  We present an overview of the recent neutral current $B$ decays focusing on
the deviations with respect to the Standard Model predictions that are observed
in $b \to s \ell^+\ell^-$ transitions, and discuss their implications for new
physics scenarios in a model-independent way by means of global statistical
fits. The prospects for future discoveries in the individual channels, in
particular using the theoretically clean observables are also addressed.
