Futurist Keynote, Ghana: The Future of Banking, Money, and Payments with Standard Chartered

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By Matthew Griffin Keynote Presentations 23rd December 2022

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF

In this keynote speaker and futurist Matthew Griffin discusses how human ingenuity and technology are turning the world of banking, money, and payments on their head, and how tomorrow’s normal might be the one everyone least expects.

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Firstly, thank you to Albert, Ekow, and and Asiedua the Head of Corporate Affairs at Standard Chartered Bank for asking me to be their keynote speaker at their first ever Fintech Festival in Ghana where I spoke alongside his Honour Ken Ofori Atta, Ghana’s Minister of Finance, and to an audience dominated by fintech entrepreneurs from across Africa and representatives from the Ghanian government and other local organisations. During my keynote aptly titled the Future of Banking, Money, and Payments, I took them all on a literal mental roller coaster ride to show them the obvious and non-obvious future of the financial services industry.

Naturally, I started high level showing them the forces that are accelerating the rate of global disruption and then I went straight into opening their eyes to new business models and ideas by discussing the impact of crypto mining cars and cities, and by demonstrating how a simple Web 3.0 Smart Fridge could disrupt global banking – a section which later I was told was one of the highlights of the session.

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Then, having chatted through industry’s current broken business model, the rise of Bank 4.0, and fintechs, I showed them how gaming companies such as Epic could leverage the DeFi (Decentralised Finance) trend to disrupt not just the industry’s incumbents but also Big Tech’s ambitions for the sector. I then moved onto the future of money and showed the audience why asking the right questions is crucial, how fiat currencies could be disrupted, and why when we discuss this particular topic talking about the future of money is the wrong conversation to have when really we should be talking about the future of value instead.

Finally, we swung round to payments and here again I showed them why they need to expand their thinking and explore things that make the uncomfortable such as being able to pay with moves, play, or time, as we’re seeing companies such as Ikea and Nike already embrace.

And, not quite done I then had a lengthy round table discussion with Standard Chartered’s CEO and leadership team where we dived into all manner of topics, from the future of their business model and their physical branches, all the way through to their investment methodologies and approach to ESG.

Matthew Griffin / About Author

Matthew Griffin, described as a "Walking encyclopaedia of the future" by NASA and a futurist polymath, is one of the world's most renowned futurists and strategic foresight experts. A serial entrepreneur Matthew is the Founder and Futurist in Chief of the 311 Institute, a global Futures and Deep Futures advisory firm working across the next 50 years, XPotential University, the world's first free futures and foresight university, and the World Futures Forum which works with the United Nations to solve the worlds greatest challenges. 13 times author of the Codex of the Future series, Matthew is an in demand international keynote, acclaimed university lecturer, and host of the hit Fanatical Futurist podcast.

A rare talent in his past Matthew helped build and run several multi-billion dollar business units for Atos, Dell-EMC, and IBM, and his ability to identify, track, and explain the impacts of hundreds of emerging technologies and trends on global business, culture, and society has earned him a powerful reputation and a roster of clients that include royal households, world leaders, G7, G20, and G77+ governments, and many of the world's most respected brands including ABB, Accenture, Adidas, AON, ARM, BCG, Centrica, Citi Group, Coca Cola, Dentons, Deloitte, Disney, EY, KPMG, Lego, Legal & General, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Pepsi Co, Qualcomm, RWE, Samsung, T-Mobile, UBS, VISA, and many others. He was also the only futurist invited to talk at the UN COP28 held in Dubai alongside world leaders.

Regularly featured in the global media including the AP, BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, Discovery, Forbes, Khaleej Times, Telegraph, TIME, ViacomCBS, WIRED, and the WSJ, Matthews mission is to help organisations create a fair and sustainable future whose benefits are shared by everyone irrespective of their ability, background, or circumstances.