Mate of mine who's big on conspiracy theories , and has been banging on about this for a while, reckons this is the start of the ' new world order/ illuminati' taking control of the worlds banks to have one global economy. Or summat like that!
Maybe he's right. 
Far from the conspiratorial it would seem that technology has already allowed such institutions to have far reaching control of most matters financial and, as a result, the consequences of any decisions made can be disseminated over vast swathes of the world on an almost immediate basis.
With the UN continuing to extend its influence throughout the world by way of diplomatic channels and through the auspices of such groups as NGO’s (Non Governmental Organisations), QUANGO’s (Quasi-autonomous Non-governmental Organisations) and such like, it seems that these notions of globalisation are perhaps not as far-fetched as one would like to think.
With the amount of information already gathered and stored by the likes of Google and other concerns working on the internet, ostensibly for the purposes of doing business and to provide information and entertainment, it’s easy to see how a grab can be made for greater international influence by those either controlling or directing the gathering of such information, or those others privy to it.
Technology – especially in the guise of the internet (and those controlling it) - will be the ultimate arbiter to decide whether or not those who wish to remain independent and free from overt or prejudicial governmental control, either national or global, have any right to do so; I would suggest that it will also provide the means by which freedom of thought and association - presently only experienced by those now too old to live through the full ramifications of this brave new future world - will be reduced to but a dream.