The Future of Global Financial Services (Blackwell Global Dimensions of Business Series)

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.

• 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.