This book explores the future of the financial services industry, giving readers an idea of the kinds of institutions and services that will survive in the early twenty-first century.

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• An informative and provocative exploration of the future of the financial services industry.
  
• Focuses on likely changes in the near future, such as greater use of the Internet for banking transactions and the increasing globalization of financial services.
  
• Points to the probable disappearance of the insurance sector as a separate industry.
  
• Describes changing conditions in key financial centres, especially the US, the UK, Germany, Japan and Switzerland.