Insights

• From Nashvegas with Love: Four Impressions from AFP 2024

  28 October 2024

  I just returned from my annual visit to the Association of Financial Professionals (AFP) conference in Nashville. The scoreboard showed I have 1…

• Digital Sovereignty: The Impact on Data, AI, and Next Gen Banking Solutions

  3 October 2024

  Data technology has changed significantly in the past 10 years, but so too has the regulatory and geopolitical environment. A steady stream of r…

• In Search of Shangri-La – the Expensive Pursuit of Data Management in Banking

  25 September 2024

  Data management practices initially came to the fore in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision i…

• Game-Changing Customer Engagement from the Celent GenAI Symposium, 2024

  20 September 2024

  This week Celent held a GenAI Symposium for financial services in the heart of the BigApple – the Westin at Times Square. If you missed the even…

• The Need for Speed! Accelerating Product Agility in Corporate Banking.

  14 September 2024

  It is expensive to run a bank, and even more expensive to enhance banking products and services. Although, on average, corporate banking technol…

• Twenty Years after the Check 21 Act, Billing and Receivables is as Complex as Ever

  8 September 2024

  This year marks the 20th anniversary since the Check 21 Act became effective in the United States. Consumer checks have mostly been replaced by…

• Dimensions: Latin America Corporate Banking IT Pressures & Priorities 2024

  6 September 2024

  Celent’s overarching theme for corporate banking in 2024 is that future success rests on faster, safer, smarter innovation. Banks must deliver t…

• The Canadians are Coming!

  15 August 2024

  Although there are some questions about the exact wording of Paul Revere’s famous announcement from 1775, “the British are coming” will be an in…

• Dimensions: European Corporate Banking IT Pressures and Priorities, 2024 Edition

  14 August 2024

  Corporate banking institutions in Europe are increasing their technology budgets, albeit more slowly than every other region. Across Europe, IT…

• En Garde! New Standards to Thwart Quantum-based Cyber Threats

  7 August 2024

  One emerging theme from the Celent Technology Trends Previsory, Corporate Banking, 2024 Edition related to cybersecurity – specifically the role…

• AI and Data Governance: A New Era for Banks

  19 July 2024

  With its ability to analyze vast amounts of data, identify patterns, and make intelligent predictions, AI has rapidly been adopted across the ba…

• Dimensions: North American Corporate Banking IT Pressures & Priorities, 2024 Edition

  9 July 2024

  Celent’s overarching theme for corporate banking in 2024 is that future success rests on faster, safer, smarter innovation. Banks must deliver t…

• The new Technical Debt in Banking - GenAI

  30 June 2024

  Is that a shocking headline? Clickbait? Last month I had the pleasure of attending the AWS Financial Services Analyst Summit, followed up by the…

• AI Ambition is Fueling Investment in Data Platforms

  13 June 2024

  Celent recently published the Dimensions: IT Pressures and Priorities report series. This annual survey of bank executives worldwide is used to…

• Everyone Drives a Used Car (and, why it’s expensive to modernize a bank)

  23 May 2024

  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…