Technology Trends Previsory
What’s a previsory? The word is a combination of pre-view and ad-visory, a view of financial services technology trends that our clients should have on their radar. We’ve sifted through the noise and the hype to help you identify and prioritize the trends to watch. We’re looking forward intentionally to help you develop a perspective and potential technology plan. We hope that this series of previsory webinars and reports expands your horizons and sparks new ideas.
Technology Trends Previsory Webinars, 2025 Edition
Navigating the Future: Integrating AI and Data Governance for A Resilient Financial Services Industry
November 6-21, 2024
As the excitement around generative AI settles, the industry is shifting its focus toward practical implementations and sustainable growth. How can financial institutions leverage AI not just as a tool, but as a strategic partner to enhance operational efficiency while ensuring robust data management and governance? What role will AI play in delivering exceptional client experiences and preparing infrastructures for an ever-evolving future?
Join our experts for our Technology Trends Previsory 2025 webinar series as they unveil the key themes and trends set to shape the industry in 2025. Are we officially navigating calmer waters? Register today to find out and uncover the insights you need for a successful 2025.
From Tech Stagnation to Innovation: Redefining Wealth Management
Recorded on November 6, 2024.
How will the combination of NextGen technology, open ecosystems, and the essential “human touch” redefine the roles of wealth management professionals? How can wealth managers thoughtfully adopt tools like AI, machine learning, and data analytics to not only streamline processes but also create more personalized client experiences?
Watch our Wealth Management: Technology Trends Previsory 2025 webinar as we explore the transformative shift in the wealth management ecosystem, moving from stagnation to a future defined by rapid integration and innovation, and discover how the future of wealth management can be both innovative and human-centric.
Harnessing Gen AI and Machine Learning to Transform Risk & Compliance
Recorded on November 7, 2024.
2025 is shaping up to be a transformative year for risk and compliance with the global surge in fraud, intensifying regulations across risk and compliance, and the continuing evolution of data sharing. How can risk professionals leverage transformer-based technologies – including LLMs – machine learning and other next-gen technologies to effectively manage these challenges?
Watch our on-demand webinar, Risk Management: Technology Trends Preview 2025, to gain the insights you need to stay ahead of the curve.
Leveraging AI to Build a More Efficient Enterprise in P&C Insurance
Recorded on November 12, 2024
With P&C carriers facing high costs of doing business, taking friction out of business processes is a path to balancing the books without sacrificing growth. The rapidly advancing world of artificial intelligence – in generative and machine-learning forms – is opening the door for insurers to identify and price risks accurately and efficiently in a dynamic market. But to take full advantage, carriers must build digital customer journeys on a foundation of data governance, auditable algorithms, and computing power.
Our P&C Insurance: Technology Trends Previsory 2025 webinar dives into how this new world of insurance will impact you and provide insight into how you can stay ahead of the curve.
Modernizing Products and Solutions in Life & Annuity
Recorded on November 13, 2024
Life insurance carriers are increasingly taking a greenfield approach to digital transformation, choosing to build new products and channels on new technology while moving legacy products toward sunset along with their underlying technology. This has the potential to slowly but surely change the character of the life and annuity sector over the next several years. With advances in artificial intelligence – specifically generative and machine-learning – as well as other avenues of automation in underwriting and distribution, it's clear that the time is now for carriers to build toward a new era.
Watch our Life Insurance: Technology Trends Previsory 2025 webinar on-demand to understand the early development of this new world of insurance and learn the insight into how you can join leading peers.
Balancing Conflicting Priorities in Retail Banking
Recorded on November 19, 2024
Retail banks don’t have it easy – customers expect them to be at the forefront of innovation making the most of the latest technologies such as Gen AI, while competitive and regulatory pressures continue to intensify. Furthermore, geopolitical uncertainty brings macro-level risks, while criminals are rapidly adopting the same latest technologies to keep the banks’ fraud and risk departments busy. How can banks become more efficient and resilient while delivering innovative and strategic initiatives?
Watch our Retail Banking: Technology Trends Previsory 2025 webinar to discover the essential insights and strategies you need to help you stay ahead in the evolving landscape of retail banking.
Rethinking Technology Strategy for Corporate Banking Amid Geopolitical Tensions
Nov. 20 @10am EST/4pm CET
As we near the end of 2024, the macroeconomic and geopolitical landscape remains challenging. These dynamics have the potential to reshape economic and regulatory policies worldwide in the coming year. At the same time, banks are grappling with heightened cyber threats while beginning to embrace the transformative changes brought by Generative AI. From optimizing their technology infrastructure to scaling data and AI solutions that enhance employee efficiency and enable next-generation product capabilities, 2025 promises to be a pivotal (and costly) year for bank product and technology organizations.
Join our Corporate Banking: Technology Trends Previsory 2025 webinar to explore these critical trends and discover the strategies you need to stay ahead in 2025.
Striking the Right Balance Between ROI and Innovation in Capital Markets
Nov. 21 @10am EST/4pm CET
When it comes to technology decisions, financial institutions continue to face new challenges in capital markets while striving to maximize return on investment (ROI). However, this must be balanced with a need to support innovation. It's no longer just a question of adopting the latest tech trends, but rather making strategic decisions that drive transformation and provide optionality for the business. This forward-looking Previsory Report series identifies key upcoming business trends driving technology strategy and investment across asset management and securities trading in 2025.
Join Capital Markets: Technology Trends Previsory 2025 webinar to help formulate winning tech strategies that align with your business best, giving you a competitive edge.
Previsory Reports, 2025 Edition
In our annual Top Technology Trends Previsory report, Celent highlights the transformative shift in the wealth management ecosystem, moving from relative tech stagnation to a future characterized by accelerated integration and innovation, where the blend of NextGen technology, open ecosystems, and the “human touch” will redefine the role of wealth management industry players. Learn more in our annual Top Technology Trends Previsory: Wealth Management report.
2025 is shaping up to be a transformative year for risk and compliance with the global surge in fraud, intensifying regulations across risk and compliance, and the continuing evolution of data sharing. How can risk professionals leverage transformer-based technologies – including LLMs – machine learning and other next-gen technologies to effectively manage these challenges? Discover more in our annual Top Technology Trends Previsory: Risk & Compliance report.
As P&C carriers contend with rising operational costs, streamlining business processes presents a viable strategy for achieving financial balance while still pursuing growth. The rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence—encompassing both generative and machine learning—offers insurers the opportunity to accurately and efficiently assess and price risks in a dynamic market. However, to fully leverage these advancements, carriers must establish digital customer journeys supported by robust data governance, transparent algorithms, and sufficient computing power. Discover more in our annual report, Top Technology Trends Previsory: P&C Insurance.
Life insurance carriers are increasingly adopting a greenfield strategy for digital transformation, opting to develop new products and channels using modern technology while gradually phasing out legacy products and their supporting systems. This approach has the potential to significantly reshape the life and annuity sector over the coming years. With advancements in artificial intelligence—particularly in generative and machine learning—as well as other automation technologies in underwriting and distribution, the time is ripe for carriers to embrace this new era. Learn more in our annual report, Top Technology Trends Previsory: Life Insurance.
2025 will be another year of change and opportunity for retail banking. Technology budgets are expected to increase by over 5% on average, as institutions look to push ahead in unlocking efficiency improvements across their estates, while also delivering enhanced products and experiences to customers. Building the foundations for next-generation banking is a growing priority, and the degree to which banks are successful at delivering simplification, modernisation, and resilience will influence the shape of the future competitive landscape. Celent has identified the five business and technology trends that will dominate the industry in 2025. Learn more in our annual report, Top Technology Trends Previsory: Retail Banking.
Previsory Reports, 2024 Edition
With costs escalating across the insurance value chain, it may not seem like the ideal time to push the envelope on digital transformation. But with insurers facing unprecedented trials from the economy, global unrest, the environment, and policyholders, it’s clear that the processes of the last century must finally be put to bed. We look at what happened this year, outlining the silver tech linings from among the gloomy macroeconomic clouds, and look to the next year to seize this moment and look for new opportunities rather than retrenching.
In many ways, 2023 was a transitional year between an era defined by the upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic and the era defined by a new series of crises. From inflationary pressures to the blazingly fast adoption of generative AI, as well as revolutionary changes to the workplace and professional life, the insurance industry faces threats to some of its most long-established processes. This guide will help carriers spend 2024 being proactive rather than reactive.
In many ways, 2023 was a transitional year between an era defined by the upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic and the era defined by a new series of crises. From labor shortages to the blazingly fast adoption of generative AI, as well as revolutionary changes to the workplace and professional life, the insurance industry faces threats to some of its most long-established processes. This guide will help carriers spend 2024 being proactive rather than reactive.
In this report Celent examines how these themes are affecting, and going to affect, sell side businesses in 2024 and beyond. The themes have been identified by the Capital Markets team based on our ongoing research and forward-looking discussions with industry executives. We also highlight the key technologies relevant to each theme.