Shaping the Future of Financial and Monetary Systems
Shaping the Future of Financial and Monetary Systems
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How can the global financial system reinforce its contribution to sustained economic growth and social development during a period of significant industry transformation?
- Our Platform builds a more efficient, resilient, inclusive and equitable financial system that protects customers, enables saving and investment for sustainable growth, while supporting the creation of jobs, enterprises and the broader multistakeholder community.
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Engage in 18 multistakeholder projects relating to the Platform’s priorities
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Future of Capital Markets
This initiative convenes stakeholders from across the capital markets ecosystem--banks, asset managers, exchanges and financial market infrastructure providers, financial technology firms, investors, and financial reg...
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Coalition for Climate Resilient Investment
A first-of-its kind private sector led coalition, the Coalition for Climate Resilient Investment, is comprised of companies from across the investment value chain with US$5 trillion of assets under management, alongsi...
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Biodiversity Finance - Internalize the Externality
Biodiversity loss represents an unprecedented systemic portfolio risk for investors as $44 trillion of economic value generation is moderately or highly dependent on nature and the services it provides. Furthermore, p...
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Creating Sustainable Value in Private Markets
Five years ago, the Forum led a successful project on “Direct Investing by Institutional Investors” to examine the trend in direct investing by asset owners. Since the publication of that report the private equity ind...
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Technology, Innovation and Systemic Risk
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 Financial and Monetary Systems ...
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Global COVID-19 Fintech Impact and Resiliency Study
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-19 on fintech markets, the resp...
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The Future of Real Estate: Driving An Industry Transition
The Future of Real Estate – Pathways for Industry Recovery and Transition. Buildings and cities are vital to societies and economies. They are the vehicles through which people live their lives: they bring people to...
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Redesigning Retirement: Financial Wellness in the 100-Year Life
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 longer improbable that many will ...
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Financing the Future of Mobility
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 in the auto finance space as th...
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FinCyber: Cybersecurity Strategy for the Global Financial System
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 Economic Forum. Most of the initiati...
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Future of Sustainable Data Alliance
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 used to measure corporate ESG p...
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Living, Learning & Earning Longer
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 four in ten individuals in th...
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Financing the Transition to a Net Zero Future
In order to avert a catastrophic climate disaster, global clean energy investments of approximately $4-5 trillion are required annually by 2030 – a more than threefold increase from existing investment levels. Breakth...
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The Future of Financial Services in China and beyond
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 earlier than planned and also scrapp...
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Task Force on Digital Financing of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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, theorize, and propose how bes...
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Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime
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 – the current anti money launderi...
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Alliance on Appropriate Data Use
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 Financial Stability, Innovation and E...
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Promoting Global Financial Inclusion
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 focusing on:Digital inclusion: Incre...
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