The combination of higher revenues and lower capital expenditure outlays could be expected to lead to an increase in resources sector profits and, particularly, an increase in the share of these profits that are paid out as dividends to investors.
The recent thrust on two areas - cybersecurity and FinTech - is a case in point. A decade back, few bankers or policymakers talked about this threat. Today these are identified as major risks to the financial system. 9. The allergy to intrusive regulation pre-crisis has been overturned into a  necessity in the post-crisis period across advanced economies (AEs) and EMEs.