Finance Trend Forecasting

We help brands stay ahead in the finance sector through data-driven trend intelligence, powerful insight and strategic foresight. We help businesses navigate a rapidly evolving financial landscape including shifting market trends, digital innovation, and changing consumer expectations

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Finance Market Insight

We offer bespoke presentations, foresight reports and thought leadership, as well as a suite of strategic foresight services with a focus on the sector, delivered by our in-house experts

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Latest sector report:The Great Wealth Transfer

In partnership with the Modern Affluence Summit, this report looks at what the Great Wealth Transfer really means in terms of modern affluent behaviours and the insights driving them.

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    Industry leading data-driven insight into new consumer mindsets, emerging trends and cross sector analysis, globally.

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    • Behaviours

    • Expert and Opinions

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  • Strategic Foresight Services

    New market category identification, far-future planning visualised research reports, bespoke analysis identifying opportunities within your business.

    • Bespoke Reports

    • Thought-leadership

    • Presentations

    • Research Decks

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Finance Strategic Foresight

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    Category and Markets Research

    Our tailored, data-rich reports solve business challenges, provoke thinking, fill knowledge gaps and uncover new market opportunities

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    Thought-Leadership

    Commission a report to position your business as an authority, connecting your expertise with market intelligence for top-tier media and prospects

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    Futures Presentations

    Our multimedia presentations show how future trends, markets and consumer insights apply to your brand, enabling your teams to act confidently

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    Foresight Frameworks™

    Embed strategic foresight in your organisation with a bespoke Foresight Framework™, guiding decisions and harnessing trends to become future-ready

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Latest finance trends and insights

  • Modern Burglary

    Crime is on the rise in the retail sector with the cost of living crisis, surging inflation rates and a hacker mindset

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  • The Future of Commerce

    We partnered with Afterpay to produce a foresight report exploring the future of commerce in Australia and New Zealand

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  • Female-forward Finance

    A report from The Future Laboratory and Allied Irish Banks reveals how women are pioneering a financial system change

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  • Luxury Recrafted

    Young affluents crave more than a transactional relationship; they want to play an active part in the brand universe 

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  • Ethical Banking

    What responsibilities must banks take on in an equitable and ecologically conscious world

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  • Gen Z in Australia

    Australia’s youth are connecting via grassroots activism and new sources of national pride

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  • The Value Contradiction

    The equation between price point, value for money and consumers’ own values and ethics has never been so contradictory

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  • Inflationary Loyalty Market

    As inflation affects spending power, brands are having to innovate and develop new strategies to boost loyalty

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  • Budget Bots

    Consumers are turning to financial apps and services that automatically streamline their spending

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  • Women Futures: Australia

    What is changing – and not changing – for women and girls in Australia?

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