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WNS’ as-a-service Loan Origination Helps Address Cost & Volume Issues
May 09, 2023, by Andy EfstathiouThe lending business is highly cyclical due to its sensitivity to interest rates, economic cycles, and capital availability to fund loans. According to the Mortgage Bankers Association, these factors are currently driving down mortgage originations, which have fallen 60% y/y in the U.S. in Q4 2022. The decline in originations pressuring the margins of this high-cost activity is th[...]
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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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Mortgage & Loan Industry Facing Profound Changes, Transforms Operational Delivery
Jul 28, 2020, by Andy EfstathiouNelsonHall recently completed a market assessment and forecast report on Transforming Mortgage and Loan Services. We found that the lending industry is undergoing profound operational change as it adapts to slowing loan growth and emerging customer populations that are younger and more technology savvy. For the past two years, lenders have been: Variablizing and reducing the co[...]
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How NS&I Transformed its Digital Banking Customer Experience
Nov 24, 2017, by Andy EfstathiouNelsonHall recently hosted a webinar in which U.K.’s National Savings and Investments (NS&I) discussed how it has transformed its customer experience and operations delivery, and in so doing increased the value of assets managed by 245% and annual contact volumes by 660% while reducing delivery staff by 76% and cost of operations, calculated on a per assets under management[...]
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Amelia Enhances its Emotional, Contextual, and Process Intelligence to Outwit Chatbots
Jul 05, 2017, by John WillmottIPSoft's Amelia NelsonHall recently attended the IPSoft analyst event in New York, with a view to understanding the extent to which the company’s shift into customer service has succeeded. It immediately became clear that the company is accelerating its major shift in focus of recent years from autonomics to cognitive agents. While IPSoft began in autonomics in support o[...]
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Gen 2.0 Customer Analytics in Banking: IBM Operationalizes its Capabilities
Sep 23, 2016, by Andy EfstathiouNelsonHall attended the IBM Forum for Financial Services event in New York this past week, which focused on how bank customers are using IBM’s cognitive offerings. IBM has been investing heavily in services and technologies to enable deeper insight into financial institutions’ customers, starting 18 months ago with the development of Watson-based analytic assets. IBM’s the[...]
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How Retail Banks Prioritize Business Processes for Outsourcing
Mar 30, 2016, by Andy EfstathiouIn the retail banking BPS market assessment I am currently undertaking, several key trends are emerging regarding which processes are being outsourced and why. Banks do not outsource all processes at once, and selecting the highest priority processes to outsource can be reduced to an analysis of two key dimensions: Margin: where profit margins are highest, usually with new processes or produ[...]
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How Banks are Driving Down the Cost of Operations by Deepening Capital Infrastructure
Mar 16, 2016, by Andy EfstathiouFinancial institutions are seeking to deepen their operational capital in order to drive down cost of operations, increasing fixed cost and reducing variable cost (non-linear cost reduction). Here we look at two examples of how institutions are achieving this by partnering with third party operations vendors. Capital Markets Client with Broadridge In this example, Broadridge is providing a p[...]
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Capital Scarcity, Operating Leverage & BPaaS Drive Emerging Partnership Strategies in Financial Services BPS
Jan 21, 2016, by Andy EfstathiouThere has been a recent spate of acquisitions and partnerships among Financial Services BPS vendors which reveals interesting trends. These include the following deals from 2015: HCL and CSC: Two JVs were formed, whereby HCL will operate and expand the existing Core Banking business of CSC. The first JV will focus on account management and delivery governance while the second [...]
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Worldline's Equens Acquisition Set to Change the Face of European Payments Market
Nov 17, 2015, by Andy EfstathiouPayments processor Worldline has agreed to acquire Equens for cash and stock in a multi-part transaction expected to close in Q2 2016, with both parties claiming this to be a transformational deal. Here we take a look at the details of the deal and assess the impact it will have on the European payments market. Criteria for success in payments processing The payment processing industry is a [...]
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HCL Targets Industry-Specific Processes with RPA - Significant Presence Developing in Banking Sector
Sep 17, 2015, by John WillmottHCL began its robotics program in late 2013. Since then HCL has invested ~$1.5m in robotics, (ToscanaBot Automation Framework), via its HCL ToscanaBot center of excellence, which currently employs a team of ~25 personnel and is planned to grow to 50+ personnel by 2016. HCL estimates that its robotics practice currently has an FTE impact of around 2,000 with this expected to grow to ~8,000 FTE impa[...]
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Mastercard, First Data, and TSYS Partner with Apple to Enable Apple Pay for Mobile Payments
Sep 09, 2014, by Andy EfstathiouMastercard, First Data, and TSYS have partnered with Apple to enable Apple Pay for mobile payments. Apple Pay is a mobile payment service. Apple Pay works with iPhone 5, iPhone 6, and Apple Watch through an NFC antenna design, a dedicated chip called the Secure Element, and Touch ID security. Apple Pay can be set up by users with their credit or debit card on file from their iTunes Store acco[...]
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HCL Launches Enterprise Function as a Service to Support Financial Services Firms in Creation of Utility Models
Apr 07, 2014, by John WillmottHCL has launched a service called EFaaS, Enterprise Function as a Service, to address reducing the operations costs of organizations through creation of specialized utilities. The service is initially targeted at capital markets firms, retail banks, and insurance companies and at the finance, procurement, HR, risk & compliance, legal and marketing functions. The EFaaS service has arise[...]
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Worldline Awarded Merchant Acceptance Card Processing Contract by Diners Club
Sep 12, 2013, by Andy EfstathiouWorldline dominates the Belgian marketplace for electronic payments. This contract will provide good growth for Worldline in this market, as Discover and Diners Club have significant (but much smaller than MC or Visa) memberships. However, this is an even bigger win for Diners Club, because they will now have usability with the largest payments network in the Benelux countries for their card membe[...]
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HCL Acquires UFS’ Mortgage BPS Business to Build As-A-Service Consumer Loan Business in U.S.
Jun 19, 2017, by Andy EfstathiouAs discussed in my blog of April 12, 2017, the mortgage processing industry in the U.S. is challenged to remain profitable because, from 2012 to 2016, loans outstanding grew 1.8% per year, while processing costs grew at 7.3% per year. This is leading to industry consolidation and operational restructuring. A recent example of a BPS vendor consolidating in order to drive greater effic[...]
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WNS’ Banking BPS Strategy Focused on FinTech Service Enablement for U.S. Regional Banks
Apr 21, 2017, by Andy EfstathiouNelsonHall attended the WNS analyst conference in New York last week for a business update and to hear about their current initiatives. Here I take a quick look at WNS’ banking industry business specifically, and at how it is focused on applying FinTech to BPS delivery to support large productivity gains for its U.S. regional banking clients. Market conditions are driving c[...]
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Mortgage & Loan Industry Challenged to Achieve Profits, but Turning to FinTech to Drive Efficiency Gains
Apr 12, 2017, by Andy EfstathiouThe mortgage and loan servicing industry is beginning a period of rapid change in the way business process services are delivered. Over the past few years, mortgage portfolios have not grown rapidly. For example, in the U.S., the largest residential mortgage market in the world, loans have grown only 7.3% from year-end 2012 to year-end 2016, a CAAGR of 1.8%. Some lines of loans have [...]
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Top 3 Predictions for Banking BPS & ITS in 2017
Jan 13, 2017, by Andy EfstathiouBased on NelsonHall research conducted during late 2016, I have identified three key predictions for business process services (BPS) and IT services (ITS) in the Banking sector in 2017. 1. Compliance initiatives move from industry headwind to tailwind The first prediction is that compliance operations change initiatives will decline, and the resources released from th[...]
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HCL’s ISV Investments to Drive Legacy Modernization at Global Banks Over Next Ten Years
Nov 29, 2016, by Andy EfstathiouAt HCL’s recent adviser and analyst event, #HCLBigLeap, I spoke with their banking industry executives about HCL’s strategy and activities designed to drive application maintenance and modernization services, and specifically about the key ISV partnerships that are enabling this. Background HCL was founded in 1976, and had a strong focus on manufacturing during its [...]
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Platform-Based BPS: Driving Process Efficiency & New Business Model Adoption in Retail Banks
Jul 07, 2016, by Andy EfstathiouHere I take a look at how platform-based business process services (BPS) is yielding benefits for retail banks – specifically, delivering manual processes with greater efficiency, increasing automation, and delivering transaction products at scale. Delivering manual processes with greater efficiency Retail banking (RB) BPS is a large-scale, mature business with high adop[...]
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Infosys and Wipro Strengthen Multi-Shore Delivery in Ireland Courtesy of AIB
Jul 13, 2015, by Rachael StormonthOn July 3, Infosys announced it has been awarded a multi-year application development and management (ADM) services contract by Allied Irish Banks (AIB). As a strategic partner to AIB, Infosys will: Provide application development and management, and transformation and innovation services Set up a 200-seat facility in Dublin to house staff who will be transferring from [...]
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Payment Vendors' Growth Slows As They Face Two-Year Battle to Preserve Market Share
May 07, 2015, by Andy EfstathiouOver the past few weeks the major payment processing vendors have reported first quarter 2015 financial results, and they show a noticeable slowdown n y/y growth from 2014 (refer to NelsonHall Tracking Service articles for detailed analysis of the quarterly results). Summary results for Q1 2015 (in USD unless stated otherwise) are as follows: Card networks: Mastercard: +2.7%&nbs[...]
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Payments Processing Services Market Heats Up: Financial Results of Six Key Vendors Show What it Takes to Win
Nov 06, 2014, by Andy EfstathiouChanges in banks’ regulatory capital requirements for businesses are leading banks to exit or downsize lines of business and increase the focus on other lines of business. Payments is an area where banks and non-banks are significantly increasing their commitments. Over the next five years the payments industry will change its entire shape, structure, and offerings. In the past, the complexi[...]
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Wipro Raises the Stakes on its Commitment to Mortgage and Loan BPO
Jan 31, 2014, by Andy EfstathiouWipro is to acquire mortgage due diligence and risk management services provider Opus Capital Markets Consultants LLC (Opus CMC) for $75m to enhance its mortgage BPO capabilities. (See tracker article #201521 for acquisition details). Wipro's existing mortgage BPO capabilities include: 850 FTEs in origination and administration BPO BPO services in loan originations and administratio[...]