Experts decoding the financial industry of tomorrow.
The financial industry has always been at the cutting edge of technological change, and the AI boom will be no different. To harness AI’s potential while also addressing major new risks, regulators must take a cooperative international approach.
We don’t yet know how rapidly evolving quantum computing will look, but it’s already clear it will upend financial systems. Policy needs to be agile, flexible and prepared to keep up.
Urs Gasser and Urs Gasser
If we properly understand how collective wisdom improves human decision-making, we can better tap the power of AI to better assess risks like those posed by climate change and calculate responses to the future.
Stablecoins are booming in popularity, but they’re not all built the same. By not relying on potentially opaque issuers, decentralized stablecoins are showing that they have the resiliency, transparency and robust risk management to become the payment layer for the internet.
Despite the talk of “stranded assets” on the books of oil and gas companies, proven reserves of fossil fuels have kept growing. Our latest calculations show they’re enough to burn right through global carbon budgets.
Mainstream financial institutions once viewed cryptocurrencies with suspicion or disdain. Now a growing welcome for digital assets by institutional investors is helping crypto markets mature, driving demand and reducing volatility.
Financial institutions have turned away from climate and sustainable investment goals amid a broader political backlash. For a new way forward, citizens, enabled by digital financial tools, can fund projects with broader payoffs.
Climate finance has so far largely focused on putting money into efforts to cut carbon emissions. The MSCI Sustainability Institute set out to find the businesses needed to respond to the increasingly unavoidable impacts of a hotter world.
Mathias Wikström, founder of the Sweden-based climate fintech startup Doconomy, explores how more knowledge changes behavior and how sustainability can future-proof the banking sector.
In many countries, a lack of basic financial services holds back development and saddles citizens with unnecessary burdens. Why not throw open the borders and let people bank anywhere in the world? The technology already exists today.
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