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Trends & Signals

By: Ale Vigilante

Explore the latest insights, thought leadership, and research from FCAT®

Blockchain

The Path to Blockchain-Based Financial Markets

Ale Vigilante & Laureen Ouellet

March 16, 2023

Fintech’s Third Wave—the use of tokenization and smart contracts to rebuild the infrastructure, processes, and business models underlying fiat money and traditional assets—is well underway. The transition to this blockchain-based infrastructure for...

Fintech, Emerging Technology

The Future of Finance Might Be Autonomous

Ale Vigilante & Caroline Federal

December 3, 2020

Until recently, the cognitive load of almost all financial decisions has remained with individual users. But now, the ability to source and collect reams of data, combined with rapid progress in artificial intelligence, lays the groundwork for...

Fintech, Emerging Technology

Embedded Finance: Finance-as-a-Service

Ale Vigilante

November 20, 2020

As the as-a-Service business model keeps expanding from infrastructure to applications, financial services capabilities and products are being re-built to benefit from, and participate in, the platform economy.

Fintech, Emerging Technology

Seven Trends Shaping the Future of Fintech

Ale Vigilante

October 1, 2020

In just five years the fintech landscape has shifted from a focus on solving vertical narrow problems, to being driven by broader horizontal trends. We have identified seven of what we believe are the most important trends shaping the future of...