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 12 multistakeholder projects relating to the Platform’s priorities
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Longevity Economy: Financial Resilience for Every Generation
By 2030, 1 in 6 people in the world will be over the age of 60 – approximately 1.4 billion people. By 2050, that number will have increased to 2.1 billion people. In fact, people over the age of 80 will triple their n...
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Future of Capital Markets
The global financial system is undergoing several simultaneous transformations. Digitalization and democratizations are reshaping how capital markets operate. Both investors and corporate issuers have changing needs a...
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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
As private equity assets have increased, so too has the industry's ability to affect change due to the structural advantages of the private equity governance model and a longer holding period. Further, just as large a...
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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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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
China's financial system is undergoing pivotal transformation: The country is removing shareholding limits on foreign ownership of securities, insurance and fund management firms and also scrapping entry barriers and ...
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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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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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Five things you need to know about Biden's executive order on cryptocurrency
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Why putting women in charge of their own financial security pays dividends
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