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Stewart: A tech company will become a top 10 global financial institution

Jeff Stewart · Panel Discussion // Data Driven #27 // May 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) · May 29, 2014 · at 12:34

Jeff Stewart, co-founder of Lenddo, predicts that internet network companies will disrupt financial services to become top global financial institutions.

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“I'd be willing to go out on a limb and say that there is a top 10 global financial institution that is not today, ah, is, is thought of as a internet or non-bank type company.”

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The claim, plainly

A future top 10 global financial institution will be a company that is currently categorized as an internet or non-bank entity.

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Assessment

Jeff Stewart's 2014 claim predicted that a future top 10 global financial institution would be a company categorized in May 2014 as an internet or non-bank entity. The speaker specified no deadline or target year for this prediction; the 2019 horizon was assigned as a default pipeline timeline. According to ledger rules, a default horizon is not a speaker-defined deadline and cannot render an open-ended claim false simply because it did not occur within that initial timeframe. As of May 2019, all top 10 global financial institutions by both market capitalization (led by JPMorgan Chase, ICBC, Bank of America, Wells Fargo) and total assets were traditional banking institutions. Internet and fintech entities such as PayPal and Ant Financial remained outside the top 10. Because the prediction remains open-ended for the future, the claim is not yet determinable.

In May 2019, the top 10 global financial institutions by market capitalization were JPMorgan Chase, ICBC, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, China Construction Bank, Agricultural Bank of China, HSBC, Citigroup, Bank of China, and China Merchants Bank—all traditional banks established prior to May 2014.
Non-bank and internet fintech entities like PayPal ($130B market cap) and Ant Financial ($150B private valuation) remained outside the top 10 global financial institutions in 2019.
The 2019 evaluation horizon was a default system horizon rather than a speaker-defined deadline, meaning the open-ended claim remains active.

Checked against

[1] wikipedia.org [2] wikipedia.org [3] banksdaily.com [4] forbes.com [5] pwc.com [6] gfmag.com [7] spglobal.com [8] forbes.com

"Visa" "Mastercard" market cap May 2019 "PwC Global Top 100" 2019 financials market cap "Ant Financial" valuation May 2019 ranking top financial institutions market cap 2019 largest banks in the world market cap 2019 top global financial institutions market cap 2014 2019 largest financial companies market cap May 2019 largest financial companies by market capitalization May 2019

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