The pace of change, together with the borderless nature of technology, requires an appropriate level of caution to be taken, through financial services firms taking risk-based approaches to strategic and business initiatives.
The role of government intervention  Classical theory maintains that government should not interfere with the interaction between economic agents, because this would lead to a sub-optimal allocation of resources. This approach may apply also to situations of heightened uncertainty, to the extent that sooner or later the economy is expected to get back to normal.