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Traditional banks and credit unions are increasingly launching new, digital-only brands. Standing up a modern digital-first version of the bank…
Traditional banks and credit unions are increasingly launching new, digital-only brands. Standing up a modern digital-first version of the bank…
I recently had the opportunity to attend FIS Emerald in Orlando, FL from May 26-29, 2024. Lasting over three fast-paced days, this conference is…
Many statistics were presented at the JP Morgan Chase Investor Day 2024. Among them was a statement that the bank would invest (spend) some $17b…
OP Financial Group transformed its unsecured lending servicing, successfully adopting a next-generation cloud-native core platform while re-thin…
Celent is hosting its annual Innovation and Insight Day on March 21st, where we will announce our 2024 Celent Model Bank Award winners. The even…
Revolut has just launched a new eSIM service for its UK customers, to allow them to avoid mobile roaming charges while travelling abroad. The se…
The migration of on premise banking applications to private and public cloud deployment has been underway for over a past decade.Early migration…
Banking and banking technology are undergoing massive change. New business models and market strategies driven by neobanks and fintechs have pus…
Last week the Celent corporate banking team published its annual Technology Trends Previsory: Corporate Banking 2024 Edition which can be downl…
We chatted with Sonny Singh, the Executive Vice-President and General Manager of Oracle Financial Services, about Oracle's cloud-based core bank…
Despite challenges posed by the macroeconomic environment, North American (NA) retail bank technology spending will grow by 3.5% in 2023. The hi…
The current banking crisis in 2023 has so far focused on large regional and national banks that have had liquidity issues leading to a bank run…
Agility is one of the standout technology priorities for retail banks this year. While the operating environment remains challenging, many banks…
Retail banks face an array of pressures around pricing. Competition means banks must create innovative value propositions through bundled capabi…
Celent recently hosted an in-person event, Navigating Turbulence, in New York City. I had the great opportunity to lead the cloud computing sess…
Retail loan origination requires the interplay of many internal and external systems to originate, underwrite, and close a loan. These processes…
I recently had the opportunity to attend FIS Emerald in Orlando, FL from May 26-29, 2024. Lasting over three fast-paced days, this conference is…
Yes, I DO think there is a strong connection between banking technology and sports car racing, so buckle your seat belts. Last week I had the op…
Consumer credit scoring has existed for decades. It evolved from being a custom analytic product used within financial institutions to being a g…
Consumer data privacy laws, regulations, and protections have existed for decades but are being modernized across the globe in response to digit…
Loan origination system (LOS) technology has changed more in the last five years than it had in the previous 20. Market dynamics are shifting as…
The imperative for financial institutions (FIs) to continuously add new technology capabilities drives them to evaluate existing systems to mode…
The UK residential mortgage lending market is large and attractive to financial institutions based on the large transaction sizes and revenue pe…
The migration of on premise banking applications to private and public cloud deployment has been underway for over a past decade.Early migration…
Last week the Celent corporate banking team published its annual Technology Trends Previsory: Corporate Banking 2024 Edition which can be downl…
Among the many US federal policy changes, laws, and Federal Reserve actions initiated during the pandemic, loan forbearance has so far proven to…
Next week’s US Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) Annual Convention in Philadelphia (https://www.mba.org/conferences-and-education/annual-conven…
Despite challenges posed by the macroeconomic environment, North American (NA) retail bank technology spending will grow by 3.5% in 2023. The hi…
The current banking crisis in 2023 has so far focused on large regional and national banks that have had liquidity issues leading to a bank run…
Agility is one of the standout technology priorities for retail banks this year. While the operating environment remains challenging, many banks…
While artificial intelligence has been selectively implemented to help banks fight financial crime, recent breakthroughs in AI technology promis…
Financial crime compliance operations are plagued with perhaps the most severe efficiency and accuracy issues in financial services. Fortunately…
Legacy technology can be a significant barrier to efficient operations in anti-money laundering and financial crime compliance. Banco do Brasil…
OakNorth is integrating climate transition risk into portfolio risk management. ON Climate provides lenders the ability to assess climate transi…
Watchlist screening has become the most-scrutinized area of AML compliance, and vendor solutions are evolving rapidly, driven by AI, machine lea…
Nasdaq and its subsidiary Verafin, just published their first Global Financial Crime Report. The report is making headlines for the size of its…
In 2024, technological turbulence – generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI), digital asset adoption, increased fraud and cyber risk – will r…
When 2023 opened with the scare of an SVB-led financial contagion, financial risk topped the list of CRO concerns. With that crisis averted, ope…
Recorded on October 31, 2023. The first waves of Gen AI are hitting the shore as FIs test use cases in call centers. But Risk Leaders see a tsun…
Financial crime compliance departments at banks and non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) are challenged to keep up with the high volumes of a…
After nearly a year at the helm of Celent's Risk practice, I had the privilege of attending my inaugural Sibos conference. My colleagues Patrici…
The financial industry is facing increasing regulatory demands for assurance around watchlist management and sanctions screening. At first glanc…
What if you could identify and discard risky applicants before you took them through an expensive identity proofing exercise? What if you had a…
Recorded on July 19, 2023. Want to hear more about the current state of technology strategy and investment prioritization in the industry? Our w…
Earlier this week, Google Cloud held an analyst conference to announce its foray into anti-financial crime (AFC) technology. The company launche…
The wealth management industry is on the cusp of transformation – a new paradigm is emerging - driven by advancements in technology. Over the ne…
This report represents the second in the 2-part series “The New Wealth Management Paradigm – From Apps to Agents.” The wealth management industr…
Morgan Stanley Wealth Management is bringing access to portfolio risk insights directly to its financial advisors, embedding risk management cap…
Wealth management firms point to advisor workflow automation as one of the biggest opportunities for boosting productivity and freeing up adviso…
Is the RIA industry being disrupted? After a monumental year from one late-stage WealthTech startup, the answer appears to be yes. WealthTech St…
Client onboarding continues to be a significant pain point for advisors. And new account opening (NAO) is arguably one of the most inefficient a…
This report combines Celent's Banking and Wealth Management research and explains a landscape of technologies that can support better service to…
This report is a companion piece to the Global IT report and focuses solely on North American Wealth Management IT Spending which includes Canad…
With the introduction of ChatGPT, large language models (LLMs) have become a significant part of the AI landscape due to their ability to revolu…
Merrill Advisor Match uses a preference-based matching formula to personalize the way prospective clients find, research, review, and connect wi…
The science of artificial intelligence is complicated. The technologies or sub domains that make up AI such as machine learning and natural lang…
Celent is pleased to award Bernstein Private Wealth Management ("Bernstein”) with the 2023 Celent Model Wealth Manager Award for Essential and E…
Summary In-depth personalization experiences rely on relevant user data, unifying their engagement channels, and creating segments to build firs…
It is well known that advisors spend an inordinate amount of time on non-revenue producing and non-client facing activities. These include admin…
Our upcoming report Advisor Productivity: What’s Technology Got To Do, Got To Do With It? reveals that financial advisors spend an inordinate am…