Finance incorporates thousands of years of human innovation: barter systems, banking institutions, concepts of credit and debt, physical currency, and the shared belief in the value of a piece of paper. But finance today is driven by digitalisation and data, with finance professionals needing to incorporate modern methods and expand their practice to a more strategic level

Economic modelling and financial budgeting require forecasting the future, but if recent history has taught us anything, essentially everything has become highly unpredictable. To be accurate and successful, finance practitioners will need to develop a wholly new baseline for economic modelling.