I had the pleasure of attending the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) Annual Conference in Miami Beach this week with several of my colleagues in the Celent banking team. The venue was well attended. I can say it was much more comfortable inside the convention center than being in the Miami hot and humid weather. [...]

There is a lot going on in the cash management space, and numerous banks are steadily working on plans for up to date portals, solutions, and experiences. I published a new report last week, Top Trends in Corporate Online Banking. The report examines and analyzes the top trends in online cash management, and provides recommendations [...]

Before I get into any detail here, let me confess. I’m a Canadian and a very happy iPhone and iPad user. I’m here to state some facts about why the BlackBerry isn’t going away anytime soon. Sorry Apple fan boys! Last December, I published the report, Corporate Mobile Banking: Revolutionizing Cash Management. The report goes [...]

There’s been a lot of talk in the market about corporate mobile banking but not that much action. I recently published a new report on the topic and it has been extremely well received. The report examines and analyzes the state of corporate mobile banking. It delves into why mobile banking is important in the [...]

Wholesale lockbox (WLBX) has been a staple treasury management product for five decades or so. It amazes me that after all these years, the market for WLBX continues to grow and innovate. A far cry from retail lockbox, WLBX enjoys significant revenue growth opportunities. By Celent estimates, over 12,000 eligible U.S. companies with over $25 [...]

Conference season has concluded. After several weeks on the road, I finally hit the last stop on the fall conference circuit – The AFP Annual Conference. This popular business banking conference took place last week in lovely San Antonio, Texas. The trend of increased attendance figures continues (see my BAI Retail Delivery post here), as [...]

Consumer mobile banking has already created quite a stir. Hefty marketing campaigns aimed at the consumer market are being used to promote mobile banking services. While the potential of the consumer mobile banking market is certainly attractive, little emphasis is being placed on the corporate or small business markets. This is quite surprising given the [...]

I just returned from the Digital Insight National Client Conference in San Antonio. I was invited to speak on social media for banking, and I also took some time to attend several of the sessions. One of the sessions I attended was a panel discussion with a group of four commercial businesses. These middle market [...]

I spent most of last week at the AFP conference in San Francisco. Although attendance seemed to be rather dismal (I am still waiting to hear some actual figures), it was a great conference for me with very productive meetings. Most of my meetings were centered around online corporate banking and payments – hot topics [...]

It’s been about a year now since I wrote the report, Web 2.0: A Quantum Leap for Wholesale Banking. I predicted it would take a good 12-18 months before we would begin to see cutting-edge corporate online banking sites complete with Web 2.0 elements. Alas, we are starting to see some interesting solutions peek out [...]