The Future of Banking, Money, and Payments | Standard Chartered, Ghana | Matthew Griffin | Futurist Keynote Speaker – Matthew Griffin

By Matthew Griffin Keynote Presentations 23rd December 2022

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF

In this keynote speaker and futurist Matthew Griffin discusses how human ingenuity and technology are turning the world of banking, money, and payments on their head, and how tomorrow’s normal might be the one everyone least expects.

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Firstly, thank you to Albert, Ekow, and and Asiedua the Head of Corporate Affairs at Standard Chartered Bank for asking me to be their keynote speaker at their first ever Fintech Festival in Ghana where I spoke alongside his Honour Ken Ofori Atta, Ghana’s Minister of Finance, and to an audience dominated by fintech entrepreneurs from across Africa and representatives from the Ghanian government and other local organisations. During my keynote aptly titled the Future of Banking, Money, and Payments, I took them all on a literal mental roller coaster ride to show them the obvious and non-obvious future of the financial services industry.

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Naturally, I started high level showing them the forces that are accelerating the rate of global disruption and then I went straight into opening their eyes to new business models and ideas by discussing the impact of crypto mining cars and cities, and by demonstrating how a simple Web 3.0 Smart Fridge could disrupt global banking – a section which later I was told was one of the highlights of the session.

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Then, having chatted through industry’s current broken business model, the rise of Bank 4.0, and fintechs, I showed them how gaming companies such as Epic could leverage the DeFi (Decentralised Finance) trend to disrupt not just the industry’s incumbents but also Big Tech’s ambitions for the sector. I then moved onto the future of money and showed the audience why asking the right questions is crucial, how fiat currencies could be disrupted, and why when we discuss this particular topic talking about the future of money is the wrong conversation to have when really we should be talking about the future of value instead.

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Finally, we swung round to payments and here again I showed them why they need to expand their thinking and explore things that make the uncomfortable such as being able to pay with moves, play, or time, as we’re seeing companies such as Ikea and Nike already embrace.

And, not quite done I then had a lengthy round table discussion with Standard Chartered’s CEO and leadership team where we dived into all manner of topics, from the future of their business model and their physical branches, all the way through to their investment methodologies and approach to ESG.

Matthew Griffin / About Author

Described by NASA as a "Walking Encyclopaedia of the Future" and one of the world’s most in demand keynote speakers Matthew Griffin, Founder and Futurist in Chief of the 311 Institute, a global Futures and Deep Futures advisory firm, is a multi-award winning Futurist and strategic foresight expert, author, lecturer, mentor, podcast and YouTube host.

With a distinguished career running global business units at Atos, EMC, and IBM today Matthew helps leaders and titans of industry from all over the world explore the impact of the inter sections of technology, culture, and leadership, then helps them create high performance organisations that can continuously disrupt, outpace, and outthink their competition.

15 times author of the hit series the Codex of the Future series Matthew's ability to identify, track, and explain the impacts of hundreds of emerging technologies and trends on global business, culture, and society has earned him a powerful reputation and a roster of clients that include royal households, world leaders across the G7, G20, and G77, and many of the world's most recognised and exceptional organisations including ABB, Accenture, ABN Amro, Adidas, AON, ARM, BCG, Centrica, Citi Group, Coca Cola, Deloitte, Dentons, Disney, Dow, EY, Google, KPMG, Lego, Microsoft, Legal & General, LinkedIn, Nokia, Paramount, PepsiCo, PWC, Qualcomm, RWE, Samsung, T-Mobile, UBS, Visa, WIRED, WPP and hundreds of others.

Matthew is regularly featured in the global media including the AP, BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, Discovery, Forbes, Khaleej Times, Telegraph, TIME, ViacomCBS, WIRED, and the WSJ, and his mission is to help organisations create a fair and sustainable future whose benefits are shared by everyone irrespective of their ability, background, or circumstances.