Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is forging a revolution in the financial world that simply cannot be ignored. By allowing peer-to-peer transactions without traditional intermediaries, it is transforming the way financial activities are carried out — eliminating geographical limitations, promoting financial inclusivity, and creating unprecedented opportunities for countless unbanked populations. As DeFi's promise of decentralization, transparency and autonomy disrupts the banking sector's established order, traditional finance must step up to this new call of disruption or risk irrelevance.