New disruptive technologies have had two major influences on the world of business. Firstly, they have created significantly more efficient mediums of exchange for goods and services, thus enabling individuals to liberate value embedded within many of the assets they own more efficiently. These...

The financial services industry is just beginning to take full advantage of the benefits of offshore business processing. Some have taken the steps to outsource parts of the lowerend value chain to third party providers within emerging economies. We predict that similar to the manufacturing...

In this paper we take a look at a number of predictions made about the future of the financial services industry during the past few years to find out firstly, how accurate they were and secondly, whether we can learn anything from them that might help us in the future.

This is the sixth article in the Economists' hubris paper series, which aim to critically examine the practical applications of academic thinking. The focus of this article is business ethics, with a specific focus on the financial services industry. The main challenges that one faces in...