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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.
Our Platform provides an impartial and trusted space for stakeholders to connect, identify shared needs and collaborate to navigate challenges faced by the financial services industry.
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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...
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This report summarizes insights generated by a diverse group of influential institutional investors and their advisers in order to explore how the global capital markets can better accele...
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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...
There is a realistic opportunity to reach the financially excluded – estimated to be 2 billion – and the many more that are underserved.
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The report builds upon the findings from Deloitte/World Economic Forum report Disruptive Innovation in Financial Services and looks at the impact of implementing distributed ledger techno...
