NEWSLETTER of October 3, 2025

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BCG
THE FUTURE IS (ANYTHING BUT) STABLE: GLOBAL PAYMENTS REPORT 2025
After years of steady cash-to-digital migration and growing investor interest, the payments sector is entering a new phase. Payments transformation is picking up speed, and leaders now face a fragmented, high-stakes terrain where sovereignty matters, digital payments technology is rewriting the rules, and the cost of hesitation is rising fast. BCG’s 23rd annual Global Payments Report lays out the forces redefining the industry and the moves leaders must make now. >more

Citi
2025 GLOBAL FAMILY OFFICE REPORT
Our seventh annual Global Family Office Report provides fresh insights into how our sophisticated clients are preserving and growing generational wealth in today’s often unsettled world. Respondents were asked 50+ wide-ranging questions, probing their expectations for markets, how they have positioned their portfolios, the shifting risks they identify, and how they are operating and organizing themselves. They also gave extensive insights into the thinking and behaviors of the families they serve, including their ambitions and concerns, growing global footprints, and priorities for the next generation. >more

MIT Technology Review | EY
REIMAGINING THE FUTURE OF BANKING WITH AGENTIC AI
Agentic AI is coming of age. And with it comes new opportunities in the financial services sector. Banks are increasingly employing agentic AI to optimize processes, navigate complex systems, and sift through vast quantities of unstructured data to make decisions and take actions — with or without human involvement. From responding to customer services requests, to automating loan approvals, adjusting bill payments to align with regular paychecks, or extracting key terms and conditions from financial agreements, agentic AI has the potential to transform the customer experience—and how financial institutions operate too. >more

KPMG
2025 GLOBAL FAMILY OFFICE COMPENSATION BENCHMARK REPORT
The Global Family Office Compensation Benchmark Report developed in collaboration with Agreus Groupopens in a new tab features quantitative and qualitative insights into Family Office composition, and compensation structures, and provides much sought after benchmark data. 585 Professionals from the Family Office community, spanning roles from Personal Assistants to Principals, participated in an online survey conducted by KPMG Private Enterprise and Agreus. In addition, 20 in-depth qualitative interviews were carried out with Chief Executive Officers, Managing Directors, and senior leaders from the Family Office industry across all continents. The Global Family Office Compensation Benchmark report represents the combined findings from both the survey and the interviews. >more

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF FIRM NETWORKS: CEO IDEOLOGY AND GLOBAL TRADE
Elisabeth Kempf, Mancy Luo, and Margarita Tsoutsoura
2025
We examine how the political ideology of corporate leaders shapes cross-border firm networks. Exploiting changes in ideological alignment between U.S. firm CEOs and foreign governments around close foreign elections, we show that U.S. firms are more likely to terminate trade relationships with countries led by governments whose ideology becomes more distant from that of their CEOs. The impact is concentrated among CEOs holding strong political views, and is particularly pronounced for shorter trade relationships, suggesting ideological alignment is more relevant in more flexible and substitutable connections. Our findings highlight the role of ideology in shaping the formation and persistence of international firm networks. >more

EU FINANCIAL SECTOR PRIORITIES FOR 2030
Maria Barata, Thorsten Beck, and Valerio Novembre
2024
This paper discusses financial sector priorities for the European Union in the next five years. We discuss the progress that has been made in several areas, in digital finance, anti-money laundering and micro- and macroprudential regulation, and also areas in which progress has stalled, most prominently in completing the Banking Union and building a Capital Markets Union. We also note several areas in which additional regulatory and supervisory efforts need to be made: artificial intelligence, digital financial literacy and green financing. The agenda for financial sector policymakers in Europe for the next five years is a long one, but making Europe’s financial system more efficient can help speed up and deepen the twin transition and help foster innovation and growth. >more