finance

Cashless Cities: Realizing the Benefits of Digital Payments with Visa

October 11, 2017 / Comments Off on Cashless Cities: Realizing the Benefits of Digital Payments with Visa

With 60% of the global population expected to live in cities by 2030, how will going cashless enable a city to drive more value to citizens, businesses, and the government? To answer that question, VISA commissioned ThoughtLab to quantify the potential benefits of moving from physical money to digital payment systems in 100 cities around […]

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Wealth and Asset Management 2022

October 3, 2017 / Comments Off on Wealth and Asset Management 2022

Like many industries, wealth and asset management is going through a radical transformation that will reshape the industry in the years ahead. Chief among the forces of change is the inexorable shift to a digital marketplace, which will almost certainly thrust some firms into new prominence and leave others behind. As the industry faces irreversible change, […]

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Accenture: Adapting Your Business to a Fragmented World

June 28, 2017 / Comments Off on Accenture: Adapting Your Business to a Fragmented World

From Trumponomics in the US and Brexitnomics in the UK to Putinomics in Russia and now Kurzonomics in Austria, the move to economic nationalism and de-globalization is gathering momentum. To understand what these challenges will mean for IT systems and digital business, ThoughtLab conducted a survey of more than 400 CIOs and CTOs around the […]

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Finance Reimagined: Long-Term Value in a Digital Age with State Street

February 16, 2017 / Comments Off on Finance Reimagined: Long-Term Value in a Digital Age with State Street

State Street, a sponsor of our Wealth and Asset Management 2021 study, created its own white paper based on the results of our rigorous research program, which included two surveys, one of 2,000 investors across 10 leading world markets and another of 500 wealth services investment providers with assets under management ranging from $1B to $100B. The […]

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Wealth and Asset Management 2021

September 21, 2016 / Comments Off on Wealth and Asset Management 2021

Technological, economic, and demographic shifts will transform the wealth management industry by 2021. Over the next five years, the impact of these mega-changes on the wealth profession will be profound. These shifts will unlock tremendous global wealth, but also raise investor expectations for new advisory and digital solutions that some investment providers are not yet […]

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