• 06 Dec, 2016 03:00 am

In the coming months, mainstream media headlines will continue to feature political developments that at least appear more momentous than those of previous years. However, taken together, the articles in this edition of Financial IT indicate that the pace of change in that part of the universe where IT intersects with financial services is accelerating. Some of the developments that are discussed will give rise to headlines in the trade press, if not the mainstream media, within weeks.  could well be the year in which the Fourth Industrial Revolution captures imaginations - of the public at large and the historians of the future.