
To help our clients navigate challenges facing the industry, Celent has developed a new, enhanced approach for tracking financial institution IT…
To help our clients navigate challenges facing the industry, Celent has developed a new, enhanced approach for tracking financial institution IT…
This report is a companion piece to the Global IT report and focuses solely on North American Wealth Management IT Spending which includes Canad…
Figure 1: Reconciliations past, present and future. This report is a high level overview of the reconciliation technology that is evolving and o…
When it comes to the capital markets, a shift is underway in the process of application development. This is driven by increasing demands across…
The 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…
The world had a tough 2020 but, unlike the 2008 financial markets crisis, this time capital markets emerged as the hero as governments worldwide…
Celent research shows that pandemic effects are acting as a catalyst to change imperatives across the investment operations value chain. Specifi…
Investment accounting represents a critical back office function for investment managers, insurers, and corporates—especially when intertwined w…
Shifting end-user demands toward fewer strategic vendor relationships are pressuring vendors to connect more broadly with other providers. Throu…
New requirements spanning multiple regulatory, tax, and accounting regimes— nuanced by strategy, fund type, investor segment and asset class— ar…
The following report provides a high-level landscape of the major vendors within the net asset value (NAV) oversight and contingency ecosystem.…
During the first half of this year, Celent conducted in-depth conversations with global asset managers about their back office NAV oversight and…
Treasury and capital markets divisions at banks continue to struggle with the trilemma of complying with regulatory changes and meeting evolving…
Across the asset management industry, structural margin compression, and a stubborn cost base are reshaping strategic and operational priorities…
The race is on to get lean and agile. Unfortunately, capital markets firms continue to struggle with common operational and technology challenge…
A recent survey conducted by Oliver Wyman indicates that retail investors have grown more comfortable with using generative AI (GenAI) for finan…
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…
Morgan Stanley is the first major global wealth management firm to incorporate fractional share allocation as an integral component of its UMA a…
Wealth management firms point to advisor workflow automation as one of the biggest opportunities for boosting productivity and freeing up adviso…
User experience was flagged in our 2022 Previsory and we continued to see momentum build through 2023 and into 2024. User (UX) and customer (CX)…
Is the RIA industry being disrupted? After a monumental year from one late-stage WealthTech startup, the answer appears to be yes. WealthTech St…
The announcement yesterday (October 19) that DTCC is acquiring the blockchain fintech Securrency is a resounding signal to the global financial…
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 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…
The science of artificial intelligence is complicated. The technologies or sub domains that make up AI such as machine learning and natural lang…
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…
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…
For insurance and institutional clients, efficient portfolio optimization and operational agility from the standpoint of dynamic adaptation and…
OakNorth is integrating climate transition risk into portfolio risk management. ON Climate provides lenders the ability to assess climate transi…
Fractional share trading for equities and ETFs is not new. Widespread adoption of fractionals in mostly brokerage accounts were spurred on by th…
Private market asset managers were not immune from the post-pandemic, macroeconomic headwinds and recent market volatility – with operating marg…
Over the past decade, institutional investors’ quest for higher returns and portfolio diversification in an era of low interest rates and favora…
This report is a companion piece to the Global IT report and focuses solely on North American Wealth Management IT Spending which includes Canad…
On 12th June 2023 (just yesterday), Nasdaq announced their intentions to acquire Adenza (which itself was created from the coming together of Ca…
On 27 Apr 2023, Deutsche Boerse announced a takeover of SimCorp to combine its existing data & analytics subsidiaries Qontigo and ISS under the…
As investment firms and investors contemplate how to integrate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues into their investing decisions…
Corporate pension plan sponsors conventionally operate in an “analog mode” where they have limited access to investment advice, with timely or r…
Profound shifts born from the wave of regulatory, capital, passive investing, and fee compression trends are continuing to alter the investment…
The demand for applications is growing faster than the supply of developers to deliver them. A new era of low/no-code development is emerging, w…
Last month I was honored to participate in the TradeTech FX annual conference in Miami, FL, and to assist by hosting a keynote interview and mod…
Driven by the imperative for sustainable cost savings and profitability, investment managers are renewing their focus to double down on their co…
Despite largely positive AUM growth, sustained growth in active investment remains elusive due to the onslaught of secular headwind factors and…