Colin Kerr

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Dimensions: Corporate Banking IT Pressures & Priorities Global 2025 Edition

1 month ago | celent.com | Colin Kerr |Gareth Lodge

IT spending in corporate banking will continue to grow from 2024 through to 2026 – even accelerating in most regions. Some of these increases will be eroded by inflation, and there is also a clear trend toward focusing investments that improve how the bank is run rather than toward innovation and growth initiatives. Top-level drivers of investment have subtly changed, with security and operational resilience jumping into the top three top three drivers or themes for the first time.
Corporate Banking Dimensions: IT Pressures & Priorities Webinar; 2025 Edition

1 month ago | celent.com | Colin Kerr |Gareth Lodge

As we move into 2025, the landscape for banks and their clients may shift back towards uncertainty, despite improvements in market conditions and risks observed in 2024. With the rapid adoption of new technologies, banks are under pressure to demonstrate the returns on their investments while effectively managing risk. Has this evolving environment led to a re-evaluation of strategic and product priorities within banks?
Decoding Corporate Digital Banking Platforms: Spotlighting Functionality and Technology Innovation

Jan 21, 2025 | celent.com | Patricia Hines |Colin Kerr

21 January 2025 Since the financial crisis, transaction banking and commercial lending have become essential revenue streams for banks, characterized by low capital costs and significant investments in technology infrastructure to cater to the complex needs of corporate clients. However, recent interest rate cuts by major central banks are reshaping the financial landscape, leading to a slowdown in transaction banking revenue growth.
Faith column: God needs a trademark

Dec 8, 2024 | postandcourier.com | Colin Kerr

Sometimes we all wonder why God doesn’t do certain things. Why doesn’t He stop this pandemic or end that war? Or perhaps even more important to some people, why hasn’t the Big Man up there let the Detroit Lions ever get to a Superbowl? But let’s add a conundrum you probably haven’t sent heavenward: Why hasn’t God trademarked His name yet? Think about it.
Transforming Digital Banking at Fifth Third Bank with AWS

Nov 25, 2024 | celent.com | Michael Bernard |Colin Kerr

25 November 2024A Celent Case Study Celent analyzes a digital transformation. Fifth Third Bank adopted an agile mindset and modernized its internal architecture, positioning the bank to innovate rapidly and setting up a significant competitive advantage. Key components of modernization include the adoption of cloud technology from Amazon Web Services (AWS), shifting software development efforts toward microservices delivery, and a restructuring of the product organization.
Atomic Banking - Here Come the Jetsons

Nov 22, 2024 | celent.com | Colin Kerr

As enterprises (including banks) push their technology boundaries with new workloads and AI adoption, our demand for energy increases (as do questions about how it is created). At the tip of that spear are the cloud data centers of major hyperscalers. In the United States, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission reports that demand for electricity is now projected to grow at 4.7% per year for the next 5 years – that’s a big jump from the 2022 forecast of only 2.6% per year.
Digital Sovereignty: The Impact on Data, AI, and Next-Gen Insurance Solutions

Nov 21, 2024 | celent.com | Colin Kerr |Keith Raymond

Digital and data sovereignty is a legal construct, but with significant physical implications on the way technology and data assets are implemented and managed. The agenda is driven in part by security, but also political ambitions for digital independence, which can be thought of much like energy independence. Energy supply risks in Europe were exposed by the war between Ukraine and Russia.
Top Technology Trends Previsory: Corporate Banking, 2025 Edition

Nov 19, 2024 | celent.com | Alenka Grealish |Patricia Hines |Colin Kerr |Gareth Lodge

20 November 2024 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.
Technology Trends Previsory Webinar: Corporate Banking; 2025 Edition

Nov 19, 2024 | celent.com | Alenka Grealish |Colin Kerr

Recorded on November 20, 2024As 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.
Digital Sovereignty: The Impact on Data, AI, and Next-Gen Wealth Management Solutions | Celent

Nov 13, 2024 | celent.com | Colin Kerr |Ashley Longabaugh

•Digital and data sovereignty is a legal construct, but with significant physical implications on the way technology and data assets are implemented and managed. The agenda is driven in part by security, but also political ambitions for digital independence. So too does the EU have concerns about overreliance on technology services by foreign providers, as well as the extent to which they fall under the legal jurisdiction and political influence of their home governments.