The Financial Services Future: Transforming an industry

The proposed programme consists in a series of articles tailor-made for a senior finance executive audience and relevant across the financial service industry. These articles explores the links between technological disruption in the financial services area including its impact on the regulatory environment, and the financial services response. We are also looking at how regulatory changes have forced financial services firms to adapt or even create new operational models that incorporate new technologies to meet regulatory requirements and the further impact this has on the firms’ value chains.

Topic #1 : Technological Transformation

The marriage of high tech and high finance

The lines between financial services and high technology are becoming increasingly blurred. Four major technological 

changes will disrupt financial services in the years ahead. Fear of disruption?

- Biometrics

- Blockchain

- Cognitive computing

- Open banking

Topic #2 : Regulatory Transformation

Regulatory reform in uncertain times – No rest for the weary 

Despite “reform fatigue” and squeezed profit margins, financial services firms are dealing with a continued flood of regulation. Some are turning to new technologies for compliance help.

A decade on from the global financial crisis, are policymakers and regulators starting to tire of imposing a seemingly endless drip-feed of new rules on financial services firms?

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