Tsunamis Incoming
Banking Frontiers|January 2025
The year 2024 was a year of tsunamis. The Middle East captured headlines as war and conflict rose to a scale never seen before. The war in Europe goes on and on, showed no signs of abating.
Tsunamis Incoming

Donald Trump is poised to be the next President of USA, and he has promised waves of tsunamis relating to trade, economics, currency, immigration, security and climate change. No one has any doubt that he will originate more tsunamis than any US president before him.

Technologists are as adept as politicians at creating waves. Generative AI was accepted rapidly, and the tech titans are enhancing it at speeds unimaginable.

It's a tsunami that is gaining momentum day by day. Everyone who is in the tech business is now on the AI bandwagon. Never before has so much money gone into advancing a single technology.

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