Bringing the outside in
The FCAT research team identifies and explores the emerging technology, sociocultural, and startup trends that will matter most to Fidelity over the next five to ten years.

“We wouldn't be FCAT if we didn't keep an eye on far flung, really ambitious technological innovations.”

- Megan Kelley, Head of FCAT Research

What We Research

Future of Financial Services

In the next decade, financial services will blend algorithms, AI, tokenization and human advice in new ways to deliver truly personalized offerings. Digitization will impact stores of value, money, and assets, influencing policymakers to accelerate their efforts to keep up with an industry eager to reinvent itself.

The Next America

Americans’ lives are in perpetual flux. The once familiar passage to adulthood has given way to new and diverging paths to independence; fluid family formations, new sources of income, and multigenerational households complicate career paths and the experience of aging. Sociocultural trends like these demand new financial products and services.

New Business Foundations

New technologies such as AI, gaming platforms, and blockchains reshape how products and services are designed, built, and delivered. The business foundations powered by these and other emerging technologies will likely change how companies are organized and how money is made and invested.

Deep Tech

Deep technologies focus on solving our hardest societal, engineering, and environmental challenges. Though practical applications are often many years away, advances in fields such as synthetic biology, robotics, quantum, and space exploration have the power to spawn entirely new markets, opportunities, and ways of living.

Articles

Meet the Researchers

Anjali Lai

Sociocultural Trends

Customer behavior

Decision-making

David Bracken

New Business Foundations

Online Community

Future of Work

Deanna Laufer

Sociocultural Identity

Sociocultural Trends

Trust + Privacy

John Dalton

Deep Tech

Laureen Ouellet

Emerging Business

Startups

Megan Kelley

Emerging Ideas

Sarah Hoffman

Vanessa Kargenian

Blockchain Adoption

Web3

Public Policy

FCAT Researchers are available for speaking opportunities and interviews.

Opportunities are considered on a case-by-case basis .

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