
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 F...
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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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 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...
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...
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...
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 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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
In this publication members of the Global Future Council on Financial and Monetary Systems highlight how the financial system has rapidly adapted to the COVID-19 crisis, provided support ...
This report offers a framework for understanding how AI is combining with other emerging technologies and shaping the financial services industry. The report is the result of more than 20...
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...
This insight report presents an exploration of how three key dynamics underpinning the transformation process will shape the Chinese asset management ecosystem in the years to come: Pensi...
The Forum’s Platform for Shaping the Future of Financial and Monetary Systems has convened several virtual roundtables with stakeholders to discuss the impacts of COVID-19 on the global f...
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...
Navigating Uncharted Waters shows how financial services firms, policymakers and regulators and customers can overcome five risks and plot a course toward more rapid AI adoption.
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...
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...
There is a realistic opportunity to reach the financially excluded – estimated to be 2 billion – and the many more that are underserved.
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...
The report, Disruptive innovation in financial services: A blueprint for digital identity, calls on financial institutions to lead the charge in developing robust digital identity solutio...
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...
Female leadership across global finance has risen in recent years, with research suggesting the positive benefits of such an increase.
A new report from Tenemos in partnership with the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) sheds some light on our progress towards Open Banking and its future