FINANCE TOMERROW: Intelligence, Disruption & Responsibility - Couverture souple

MBOW, ASSANE

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798185687017

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

The Definitive Analytical Essay on the Triple Transformation of Global Finance

Finance Tomorrow is a rigorous, unsparing examination of a financial system undergoing the most consequential simultaneous transformation in its modern history. Three forces are converging at once — artificial intelligence, the digital payments revolution, and the ESG imperative — reshaping every institution, every profession, every market. This book provides the analytical framework to understand that convergence, without promotional optimism and without nihilism.

The Great Divide

1.4 billion adults remain unbanked despite a decade of Fintech promises. $3.8 trillion in financing has gone to fossil fuel companies from the same banks that have announced net-zero commitments. The average ESG score correlation between agencies on the same company is 0.54 — compared with 0.99 for credit ratings. 70% of US equity trading volume is now algorithmic. These are not rhetorical figures. Each receives a documented, honest answer across fifteen chapters.

Six Parts. Fifteen Chapters. One Thread.

Part One deconstructs the gap between institutional discourse and empirical reality — the geography of financial exclusion, payment infrastructure concentration, ESG data fragility, and the regulatory debt accumulating between innovation and governance.

Part Two examines AI in finance with rigour: the genealogy of financial automation, the generative AI revolution (BloombergGPT, Harvey, JPMorgan's LLM Suite), the hallucination risk, and the governance frameworks — AI Act, DORA, UK SM&CR — designed to address them.

Part Three analyses the payments revolution: Open Banking, CBDCs in 130 countries, the Terra/Luna collapse, Project mBridge's geopolitical implications, and the paradox of digital financial inclusion — from M-Pesa's two decades of lessons to Wave's disruption of Francophone Africa.

Part Four anchors finance in the realities of the ecological transition: the European Taxonomy, SFDR, CSRD, stranded assets, the greenium, ING's Terra approach, ECB climate stress tests, and the DWS greenwashing case examined as institutional anatomy.

Part Five analyses convergences: satellite remote sensing for independent ESG measurement, the voluntary carbon market's coherence crisis, the Cleantech ecosystem, and the hybrid competency profile of the finance professional of tomorrow.

Part Six delivers the four 2025–2040 scenarios — Responsible Augmented Finance, Green Bifurcation, Digital Chaos, and Double Fracture — and closes with a ten-proposition Manifesto grounded in the preceding analysis, addressed directly to practitioners, regulators, and policymakers.

The Central Thesis

The finance of tomorrow will not merely be more automated, faster, and less costly. It will be intrinsically responsible — not by virtue, but by economic, regulatory, and systemic necessity. The question is not whether the transformation will happen. The question is whether it will be steered — or merely endured.

This book is for those who intend to steer it.

Who This Book Is For

• Financial executives (CEOs, CROs, CIOs) navigating simultaneous technological, regulatory, and ecological disruption


• Regulators and central bankers designing frameworks for risks that existing tools were not built to capture


• Asset managers and credit analysts integrating climate and algorithmic risk into decisions that conventional models miss


• Advanced students and researchers in finance, economics, law, and their intersecting disciplines

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798185687017
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 360
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg