Banks, Banking, Insurance, Fund Management
Retail financial services are in for a radical shakeup, which will dwarf anything we have seen so far in online innovation, driven mainly by use of mobile devices.
Tens of thousands of startups are trying to make money from mobile money. Only a handful will make it to global scale.
Huge potential impact on retailing. This is a new gold-rush or dot-com like boom, that is happening a somewhat chaotic way, leaving regulators far behind. Video: recorded early 2011. Article: written November 2012 - accurate forecasts by Futurist Keynote Speaker Patrick Dixon on future of banking and financial services.
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Future of Emerging Markets - Keynote Speaker
Futurist keynote speaker: Vietnam's future will be driven by key trends such as economy, technology, demographics, mobile digital and retail banking. One in four of the population of Vietnam is under 14, median age of only 27, with a literacy rate of 94%. Labour costs in many parts of the country are only half those of China and Thailand. Wage inflation in China’s coastal cities is averaging around 12% a year, which will encourage more factories to relocate. Chinese wage inflation for most experienced managers can be as much as 100% a year. Vietnam will therefore continue to attract major manufacturing investment, and has a great future.
Read more: Future of Vietnam - economy, banking, manufacturing, digital, green tech. Futurist keynote speaker on Emerging Markets such as Vietnam / Asia region