For starters, the financial market is just too large — it’s worth more than a trillion dollars. And this year alone, banking and security institutions will have spent $485 billion on IT. We’re just at the beginning of innovation, and there’s immense potential for growth. The banks are creaking under the weight of old legacy systems. They just can’t evolve fast enough alone; they need to collaborate with and buy into fintech companies in order to successfully compete in the new digital landscapes.

http://venturebeat.com/2014/10/04/are-we-in-a-fintech-bubble/?n_play=5432b194e4b0b1a70270f913