
Since the financial crisis, transaction banking and commercial lending have become essential revenue streams for banks, characterized by low cap…
Since the financial crisis, transaction banking and commercial lending have become essential revenue streams for banks, characterized by low cap…
Celent’s overarching theme for corporate banking in 2024 is that future success rests on faster, safer, smarter innovation. Banks must deliver t…
I've just returned from EBAday, the annual summit for leading payments and transaction banking executives, held in beautiful Lisbon, Portugal, t…
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…
Corporate Banking IT spending continues to grow – even accelerate in most regions – from 2023 through to 2025. Some of these increases will be e…
Over the past few years, Celent has highlighted significant new entrants or solutions launched into the US Cash Management market. Goldman Sachs…
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…
During a challenging year for the broader US banking industry in 2023, the largest US banks demonstrated their resilience by experiencing signif…
In recent weeks I’ve had several conversations with some of the largest financial services technology companies and banks about adoption of publ…
Each year, Oliver Wyman (our parent company) partners with Morgan Stanley Research to publish an industry outlook for Wholesale Banking. This ye…
Asia’s economic and banking landscape is far from homogeneous. The region has a diverse mix of small and large countries with widely varying lev…
Last week the Celent corporate banking team published its annual Technology Trends Previsory: Corporate Banking 2024 Edition which can be downl…
The economic shocks of 2022 and early 2023 appear to have calmed, but geo-political and financial conditions remain far from easy for banks and…
Sub-accounts and virtual accounts are not new, but interest from large corporates has increased in recent years. Pioneered with multinational co…
Many of the largest banks have invested in corporate virtual account management (VAM) solutions – primarily to help larger clients with complex…
Since the financial crisis, transaction banking and commercial lending have become essential revenue streams for banks, characterized by low cap…
Historically, banks have faced challenges providing comprehensive cash position and forecasting solutions due to limited access to transaction d…
Celent’s overarching theme for corporate banking in 2024 is that future success rests on faster, safer, smarter innovation. Banks must deliver t…
I've just returned from EBAday, the annual summit for leading payments and transaction banking executives, held in beautiful Lisbon, Portugal, t…
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…
Corporate Banking IT spending continues to grow – even accelerate in most regions – from 2023 through to 2025. Some of these increases will be e…
Over the past few years, Celent has highlighted significant new entrants or solutions launched into the US Cash Management market. Goldman Sachs…
There is a tendency to talk about “buy versus build” development paradigms for banking solutions. Today, with the rapid changes in technology ar…
Bank of Montreal (BMO) completed the acquisition of Bank of the West in February 2023 and converted and migrated almost two million customer rel…
In 2018, Deutsche Bank embarked on CRAFT, a five-year program to overhaul the technology underpinning the bank’s global credit risk function, a…
Integrating and embedding financial data into ERP and TMS systems lies at the heart of a modern treasury organization. However, outdated legacy…
Global trade has been a driving force behind human civilization, fostering connections between cultures and regions through commerce. Banks play…
Super-regional banks in the US face a unique, competitive environment. They compete not only with the largest global money center banks but also…
Customer experience can be a major factor in driving brand awareness and revenue growth in corporate banking. The beginning of a client relation…
For many years Microsoft Excel was the staple application of finance teams. Perhaps one of the earliest “no-code” solutions, the combination of…
Celent has released a new report specifically for digital banking channel owners that covers specialized fintech, rising competition from non-ba…
Truist Financial Corporation wins the Celent Model Risk Manager Award 2023 for Responding to Emerging Risks for its Password Lock initiative. C…
Over three weeks in September 2022, Celent Banking team ran an online survey where we invited our contacts in the industry – clients and non-cli…
I am very pleased to share a new report that has just been released by Oliver Wyman, Celent's parent company: The Growing Significance of Truste…
Faced with historically high inflation and energy bills, increasing interest rates, and continued geopolitical and economic uncertainty, consume…
Banks around the world are at different levels of maturity in managing customer identities. The specific strategies and approaches for identity…
A customer account — whether at a fintech or a bank — opened without appropriate controls is dangerous, while an inactive one is worthless. Plai…
Over the years, industry analysts have learned to take some vendor claims with a grain of salt. So, when coming across a company named MIRACL, o…
If you are like most banks, you, or at least your colleagues, have lately been busy improving your digital account opening capabilities, includi…
Just a few weeks ago, I published a Celent report on Customer Identity Management Today and Tomorrow, summarising findings from the interviews w…
Not surprisingly, identity management and authentication topics are high on banks’ agenda. The stakes are high—get it wrong, and you’ll be deali…
Digital customer acquisition was a white hot topic before the pandemic and has exploded since then. Our March 2021 Digital Banking Panel survey…
Robust customer identity verification and authentication capabilities are essential for delivering a smooth customer experience, from applicatio…
COVID-19 has prompted many Wealth Management firms to reevaluate investment priorities for 2020 and beyond. The following report attempts to pro…
First Foundation Bank is a $6.3 billion asset institution focused on private wealth management, personal banking, and business banking. Founded…