Since many years, I enjoy working in the Financial Industry and future trends such as FinTech seemed obvious, until recently reflecting on possible trends for 2017. In my humble opinion FinTech is addressing a customer experience driven demand strongly supported by technical evolution such as mobile, cloud, big data, etc… Has the disintermediation of banks started?

While the rest of the world is changing rapidly, banks are still struggling to survive the regulatory tsunami which has not ended yet. And FinTech became a real hype strongly attracting millennials to become part of it. Hipsters created start-ups to change the banking landscape. Venture Capitalists supported this evolution and heavily invested in the first waves of disruption. Isn't #FinTech disillusioned and will this not lead to a decline in 2017? And will enlightenment come from new kids on the block?