Bloomberg Interview: Why Financial Infrastructure Needs a Digital Makeover
Sir Ron Kalifa explores the opportunities for private capital to transform this key enabler of the global economy.
What’s Driving the Financial Infrastructure Opportunity?
The global financial system is in the midst of a structural transition driven by changing consumer preferences, deglobalization, innovation and regulation. These trends are creating a need for strategic, large-scale capital paired with operating expertise to help financial infrastructure companies prepare for this transformation.
Strategic Partnership with Barclays
Leveraging our global payments and carveout expertise, Brookfield is partnering with Barclays to transform the bank’s payment business.
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Financial Infrastructure in Action: Payment Processing
How exactly do payment platforms work? Sir Ron Kalifa, Brookfield’s Vice Chair and Head of Financial Infrastructure Investing, explains.
“We estimate $4 trillion of capital is needed to support the platforms, software and data services that serve as the critical enablement layer for the global financial economy.”
Endnotes
1. Worldpay, “Global Payments Report," 2025. Time period from 2014 to 2024.
2. IMF. Time period from 2014 to 2024.
3. https://www.tradeweb.com/newsroom/media-center/insights/commentary/electronic-credit-trading-approaching-inflection-point-in-ig/ and https://www.tradeweb.com/newsroom/media-center/insights/blog/what-the-last-decade-of-electronification-tells-us-about-the-future-of-u.s.-credit-markets#:~:text=And%20that%20story%20continues%20to,directly%20in%20their%20trading%20workflow. Time period from 2013 to 2024.
4. https://bpi.com/survey-finds-compliance-is-growing-demand-on-bank-resources/#_ftn3. Time period from 2016 to 2023.
Disclosures
All investing involves risk. The value of an investment will fluctuate over time, and an investor may gain or lose money, or the entire investment. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.
Financial infrastructure companies may be subject to a variety of factors that may adversely affect their business, including interest rate fluctuations, high leverage, regulatory risks, economic slowdown and increased competition.
