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The world has entered a new phase of demographic development: people are living and working longer than ever before, with four to five generations working side by side. By 2050, more than...
Building a more efficient, resilient and equitable international financial system that protects customers, enabling saving and investment for growth while supporting the creation of jobs and enterprises.
Financial and monetary systems represent the cornerstone of economic activity. Over the past decade, important steps have been taken to strengthen system resilience. At the same time, a rapid transformation of the system is defining new economic poles, driving power away from public institutions to non-state actors, and accelerating technological disruption, with significant implications for existing and future value chains and employment. Demographic shifts and political polarization are also significantly influencing the system.
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The world has entered a new phase of demographic development: people are living and working longer than ever before, with four to five generations working side by side. By 2050, more than...
2020 will be a pivotal year for the Chinese financial system: China is removing shareholding limits on foreign ownership of securities, insurance and fund management firms one year earlie...
In collaboration with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and with support from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the World Economic Forum has established the Financial Ser...
In recent years, financial intermediaries and service providers have looked to Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) as a potential way to reduce inefficiencies, increase speed and transp...
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is developing an ‘International Strategy for Cybersecurity and the Global Financial System (2021-2024)’ in partnership with the World Econom...
In an effort to better understanding the implications of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the Forum prioritized a review of the financial system through its initiative, Balancing Financi...
The Future of Sustainable Data Alliance is working together with the World Economic Forum to facilitate sustainable investing by improving the availability, quality and delivery of data u...
In its entirety, the initiative aims to bring the Mobility and Financial Services communities of the World Economic Forum together to explore cross-industry challenges and opportunities i...
The trend towards increasing longevity continues to accelerate. Globally, the 65+ population is growing faster than all other age groups. Based on current demographic trends, it is no lon...
Illicit proceeds from criminal activity are estimated to account for 2-5% of global GDP (around $2 trillion USD), yet less than 1% is ever seized or frozen by law enforcement agencies – t...
This project aims to foster full access to, and use of, affordable financial services for the underserved through digital means. It will accomplish this through regional activities focusi...
Trillions of dollars in investment will be required to transition the global economy to net-zero emissions and avert a climate catastrophe. This represents a massive opportunity for capit...
In collaboration with the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance at University of Cambridge and the World Bank Group, the Forum has launched a survey to understand the impact of COVID-1...
As technology develops at an accelerated pace, cognitive abilities and tasks that were once thought to be reserved for humans are increasingly being automated. There is a window of opport...
Established by the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, the Task Force on Digital Financing of the SDGs is mandated to identify how digitalization will reshape finance and to identify,...
As established and emerging technologies continue to reshape financial services at a rapid pace, inherently new potential systemic risks are emerging. In response, the Forum’s Future of F...
The World Economic Forum’s Global COVID-19 FinTech Market Rapid Assessment Study has gathered empirical data from 1,385 FinTech firms that are currently operating in 169 jurisdictions glo...
The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a rapid transformation of the global financial system: Businesses, small and large, needed almost-instant liquidity, individuals embraced digital and c...
Emerging technologies such as AI, 5G, DLT, and quantum are increasingly being used by financial services firms and are forming clusters that are driving innovation throughout the sector. ...
Cyber risk is pervasive, systemic and global in scope. In the financial services industry, it is increasingly difficult to mitigate this risk, since the modularization of financial servic...
While the industry is about to undergo a major transformation, this process will also affect society more broadly: Individuals will be able to invest their money in a more sophisticated a...
Recommendations for Policy-Makers Based on Industry Practitioner Perspectives
This report presents the findings of a global survey on AI in Financial Services jointly conducted by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) at the University of Cambridge Ju...
The Forum’s Global Future Council (GFC) on Financial and Monetary Systems takes stock on how the global financial system has evolved since the previous GFC published its visionary documen...
As previously explored by the Future of AI in Financial Services research at the World Economic Forum, artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing the physics of financial services....
The World Economic Forum aims to harness the power of entrepreneurship in the global public interest to improve the state of the world. This report summarizes insights generated by a dive...
This report explores an emerging set of technologies known as "privacy enhancing techniques" (PETs), and their ability to unlock new value in the financial services industry by facilitati...
The Appropriate Use of Customer Data in Financial Services is the result of multiple senior leadership discussions and 50+ expert interviews with executives from incumbent financial insti...
Artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing the physics of financial services. It is weakening the bonds that have held together the component parts of incumbent financial instituti...
The Global Future Council on Financial and Monetary Systems published this report singling out three key aspects of the risks and challenges associated with the two seemingly opposed forc...
The framework described in this white paper provides a toolkit to identify cyber-risk management improvements in the innovative and fast-changing Financial Services environment through pu...
Financial inclusion is at a turning point. Due to advances in technology, the unprecedented advent of transactional and behavioral big data and greater multistakeholder collaboration, the...
For years Fintech has been the hottest topic of discussion in financial services, with incumbents, regulators, and consumers all asking the same question: “Will small technology-enabled ‘...
In an effort to understand better the implications of the Fourth Industrial Revolution – a technology-led transformation that is fundamentally altering the way people work, live and relat...
Disruptive innovation in financial services: A blueprint for digital identity – a report from the World Economic Forum
The transformation of the financial services industry is top-of-mind for everyone in the field and blockchain might be the hottest topic in the rapidly changing world of Fintech. But how ...
La pandemia de COVID-19 podría suponer un punto de inflexión para los servicios financieros digitales. Los hogares de bajo ingreso y las pequeñas empresas pueden beneficiarse enormemente ...