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POSITIVE SIMPLICITY IS THE HOLY GRAIL “If you go back a couple of hundred years, people used to shake hands on a deal - they didn’t jump through three lots of legal hoops to make it all happen and there wasn’t an electronic transaction process. With future technology, it may start to happen again.” Ian Pearson, Futurologist NEW LANDSCAPE Financial service brands will be expected to provide a positive user experience that is simple and minimal – stripped of the complexities that currently make some financial transactions and arrangements daunting and complex - yet reliable and secure. Near-zero effort, perfectly balanced with protections inherent in the technology and implicit in the brand that sits behind it. 24 PR E S E N T A N D P O T E N TIA L F UTURE S IN F IN A N CIA L SE RVICES