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Matthew GriffinFounder, President and Futurist, 311 Institute
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Tom and Sapna from Accenture invited Matthew to keynote the firm's Capital Markets Summit, held at Level 42 in London's Leadenhall Building. His brief was the Future of Capital Markets: how digital transformation, emerging technologies and the changes rippling through downstream industries, from agriculture, manufacturing and retail to aerospace, energy, healthcare and transportation, will change how incumbents invest and alter the shape and direction of the markets.
Matthew covered the impact of blockchain on the trust economy and market disintermediation, and the emergence and benefits of quantum computing and DNA computing. He also showed how AI and robotic process automation are helping companies as diverse as Aiydia, Bridgewater Associates, with over $160 billion in global investments, and Goldman Sachs undergo a "spectacular" metamorphosis as they race to become the world's first fully autonomous organisations.
"AI and Robotic Process Automation are helping companies as diverse as Aiydia, Bridgewater Associates and Goldman Sachs enter the race to become the world's first fully autonomous organisations."Matthew Griffin, London, January 2017
Later in the day, Accenture's European Head of Cyber Security spoke on the changing cyber security landscape, the growing role of AI, and the rapid expansion of threats organisations face as they rewire their digital fabric. Steve Rubel, Global Head of Collateral Management at Deutsche Bank Securities, closed with his own take on the transformation of the industry and the trends driving it.
The session left capital markets leaders with a clear picture of the forces reshaping not only their own industry but the industries they invest in.
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What this means for your leadership team
Markets follow the industries beneath.
Investors do not only react to finance. Change in farming, manufacturing, retail, aerospace, energy, healthcare and transport alters where capital goes. A leadership team should track those sectors as closely as its own.
Trust and disintermediation need a plan.
Blockchain affects the trust economy and can remove middle layers from a market. Decentralised autonomous organisations point the same way, though governance problems persist. Leaders should test where their own intermediary role is exposed.
Autonomy is now a race.
Aiydia, Bridgewater Associates and Goldman Sachs are using AI and robotic process automation to move toward full autonomy. Autonomous organisations are rated Explore, with wide use around 2035. Job automation is rated Act now, so workforce plans cannot wait.
Three questions for your next leadership meeting
Which of our investments depend on industries about to change?
Where does our firm rely on a middle layer that blockchain could remove?
Which processes could we hand to automation in the next planning cycle?
The trends and technologies behind this session
From the 311 Starburst, the 311 Strategic Intelligence Unit’s map of the technologies and trends shaping the next 50 years.
It shows that capital markets will be reshaped by technology and by the industries investors fund. Firms should plan for automation, new trust models and new computing, rather than treat them as separate topics.
How do autonomous organisations relate to capital markets?
Autonomous organisations are companies run with few or no human staff, using AI agents. Firms named in the session are racing toward that goal. 311 rates the trend Explore, with wide use around 2035.
How does quantum computing relate to this session?
The session presented quantum computing as an emerging force for markets. 311 rates it Watch, with wide use around 2038, so leaders should monitor progress and prepare their data and security questions early.
How can 311 brief our leadership team on this?
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Analysis by the 311 Strategic Intelligence Unit, from Matthew Griffin’s session and 311 data.
If Matthew gave this session today
Whole industries could soon be disrupted in a day.
The Future of Exponential Disruption examines the forces accelerating global disruption and how close we are to disrupting whole industries in a day, the pressure this session showed capital markets and the sectors they invest in are under.
