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Financial Institutions Using IA to Deliver Greater Operational Agility
Apr 14, 2023, by Andy EfstathiouIn the financial services industry, there was an initial expectation that demand for intelligent automation (IA) would fall off as clients changed platforms and moved to a microservices architecture. Instead, the application of IA in financial services has grown rapidly. The initial evidence from my current study shows that despite challenges deploying the technology effectively, the[...]
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Financial Industry Driven to Transform Operational Delivery to as-a-service
Apr 06, 2023, by Andy EfstathiouNelsonHall recently completed a market assessment and forecast report on Transforming Financial Services with Cloud, SaaS, and BPaaS Services. It reveals that the financial services industry is responding to the industrialization of cloud services from hyperscalers and IT services vendors by transforming its platforms to microservices architectures and then moving them to the cloud. [...]
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AI FinTech: What to Expect in 2023
Dec 09, 2022, by Andy Efstathiou2022 has been a very strong year for IT services firms delivering cloud, digital, and AI services to the financial services industry. 2023 looks to be a very different year for these vendors as they are finding it difficult to hire skilled resources, find clients able to fund new large projects, and partner in strategic growth areas. Successful BFS technology consultants will need to[...]
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Data Management & Operational Agility Key to Mortgage & Loan Industry Transformation
Oct 10, 2022, by Andy EfstathiouIn NelsonHall’s recently published market assessment, Transforming Mortgage and Loan Services, we found that lenders are changing their approach to mortgage and loan operations from a focus on BPS and integration services to a focus on cloud migration and data management services. The goal for lending institutions today is to be able to support open ecosystem models, new pro[...]
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Capgemini’s ESG Services Focused on Scope 3 Carbon Reduction & Advanced Reporting
Aug 15, 2022, by Andy EfstathiouESG is a hot, but poorly defined, topic. Many firms and investors have started ESG programs, but recent allegations of “greenwashing” and ineffectiveness have undermined confidence in them. So, what are the components of an effective ESG program? ESG is a wide set of dissimilar goals (e.g., carbon emissions reduction is very different than social inclusion). By focusing deeply[...]
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EY Managed Services Driving Increased Efficiency for Clients
Jun 27, 2022, by Andy EfstathiouI recently attended the EY Managed Services Analyst Summit. EY’s managed services business just finished a gangbuster year, growing 30% over the prior year, with some sub-segments growing at rates up to 150% y/y. Managed services is EY’s fastest growing line of business, justifying EY’s 12-year-long commitment to this business. Here I look at EY’s managed serv[...]
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Capgemini’s Approach to Building DeFi Offerings
Mar 25, 2022, by Andy EfstathiouIndustry background Financial services are very centralized, with exchanges, central banks, and custodians delivering platform-based services to any user who wants to make a financial transaction or own a financial asset/liability. Decentralized finance, DeFi, is a financial system built on distributed ledger technology (DLT or blockchain) that allows a user to transact and own w[...]
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Digital Banking Driving Profound Change in Financial Services
Feb 23, 2022, by Andy EfstathiouIn NelsonHall’s newly published market assessment, Digital Banking Services: Transforming the Financial Services Industry, we found that financial institutions are changing their approach to digital services: from a focus on digital channels and CX to a focus on rapid solution development, cloud migration, data management, and STP. The goal for financial institutions today i[...]
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How Xebia is Helping Banks Improve Key Processes
Jan 13, 2022, by Andy EfstathiouDigital transformation has accelerated in the banking industry since the start of the pandemic. This blog describes some recent digitalization activities a bank undertook with Xebia to improve its customer contact processes and provide differentiated service with increased efficiency. The challenge A U.S.-based neo bank began experiencing ongoing high call volumes in its call [...]
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Two High-Growth Areas for Banking ITS & BPS in 2022
Jan 11, 2022, by Andy EfstathiouIn 2022, the financial industry will continue to focus on building out its cloud and digital services infrastructure. This will be a deepening of capabilities for banks that have started their transformation, and the start of the journey for institutions that have not yet initiated their transformation. The growth rate of digital transformation is very high at ~20%. Since most tec[...]
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Kyndryl: Key Lessons in Moving a BFS Provider to the Cloud
Dec 20, 2021, by Andy EfstathiouOn December 15, 2021, Kyndryl and Viewpointe announced a cloud migration, modernization and management contract. The engagement provides insight for BFS executives into how banking services operations vendors are moving to the cloud to simplify operational delivery and enable business model change to expand and improve their business. Current state Viewpointe provides conte[...]
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Wipro/Capco Union: How Disciplined Execution is Driving Growth
Nov 25, 2021, by Andy EfstathiouWipro acquired Capco six months ago, and is Wipro’s largest ever acquisition which, if successful, should enable it to compete with tier-one technology and management consulting firms in large-scale, domain critical, transformation projects with financial institutions. However, successful unions are not created at the strategic level, but with disciplined execution that driv[...]
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Capgemini’s Toolbox to Accelerate Payment Transformation
Oct 27, 2021, by Andy EfstathiouThe payments industry has been transforming away from physical payments and electronic closed networks into an open network, all-digital payment ecosystem, and the pandemic has accelerated this shift. From the consumer’s perspective, this has been characterized by: A move to e-commerce and m-commerce, away from brick-and-mortar commerce Aggressively reduced use of tradi[...]
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Keys to Success for Banking ESG Programs
Sep 27, 2021, by Andy EfstathiouEnvironmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) is a popular topic of conversation and one that most corporations claim to be actively pursuing. The financial industry is particularly active in ESG, and here I look briefly at what is being done to support ESG initiatives by IT services and BPS vendors who support financial institutions’ operations. How vendors he[...]
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WNS: Helping B2C Digital Startup Banks to Scale Rapidly
Aug 16, 2021, by Andy EfstathiouDigital startup banks are built on FinTech functionality to deliver financial services in an omnichannel environment. There are two types of FinTechs: B2B businesses that have a proprietary platform to deliver service to clients, and B2C businesses that provide clients with an all-digital banking experience. WNS: expanded focus on B2C FinTechs While WNS supports B2B and B2C, it[...]
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Infosys’ Toolbox to Accelerate Banks’ Enterprise Journeys to the Cloud
Jun 22, 2021, by Andy EfstathiouBanks are accelerating their move to the cloud to respond to the pandemic, enable greater operational agility to reduce time to market, and develop open banking capabilities. At the same time, performance dispersion (the operational variance across institutions within the industry) has increased significantly. Cloud delivery can change operational performance and hyperscale busine[...]
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Capgemini’s Framework for Digital Transformation in the Financial Sector
May 18, 2021, by Andy EfstathiouThe pandemic has accelerated the adoption of digital transformation across all industries, and in the financial sector, operational transformation has grabbed the top spot in the priority list for investment and spending. At the same time, performance dispersion (the variance across institutions within the industry) has significantly increased. So, how can banks make their transfo[...]
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Intelligent Automation Driving Profound Changes in Financial Services
Apr 08, 2021, by Andy EfstathiouNelsonHall recently published a market assessment and forecast report on Intelligent Automation in Banking: Transforming Operations. We found that financial institutions must automate their operations if they are to compete successfully in a rapidly evolving marketplace. Currently, they operate with manual processes using a heterogeneous set of platforms, acquired over many years of [...]
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3 Key Growth Segments for Banking ITS & BPS in 2021
Dec 18, 2020, by Andy EfstathiouBanks will spend 2021 pursuing different aspects of three key initiatives that have become more important since the advent of COVID-19. The first is process automation, which has become more important but needs to increase its delivery effectiveness. The second, work-from-home (WFH) has also accelerated under COVID-19 but will need to change in 2021 to continue to be effective.[...]
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How Capgemini is Targeting Improved Wealth Advisory Services
Nov 03, 2020, by Andy EfstathiouIt has been extensively reported that industries requiring in-person interaction, such as travel and entertainment, have been adversely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Less obvious has been the impact on industries that are often typified by remote delivery. For example, the wealth and asset management industry is primarily driven by the long-term buildup of wealth and involves in[...]
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