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2025 financial services industry key trends

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The financial services industry is constantly evolving, and we anticipate significant changes throughout 2025.

By engaging with leaders and luminaries from the financial services industry and consulting our Eversheds Sutherland lawyers, we will ensure you stay at the forefront of the industry’s most pressing issues. Throughout 2025, this guide will be regularly updated with conversations exploring the risks and opportunities from ten key themes we predict will transform the financial services sector.

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Private Credit

We anticipate that Private Credit will increasingly become mainstream, with a growing variety of credit types entering the investable universe.

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Emerging Technology

Technology is changing the face of Financial Services. Artificial Intelligence will continue to develop, and with global political shifts, we expect significant opportunities in digital assets.

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National Security

Financial Services will likely face increased scrutiny due to sanctions, financial crime, anti-money laundering and trade issues, creating a number of opportunities, but also risks.

Private Equity

After a period of high interest rates, we’re witnessing a significant resurgence in private equity activity, as price formation has become much more straightforward.

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Operational Resilience

Prudential and conduct concerns, along with new legislation like the Digital Operational Resilience Act, means that this area will be a key concern throughout 2025.

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Digitalization

We will continue to see ongoing partnerships, joint ventures, and new distribution models for financial services through big tech and consumer brands.

Regulatory Framework

Regulatory fragmentation is the biggest challenge facing the Financial Services industry in 2025 as global complexity increases.

Real Assets

In the realm of real assets, infrastructure will take the lead, especially digital infrastructure, data centers, and various logistics facilities.

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Strategic M&A

Strategic M&A will be driven by asset management, wealth, and insurance sectors, where the need for scale and product diversification will boost consolidation.

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ESG and Sustainability

With many global political shifts, we expect various challenges to arise as the deregulation agenda takes hold.

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