In less than a generation, the financial system has gone from one based predominantly on paper cheques and manually balanced ledgers, to one where cheques are digital and ledgers are increasingly balanced through the ether using blockchain technology. Even the very idea of money is being redefined. Perhaps the only thing that is certain is that the financial markets of the future will not resemble the rapidly changing world we live in today.

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