Thought Leadership
The Next Decade will be Shaped by AI
Introduction
“The Next Decade will be Shaped by AI.”
That statement framed much of the discussions at major global finance forums in 2025 — and it could not have been more accurate.
Forums reaffirmed that the global financial ecosystem is entering a new phase defined by three converging technologies: AI, tokenization, and Quantum Computing.
What became clear across panels, showcases, and executive conversations is that the true frontier of financial innovation will not be built in isolation. It will be realized through collaboration — between infrastructure providers, financial institutions, and regulators — in co-creating AI systems that are scalable, trustworthy, and resilient.
Below, we share key takeaways from 2025 industry dialogues and how they align with our mission to build the world’s most reliable, collaborative financial infrastructure.
What We Observed in 2025
Industry sessions in 2025 highlighted a decisive shift: AI in finance has moved from experimentation to operational integration. Across keynote stages and closed-door forums, several common threads emerged:
- The industry is now focused on modular AI architectures, shared data frameworks, and interoperable governance — a collective move away from siloed models.
- Regulatory discussions emphasized cross-border data corridors, privacy preservation, and open API standards as prerequisites for large-scale adoption.
Nearly every conversation returned to the same challenge: how to implement AI safely, transparently, and collaboratively.
These signals mirror broader market observations:
- The 2025 AI Index shows that while global AI capability continues to expand, deployment scalability and governance remain key bottlenecks.
- In financial services, AI adoption is widespread — particularly in risk, liquidity, and fraud prevention — yet 70–80 % of organizations still report difficulty moving from pilot to production.
The message is clear: the next decade will not be defined by new models alone, but by the ecosystems that operationalize them.
Why AI Co-Creation Is the Future of Financial Infrastructure
If there was one message that resonated throughout 2025’s industry forums, it was that co-creation is essential for AI to succeed in regulated finance.
We heard it in discussions between central banks and technology providers, in case studies of AI governance, and in panels featuring both fintechs and incumbents.
The rationale is simple:
- Domain specialization and trustFinancial institutions hold the institutional knowledge, risk models, and regulatory frameworks that AI must align with. When they co-design logic and validation layers, outcomes are inherently more reliable.
- Shared governance and accountabilityRisk cannot be outsourced. Co-creation allows institutions and partners to share validation responsibilities and oversight, ensuring alignment on ethical and operational standards.
- Configurability over uniformityInstitutions differ in regulation, liquidity management, and compliance priorities. A shared AI core with configurable client-specific modules delivers both efficiency and flexibility.
Co-creation, then, is not a compromise — it’s a structural advantage that enables AI to function in complex, regulated environments.
Emerging Trends and Co-Creation Implications
We observed several converging trends in 2025 that will shape AI’s evolution across the financial sector.
| Trend | Description | Implication |
|---|---|---|
| Modular AI for Risk, Fraud & Compliance | Institutions are prioritizing customizable AI frameworks over fixed, opaque models. | Providers like Montran can deliver core AI engines, while clients co-develop their own plug-ins for risk logic, thresholds, and anomaly detection — ensuring transparency and ownership. |
| Federated Learning & Privacy-Preserving AI | A major theme was collaborative intelligence without data exposure. | Federated learning enables multiple banks to train local models and share encrypted updates. Montran can orchestrate these networks, maintaining privacy while amplifying shared insight. |
| Explainability and Continuous Auditability | Regulators and clients alike demanded traceability, interpretability, and bias control. | Co-created explainability libraries and validation dashboards will become standard, allowing joint oversight between Montran, clients, and regulators. |
| Quantum-Safe & AI-Augmented Resilience | Discussions around quantum-era security revealed both opportunity and urgency. | Roadmaps for quantum-safe cryptography and hybrid AI-quantum analytics must be built collaboratively — ensuring readiness before disruption. |
| Governance as Collaboration | From the AI Ethics Forum to RegTech panels, consensus formed around co-regulated frameworks. | Multi-stakeholder governance — councils of providers, clients, and regulators — will underpin the next phase of AI oversight. |
Co-Creation in Action: Illustrative Models
Recent industry case studies echo our own initiatives at Montran.
| Use Case | Description |
|---|---|
| Liquidity Forecasting Through Shared Models | Treasury teams and infrastructure providers jointly built AI engines that predict liquidity shortfalls in real time. By combining Montran’s modeling architecture with client-defined parameters, both parties gain faster responsiveness and stronger oversight. |
| Custom Fraud Logic on Shared AI Platforms | Institutions demonstrated how configurable fraud modules can coexist within a common framework — allowing them to define thresholds and adapt quickly to regional patterns without rebuilding entire systems. |
| Federated Learning Networks | Collaborative pilots showcased how multiple banks can train models locally and contribute to a shared global risk model without sharing raw data — a true realization of privacy-preserving collaboration. |
| Governance Sandboxes and AI Readiness Labs | Several central banks presented pre-deployment sandboxes where AI models are tested under stress conditions and governance protocols are reviewed collectively — a practice Montran actively supports. |
| Quantum-Safe Co-Development Roadmaps | In light of growing quantum concerns, many discussions emphasized early migration planning. We see this as a natural area for Montran-client collaboration, combining cryptographic expertise with infrastructure scalability. |
Industry Data: The Context Behind the Conversation
To ground these insights, a few figures stood out across the event and recent studies:
- Around 74 % of companies globally still struggle to scale AI initiatives into measurable business value.
- Only ~11 % of financial firms report fully operational AI use in production across core business lines.
- In fraud prevention and risk analytics, AI adoption exceeds 90 %, but interoperability and governance remain key constraints.
- Efficiency gains from AI integration in payments and post-trade operations are averaging 20–25 % in recent case studies.
These data points reinforce a core point: the challenge ahead is not about developing AI, but about deploying it collaboratively and responsibly.
Building the Future, Together
Industry consensus in 2025 made one truth clear: AI in financial infrastructure achieves its potential only through shared innovation.
At Montran, we believe collaboration—not competition—defines the next decade of progress. We remain committed to co-creating intelligent, secure, and transparent systems with our clients and partners.
From liquidity forecasting and fraud analytics to quantum-safe planning, our mission is to turn insight into impact through collective design, governance, and trust.
Progress in finance is collective. AI makes it faster; collaboration makes it real. We look forward to shaping this future—together.
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