Parker and the team at Bloomberg invited Matthew to keynote their first ever RiskTech event, held at Bloomberg's new billion dollar London headquarters, the world's greenest office building. The agenda covered the future of investing, Bloomberg's new single data model, robo-lawyers, derivatives and structured products, and using machine learning to manage price and risk.
The building is also one of the most secure in London and, because Bloomberg hosts so many of the world's dignitaries, completely bomb proof. Even so, in a sign of the times to come, Matthew sneaked in one of China's newest policy makers under everyone's noses, a 'he' that was really an 'it', which made an appearance during the keynote.
"We are increasingly reaching the point where we can disrupt global industries within the space of weeks and days, and that has a significant impact on investors and investment strategies."Matthew Griffin, London, January 2020
His session focused on the accelerating pace of global change and disruption. He previewed some of the companies of the future and showed how soon it will be possible to disrupt entire global industries in a matter of days, not years or decades.
He closed on the significant impact this will have on investors and their investment strategies, as the window for disruption shrinks from decades to weeks and days.
