Cries for faster, better, and cheaper access to financial services by millions of investors have shaken the markets this year.

In this episode, Jackson Mueller, Sam Tyfield, and Richard Bain lock horns over how well the current FS infrastructure works today for retail investors, what digitalisation is required most, and what it will mean in the medium term.

We conclude that retail demand will lead to upgrading legacy post-trade infrastructures to create trust. Is this a case where market forces may just be strong enough to sort out the technology without a regulatory mandate?