I sat down with about a dozen or so (legal, executiuon, KYC and AML) higher level executives of one of the world's largest banks today. It was a fruitful discussion. The following is the document that was given to serve as a guide to the discussion.
It is interesting to notice how many truly competent individuals and companies truly believe that new technologies are what disrupts industries and markets. Trust me, it is not! Broad disruption occurs at the hands of astute operators that manipulate new (and often not so new) technologies to leverage an innovative business model that strikes at the weakness(es) of the extant market leaders