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10 March 2021This Model Bank report uncovers how Discover Financial Services quickly adjusted to the challenges the pandemic created by enabling its agents t…
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22 January 2021The pressure on the buy side is intense . On the journey to managing operational and regulatory demands in a cost-effective way, investment mana…
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8 December 2020
The world had a tough 2020 but, unlike the 2008 financial markets crisis, this time capital markets emerged as the hero as governments worldwide…
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20 November 2020Insurance companies today face both internal and external challenges that hinder them from becoming more competitive and meeting business goals.…
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11 November 2020Insurance companies today face both internal and external challenges that hinder them from becoming more competitive and meeting business goals.…
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24 September 2020What if, suddenly, everyone stopped driving? COVID 19 just asked an insurance question that has never been posed before. This is the greatest gl…
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17 August 2020The mortgage lending industry is in turmoil for the second time in only a decade as the coronavirus has increased loan delinquencies and affecte…
Research related to FIS Cross-Asset Trading and Risk Platform
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23 July 2021Digitalization of financial services is creating new products, channels, and business models. New players such as digital banks, payment and rem…
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8 July 2021Driven by the imperative for sustainable cost savings and profitability, investment managers are renewing their focus to double down on their co…
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30 June 2021
FX is at the greatest inflection point since Nixon decoupled the dollar from gold in 1971. Foreign exchange (FX), and its technology demands, ar…
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18 May 2021
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…
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11 May 2021
Risk and compliance functions have traditionally lagged in adopting new technology. But that had started to change in the last 24 months, and th…
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29 April 2021
Representatives of the wealth managmenet industry gathered at Celent's Live Wealth Management Session at I&I Week 2021. Under the theme of Accel…
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18 April 2021In a previous installment of this research series, "Operational Alpha on the Buyside: Riding New Waves from Front-to-Back Technology, Data, ESG…
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13 April 2021
In its inaugural year, Celent Model Risk Manager 2021 program received several high-quality nominations from a diverse mix of financial institut…
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11 April 2021Snap polls reflect questions posed by members of the Celent Executive Research Panel, a group of C level executives in the insuranace industry.…
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7 April 2021
Celent hosted its 15th annual Innovation & Insight Week (I&I Week) and its fourth annual Model Wealth Manager Awards (Model WM Awards) program o…
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4 April 2021Despite largely positive AUM growth, sustained growth in active investment remains elusive due to the onslaught of secular headwind factors and…
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8 March 2021Congratulations to Celent's Model Risk Manager 2021 Award winners: Credit Suisse, Fino Payments Bank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Standard Bank, State…
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8 March 2021
Credit Suisse’s Chief Risk Office in Asia Pacific created a cross-risk platform for risk identification and analysis across financial risk, oper…
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8 March 2021
The Portfolio Risk Platform leverages state-of-the-art analytics to identify various elements of risk in client portfolios, down to the security…
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8 March 2021
Congratulations Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, and BNY Mellon Pershing on being Celent's Model Wealth Manager 2021 award winners! Links to the c…
Research related to Wealth Outsourcing Services delivered through Unity
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8 September 2021
"Conversions are very risky, painful and are never on-time!"— is this old saying still true for insurance system conversions? Apparently, there…
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18 August 2021
The market for IT services continues to grow as providers rebound in the wake of the pandemic. On one end, commoditization of technology infrast…
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14 May 2021
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…
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30 April 2021
COVID-19 presented the global life insurance industry with challenges that have turned into opportunities. New societal realities and customer n…
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4 April 2021
The IT services market is dynamic, and vendors active in this market help insurers capture the value of relevant technologies to enhance their d…
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3 April 2021
The IT services market is dynamic, and vendors active in this market help insurers capture the value of relevant technologies to enhance their d…
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31 March 2021
Insurance BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) sector has seen significant growth in the past owing to increasing customer demands and operational…
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31 March 2021
Insurance BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) sector has seen significant growth in the past owing to increasing customer demands and operational…
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10 March 2021
This Model Bank report uncovers how Discover Financial Services quickly adjusted to the challenges the pandemic created by enabling its agents t…
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22 January 2021
The pressure on the buy side is intense . On the journey to managing operational and regulatory demands in a cost-effective way, investment mana…
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8 December 2020
The world had a tough 2020 but, unlike the 2008 financial markets crisis, this time capital markets emerged as the hero as governments worldwide…
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20 November 2020
Insurance companies today face both internal and external challenges that hinder them from becoming more competitive and meeting business goals.…
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11 November 2020
Insurance companies today face both internal and external challenges that hinder them from becoming more competitive and meeting business goals.…
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24 September 2020
What if, suddenly, everyone stopped driving? COVID 19 just asked an insurance question that has never been posed before. This is the greatest gl…
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17 August 2020
The mortgage lending industry is in turmoil for the second time in only a decade as the coronavirus has increased loan delinquencies and affecte…
Research related to Memento Enterprise Fraud Management Suite
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23 July 2021
Digitalization of financial services is creating new products, channels, and business models. New players such as digital banks, payment and rem…
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11 May 2021
Risk and compliance functions have traditionally lagged in adopting new technology. But that had started to change in the last 24 months, and th…
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13 April 2021
In its inaugural year, Celent Model Risk Manager 2021 program received several high-quality nominations from a diverse mix of financial institut…
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8 March 2021Swedbank took SCA (strong customer authentication) regulation in the Euro region as an opportunity to enhance its anti-fraud posture for cards b…
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8 March 2021Fino Payments Bank implemented a modern, AI-enabled enterprise-wide fraud solution across all its channels. The solution, from Clari5, ensures c…
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28 September 2020Financial institutions, and regulators, have traditionally been sensitive to data protection, privacy, and security issues for risk and complian…
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18 September 2020
It is imperative for financial institutions to stay competitive in digital financial services. Yet digital architectures bring new risks,with co…
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7 June 2020
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…
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2 April 2020
We are likely entering a prolonged period of heightened vulnerability to fraud and other financial crime due to criminal activity exploiting COV…
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17 March 2020COVID-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…
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8 January 2020EVOLUTION AND REVOLUTION IN RISK AND COMPLIANCE Risk and compliance in the financial industry is at a watershed moment. While continuing to be h…
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17 January 2019Robotic process automation is a crunch technology that is relatively easy and quick to implement and promises a strong ROI, but a recent string…
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31 May 2018Today, an institution can take two approaches to reduce false alarms. It can either lower risk thresholds to capture more suspicious activities,…
Research related to FIS Private Capital Suite
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11 December 2020The 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…
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20 October 2020The following report provides a high-level landscape of the major vendors within the net asset value (NAV) oversight and contingency ecosystem.…
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16 August 2020During the first half of this year, Celent conducted in-depth conversations with global asset managers about their back office NAV oversight and…
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25 March 2019We did a series of webinars, in-person presentations, and vendor solution reports recently around the asset management investment and risk techn…
Research related to FIS Transfer Agency Services
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3 May 2020
Treasury and capital markets divisions at banks continue to struggle with the trilemma of complying with regulatory changes and meeting evolving…
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23 March 2020Across the asset management industry, structural margin compression, and a stubborn cost base are reshaping strategic and operational priorities…
Research related to FIS Asset Finance
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13 April 2021
Wholesale banks are delivering high returns. A decade of structural changes in the Markets and IBD businesses has led to more efficient balance…
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22 December 2020
In the Fall of 2020, Celent launched its “Future of Cloud in Financial Services” research hub, highlighting our coverage of advances in financia…
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29 September 2020
At least $17 trillion is trapped in accounts payable worldwide. This big number represents a huge opportunity in working capital financing. Wher…
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23 April 2020
The 2020 edition of Oliver Wyman's annual report with Morgan Stanley offers an overview of industry trends and analysis in wholesale banking.The…
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23 March 2020
Our parent firm, Oliver Wyman (OW), is closely monitoring COVID-19 events in real-time and has compiled resources to help clients and the indust…
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9 January 2020
THREE EXTERNAL FORCES DRIVING CORPORATE BANKING CHANGE Corporate bankers face a 2020 landscape shaped by three powerful external forces: Corpora…
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13 December 2019
Earlier this year I wrote a blog "US Corporate Real-Time Payment (RTP) Adoption: If You Build It, Will They Come?" discussing how at the 2019 NA…
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6 February 2019The Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) recently published its annual 2019 AFP Risk Survey Report. The survey, supported by Marsh & Mc…
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18 September 2018
According to the International Monetary Fund, Asia accounts for nearly two-thirds of global growth, and the region remains the world’s most dyna…
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24 July 2018
In 2017 Celent published its leading-edge Connected Corporate Banking series, identifying the digital strategies transforming corporate banking…
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17 July 2018
Our corporate banking trends track Celent’s themes of Digital and Omnichannel; Innovation and Fintech; and Legacy and Ecosystem Transformation.…
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21 June 2018
This year’s EBAday conference was held in mid-June in Munich, Germany. Always a well-attended, EBAday is a two-day conference hosted by the Euro…
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29 January 2018
As banks look to improve the corporate banking customer experience, by upgrading their technology infrastructure, they often turn to digital cor…
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20 December 2017
As banks look to transform the corporate banking customer experience by upgrading their technology infrastructure, they often turn to integrated…
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12 October 2017
Corporate banking plays a dominant role for the largest global banks. Celent drills down into corporate banking performance and takes a closer l…
Research related to Compass
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12 September 2021Group & Voluntary is an active market attracting interest from both existing players and new entrants, many of which would not have existed five…
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8 September 2021
"Conversions are very risky, painful and are never on-time!"— is this old saying still true for insurance system conversions? Apparently, there…
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18 August 2021Application programming interface (API) has been the go-to solution when insurers and technology vendors discuss the way to develop, package, an…
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15 July 2021Real-world examples provide the most concrete way to explore critical questions driving changes in insurance today. As a result, we animated sev…
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30 June 2021Over the past two weeks, I moderated and presented at the 2021 InsureTech Connect Asia and Finovate Asia conferences. The hive of activities has…
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29 June 2021
What does leading-class digital insurance look like today? And what are the key gaps to getting there? We recently explored these questions thro…
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18 December 2020The increasing importance of APIs in financial services has moved the middle layer to a customer facing role. Historically such layers were hidd…
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10 December 2020Although 2020 has certainly been a unique year it hasn’t put a damper on the momentum that has been building over the last few years in the Life…
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3 December 2020The usage of legacy data sources combined with new alternative data sources are transforming underwriting, policy application approval, and issu…
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18 September 2020Can I get to a positive ROI and is the investment going to be worth it if I can't? This is a fundamental question to answer before investing in…
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29 August 2020Conversations in innovation strategy deployments has seen plug-and-play and APIs as the common solution for shipping and serving modular contain…
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24 August 2020As 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…
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5 July 2020Natural language processing (NLP) is the technique to provide semantics to information extracted from optical character recognition engines and…
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29 April 2020Celent reviews every policy adminstration system in all global markets every two years. This report is a companion report to the North American…
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27 April 2020As we head forward into 2020, we are witnessing common acceptance for remote delivery and communication, whereby both client-relationships and i…
Research related to FIS Investment Risk Manager
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13 April 2021
In its inaugural year, Celent Model Risk Manager 2021 program received several high-quality nominations from a diverse mix of financial institut…
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8 March 2021
Credit Suisse’s Chief Risk Office in Asia Pacific created a cross-risk platform for risk identification and analysis across financial risk, oper…
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5 March 2021State Street Global Advisors wanted the ability to monitor macroeconomic risks on its portfolios because it recognized the importance of underst…
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8 December 2020
The world had a tough 2020 but, unlike the 2008 financial markets crisis, this time capital markets emerged as the hero as governments worldwide…
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27 November 2020The strategic importance of value adjustments (XVAs) and counterparty credit risk (CCR) management continues to be in the forefront of capital m…
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25 November 2020This year, COVID market turbulence saw significant losses from capital markets participants, especially dealer and regional banks, associated wi…
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7 June 2020
Within the domain of capital markets trading, investing, structuring and risk management, next generation technology and emerging digital approa…
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28 May 2020
Celent explores the opportunities and challenges of the morphing sell side front office in this cross asset trading technology piece. The advent…
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25 May 2020
The clock is ticking for financial institutions (FIs) to adequately prepare for the seismic shift from the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR)…
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8 April 2020
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…
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9 March 2020
The (L)IBOR rate which we have all known and loved-then vilified and hated is going away. Regulators and market watchers saw the rate has easily…
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7 February 2020Celent in conjunction with Nasdaq interviewed and surveyed 50 senior front office trading and technology staff at global trading firms, broker d…
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8 January 2020
EVOLUTION AND REVOLUTION IN RISK AND COMPLIANCE Risk and compliance in the financial industry is at a watershed moment. While continuing to be h…
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28 November 2019Secular themes are currently playing out throughout the investment sector around alpha generation, cost takeouts and the ongoing digitization of…
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19 November 2019When new lending volume declines and delinquencies rise, loan collections systems become the most important system in the retail bank to protect…
Research related to FIS Global Business Solutions
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8 September 2021
"Conversions are very risky, painful and are never on-time!"— is this old saying still true for insurance system conversions? Apparently, there…
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18 August 2021
The market for IT services continues to grow as providers rebound in the wake of the pandemic. On one end, commoditization of technology infrast…
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14 May 2021
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…
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30 April 2021
COVID-19 presented the global life insurance industry with challenges that have turned into opportunities. New societal realities and customer n…
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4 April 2021
The IT services market is dynamic, and vendors active in this market help insurers capture the value of relevant technologies to enhance their d…
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3 April 2021
The IT services market is dynamic, and vendors active in this market help insurers capture the value of relevant technologies to enhance their d…
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31 March 2021
Insurance BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) sector has seen significant growth in the past owing to increasing customer demands and operational…
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31 March 2021
Insurance BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) sector has seen significant growth in the past owing to increasing customer demands and operational…
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10 March 2021
This Model Bank report uncovers how Discover Financial Services quickly adjusted to the challenges the pandemic created by enabling its agents t…
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22 January 2021
The pressure on the buy side is intense . On the journey to managing operational and regulatory demands in a cost-effective way, investment mana…
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8 December 2020
The world had a tough 2020 but, unlike the 2008 financial markets crisis, this time capital markets emerged as the hero as governments worldwide…
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20 November 2020
Insurance companies today face both internal and external challenges that hinder them from becoming more competitive and meeting business goals.…
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11 November 2020
Insurance companies today face both internal and external challenges that hinder them from becoming more competitive and meeting business goals.…
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24 September 2020
What if, suddenly, everyone stopped driving? COVID 19 just asked an insurance question that has never been posed before. This is the greatest gl…
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17 August 2020
The mortgage lending industry is in turmoil for the second time in only a decade as the coronavirus has increased loan delinquencies and affecte…
Research related to FIS AML Compliance Manager
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10 August 2021
In the last five years, developments in next generation technology such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have advanced…
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3 July 2021
Growing regulatory scrutiny, continuously changing watchlists, and the complexities of an increasingly interconnected and international financia…
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30 June 2021
Over the past two weeks, I moderated and presented at the 2021 InsureTech Connect Asia and Finovate Asia conferences. The hive of activities has…
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8 June 2021
Combatting financial crime in the digital era will require financial institutions (FIs) to strengthen and widen their adverse media screening co…
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4 June 2021
Scandals over recent years have shown that some institutions are still failing to live up to their obligation to minimize the risk of financial…
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11 May 2021
Risk and compliance functions have traditionally lagged in adopting new technology. But that had started to change in the last 24 months, and th…
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13 April 2021
In its inaugural year, Celent Model Risk Manager 2021 program received several high-quality nominations from a diverse mix of financial institut…
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8 March 2021Following its introduction of digital onboarding for retail and business customers in 2019, Standard Bank built a tool for remote uploading of K…
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8 March 2021
Congratulations to Celent's Model Risk Manager 2021 Award winners: Credit Suisse, Fino Payments Bank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Standard Bank, State…
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8 March 2021
Credit Suisse’s Chief Risk Office in Asia Pacific created a cross-risk platform for risk identification and analysis across financial risk, oper…
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8 March 2021
To support the bank’s high growth ambitions from its consumer banking business and fulfil its mission of building a digital bank of the future,…
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8 March 2021In this project HSBC set out with the view of developing an exclusively insurance-focused solution and achieved its goal. Its application of mac…
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8 March 2021
United Overseas Bank recognized the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)–powered solutions to strengthen its cont…
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8 March 2021The virtual “That Was Easy!” button just got e-pushed, machines let us do old things in new ways. During the last year, rapid advances in Data,…
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3 March 2021
Screening technology is essential not just to performing sanctions checks on wires and payments transactions. Screening also underpins the entir…