Over the five years through 2024-25, UK banks' revenue is expected to climb at a compound annual rate of 1.7% to £128.6 billion, including an anticipated hike of 2% in 2024-25. After the financial crisis in 2007-08, low interest rates limited banks' interest in loans, hitting income. At the same time, a stricter regulatory environment, including increased capital requirements introduced under the Basel III banking reforms and ring-fencing regulations, constricted lending activity. To protect their profitability, banks such as Lloyds have shut the doors of many branches and made substantial job cuts. Following the COVID-19 outbreak, the Bank of England adopted aggressive tightening of monetary policy, hiking interest rates to rein in spiralling inflation. The higher base rate environment lifted borrowing costs, driving interest income for banks, who reported skyrocketing profits in 2023-24. Although profit grew markedly, pressure to pass on higher rates to savers and fierce competition weighed on net interest income at the tail end of the year, the difference between interest paid and interest received. UK banks are set to continue performing well in 2024-25 as the higher interest rate environment maintains healthy interest income, aiding revenue growth. However, net interest income is set to dip marginally due to higher deposit costs and narrow margins on mortgage loans. With further rate cuts priced into markets, savings rates will drop in 2024-25, stemming the drop in net interest income. Over the five years through 2029-30, industry revenue is forecast to swell at a compound annual rate of 3.3% to reach £151.1 billion. Regulatory restrictions, tougher stress tests and stringent lending criteria will also hamper revenue growth. Competition is set to remain fierce – both internally from lenders that deliver their services exclusively via digital channels and externally from alternative finance providers, like peer-to-peer lending platforms. The possibility of legislation like the Edinburgh reforms will drive investment and lending activity in the coming years, if introduced. However, concerns surrounding the repercussions of less stringent capital requirements and the already fragile nature of the UK financial system pose doubt as to whether any significant changes will be made.

Over the five years through 2024-25, revenue is expected to edge upward at a compound annual rate of 1.4%. Demand is affected by disposable income levels, the national savings rate, macroeconomic conditions and demographic trends. The industry has been subject to intense consolidation activity in recent years, with many larger companies acquiring smaller competitors. Several major companies, including Tilney Group and Smith & Williamson, merged in September 2020, creating one of the largest financial adviser companies in the UK, Quilter PLC. Thanks to this consolidation, the industry's market share concentration has ballooned, but the sea of independent advisors has stayed in the game. In 2024-25, revenue is projected to jump by 2.3% to £7.13 billion. Demand for financial advisers has been growing strongly, with more consumers seeking better advice on managing their resources as scars from the income drops of the COVID-19 pandemic and cost-of-living crisis jolted awareness for the need for financial advice. Alongside this, interest rates have jumped up and down, causing consumers and businesses to spring at opportunities to make the most out of turbulent conditions. However, profit is unlikely to recover to pre-COVID-19 levels as intensifying price-based competition and high regulation constrain the average industry profit margin. Inflationary pressures and economic instability that are clouding financial market health slashed demand for financial advisory services, but discretionary spending for advisors follows suit as economic stability approaches. Revenue is forecast to advance at a compound annual rate of 4.1% over the five years through 2029-30 to £8.7 billion. Funds under management will bloom as new businesses take root and downstream markets increasingly realise the importance of carefully managing their resources. The use of technology to provide services will be vital for increasing demand, particularly from younger consumers with data insights at the core of financial advice. However, the emergence of robo-advisers threatens to replace human advisor services unless they can offer better returns for investors. Brexit allows for the review and improvement of industry regulations, offering more confidence and security. Growth could be constrained by regulatory costs and mounting competition as a number of new players enter the industry, with fees continuing to be threatened.

The average growth rate for the ** largest pension markets worldwide was estimated to be **** percent between 2022 and 2023, and the ten-year compound annual growth rate until 2023 was estimated to be 3.8 percent. Retirement savings in pension funds grew during the last decade and the amount of worldwide pension assets reached new heights in 2021, which can be partially explained by a higher share of working-age population investing in pension plans. Which is the largest pension market? The largest pension market worldwide is the United States, where the total pension fund assets was almost ** times larger than in the United Kingdom, which is the second largest pension market worldwide. Despite some fluctuations during the last decade, the U.S. pension assets grew overall, and as with the worldwide pension assets, reached the highest value in 2020. Pension assets to GDP Despite its relatively small population size, the Netherlands was the fourth largest pension market worldwide, after the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada. The pension market in Netherlands was also the largest market worldwide when compared to the size of its own economy, followed by Canada, Australia, and Spain.