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Europe requires an estimated additional annual investment of approximately €1.4 trillion, equivalent to around 7% of GDP, to finance its growth, digital, energy, defence, and transition goals.
The report presents findings from 307 family offices across more than 30 markets worldwide, with an average net worth of USD 2.7 billion.
Deloitte interviewed 35 decision makers, including COOs, CTOs, and heads of transformation at wealth management firms globally.
If digital currencies continue to gain traction, up to $13 trillion in transaction value could shift to alternative payment methods by 2030, putting an estimated $13 billion in payment fees at risk.
The Financial Conduct Authority spent £14m on its InvestSmart campaign to promote positive investing principles.
In 2024, the Swiss financial sector directly generated a gross value added of CHF 73.2 Mrd. and supported 245’800 jobs (FTE).
Over 90 percent of surveyed central banks are engaged in some form of CBDC work, with more than half involved in experiments or pilot projects.
Over 1 billion people currently live in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States, where payment ecosystem disruptions present severe risks to economic stability.
The note categorizes single-ledger arrangements into 4 operating models: integration, distribution, separation, and permissionless.
In a 2023 BIS survey, almost all surveyed central banks reported considering offline CBDC payments to be vital or advantageous.
In 2024, Swiss real gross domestic product (GDP) growth slowed to 1,0 %, while the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) forecasts a slight recovery to 1,3 % for 2025.
Only 24% of surveyed banks report being highly successful in achieving their cost reduction goals.
Unified Payments Interface (UPI) processes more than 18 billion transactions per month in India.
As of late 2023, 94 percent of 86 surveyed central banks were actively exploring CBDCs, moving from research to experiments.
Total fundraising in Europe reached its second-highest year ever at €147bn during 2025, representing a 16% increase from the previous year.
The Boston Consulting Group estimates that asset tokenization could reach $16 trillion or 10 percent of global GDP by 2030.
Household insurance is the most widely owned policy type at 62%, followed by motor insurance at 57% and occupational pensions at 21%.
In Nigeria, 98.5 percent of eNaira wallets remained unused one year after launch.
Over 100 central banks around the globe are exploring central bank digital currencies to modernize payment systems.
Biotech attracted the highest amount of capital among all sectors at CHF 405.3 million, representing a 44% increase in invested capital.
Total fundraising in Europe during 2023 reached €132.9bn, representing a 3% decline from the previous five-year average, with 744 funds raising capital.
The framework analyzes cross-border retail CBDC payments across 5 core elements: access, communication, currency conversion, compliance, and settlement.
Thirty of the 33 central banks in sub-Saharan Africa responded to the regional survey on digital currencies and payments.
A speech by the Chair or Vice Chair draws about 65 distinct Reuters articles, whereas a speech by another Board governor draws about 10.
reached 483 companies by the close of 2023, reflecting a yearly growth of eleven percent, while Liechtenstein hosted 22 FinTech companies.
By 2020, general-equilibrium price changes caused by rising U.S. earnings inequality alone raised the average wealth of the top 0.1% by 25%.
A new record of 397 financing rounds was set for Swiss start-ups in 2023.
Total crypto asset market capitalization peaked at around $3 trillion in November 2021 before falling below $1 trillion.
According to a 2022 BIS survey, 93 percent of central banks are actively exploring CBDCs and 58 percent report being likely to or possibly issuing a retail CBDC in the short or medium term.
Central banks are exploring retail and wholesale CBDCs to complement traditional cross-border payment rails and lower transfer costs.
