Financial Services at a Structural Turning Point: From Intermediation Giants to Programmable Finance Ecosystems Financial services are in a state of quiet reconstruction. Unlike past disruptions driven by credit cycles, the current shift is structural, reshaping how value is created and how risk is distributed. Despite record net income of roughly $1.2 trillion in 2024, […]
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FinTech’s Second Act – Integration, Not Disruption For much of the past decade, fintech was cast as an insurgent force. Startups with names like Plaid, Revolut, and Stripe were “born digital” challengers to banks, promising to upend incumbents with faster, cheaper, and more customer centric services. Venture capital poured into neobanks and payments innovators; traditional
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Financial Services Confront the Trust Deficit In 2024, the global financial services sector registered one of its most significant improvements in public trust since the 2008 financial crisis. According to the Edelman Trust Barometer, 62 % of respondents now say they trust financial services companies to “do the right thing”—enough to narrowly push the sector
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Financial Services at an Inflection Point: How the Industry Rewrites Its Future The global financial services sector — long the bedrock of global economic activity — is now unmistakably at an inflection point. The combination of rapid technological innovation, shifting customer expectations, regulatory evolution, and economic pressures has moved the industry from gradual adaptation to
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