Each week, Private Banker International’s journalists analyse data on patent filings and grants that illustrate innovation trends in our sector. These patent signals show where the leading companies are focusing their research and development investment, and why. We uncover key innovation areas in the sector and the themes that drive them.
This new, thematic patents coverage is powered by our underlying Disruptor data which tracks all major deals, patents, company filings, hiring patterns and social media buzz across our sectors.
Go deeper with GlobalData
China filed 44,467 patents in financial services over the last three years, closely followed by the US with 39,679.
Asia Pacific in the top ten authorities for patents as South Korea (9,895), Japan (9,019), Taiwan (2,969) and Australia (2,099) were also in the rankings.
In addition, South Korea came third and Japan came fourth over the last three years.
In fifth position was the European Patent Office with 7,401, followed by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) with 6,823.
Closing out the top ten is Canada with 1,949 and the UK with less than half of that number (878).
