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Millennials forcing finance industry to adapt or die
Tech-savvy millennials are “rewriting the rules of the financial marketplace,” with the banking industry at “the highest risk of disruption by millennials,” Susan Axelrod, executive vice president of Regulatory Operations at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, said Tuesday.
Speaking at the Insured Retirement Institute’s government legal and regulatory conference, Axelrod cited the most recent Millennial Disruption Index — a survey of 10,000 millennials — which found that 73% would be more excited about a new offering of financial services from non-traditional financial institutions like Google, Amazon, Apple, PayPal or Square than from their own commercial bank.
Millennials forcing finance industry to adapt or die according to millennial disruption index
The index also found that 71% would rather go to the dentist than listen to what banks are saying, she added.
The industry, she warned, has “work to do in attracting them [millennials] to the financial services industry as employees if we want to avoid the looming succession cliff,” Axelrod said.
The number of financial professionals advising clients in 2014 was around 285,000, down nearly 2% from the year before, she noted.
Since 2008, “the professional headcount has dropped by 39,000 as older financial professionals retire and as too few young people enter the field to replace them — something we are hoping to help address by making it easier for people to enter the industry.”
While FINRA has been zeroing in on preventing senior investor fraud, Axelrod said that there are also “challenges facing the industry on the opposite side of the generational spectrum: Millennials.”
“By 2025, that will jump to 75% of the workforce. This generation — born between 1982 and 2004 — are no longer the leaders of tomorrow. They are, increasingly, the leaders of today.”
“This new approach would give individuals seeking to enter the securities industry the opportunity to demonstrate a fundamental knowledge of regulatory requirements prior to joining a firm, potentially providing firms a larger pool of qualified candidates,” she said.
“If given the choice, one in four millennials would quit his or her current job to join a new organization or to do something different,” Axelrod said in citing the study.
“By the end of 2020, two of every three respondents hope to have moved on from their current job. Meanwhile, only 16% said they saw themselves remaining with their current employer for the next 10 years.” Full Story
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