Exploring Global FinTech Advancement and Applications

Exploring Global FinTech Advancement and Applications
Author: Taherdoost, Hamed
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2024-02-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

In the world of FinTech, scholars face an overwhelming dilemma; it is challenging to access comprehensive and up-to-date information across various regions with regards to timeliness. The transformative power of FinTech, driven by innovations such as blockchain, AI analytics, and mobile payment systems, has reshaped financial transactions, influenced economic growth, and spurred competition among traditional financial institutions. However, the lack of a comprehensive, scholarly resource hinders the ability of academics, policymakers, and industry professionals to navigate and comprehend these intricate developments. The need for a centralized repository of knowledge has become increasingly urgent, hindering the collective understanding of the complex dynamics of FinTech on a global scale. Exploring Global FinTech Advancement and Applications stands as a groundbreaking solution to the academic community's pressing need for a comprehensive understanding of this global financial landscape. Through meticulous assessments of countries across each global region, each chapter delves into market size, FinTech adoption rates, services offered, key players, investments, infrastructure, government policies, economic impacts, security concerns, academic research synthesis, and future trends. By consolidating this wealth of information, the book becomes an indispensable reference guide for scholars, researchers, policymakers, investors, and industry professionals seeking to navigate the intricate dynamics of FinTech on a global scale.

The Routledge Handbook of Financial Geography

The Routledge Handbook of Financial Geography
Author: Janelle Knox-Hayes
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 648
Release: 2020-12-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351119044

This handbook is a comprehensive and up to date work of reference that offers a survey of the state of financial geography. With Brexit, a global recession triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as new financial technology threatening and promising to revolutionize finance, the map of the financial world is in a state of transformation, with major implications for development. With these developments in the background, this handbook builds on this unprecedented momentum and responds to these epochal challenges, offering a comprehensive guide to financial geography. Financial geography is concerned with the study of money and finance in space and time, and their impacts on economy, society and nature. The book consists of 29 chapters organized in six sections: theoretical perspectives on financial geography, financial assets and markets, investors, intermediation, regulation and governance, and finance, development and the environment. Each chapter provides a balanced overview of current knowledge, identifying issues and discussing relevant debates. Written in an analytical and engaging style by authors based on six continents from a wide range of disciplines, the work also offers reflections on where the research agenda is likely to advance in the future. The book’s key audience will primarily be students and researchers in geography, urban studies, global studies and planning, more or less familiar with financial geography, who seek access to a state-of-the art survey of this area. It will also be useful for students and researchers in other disciplines, such as finance and economics, history, sociology, anthropology, politics, business studies, environmental studies and other social sciences, who seek convenient access to financial geography as a new and relatively unfamiliar area. Finally, it will be a valuable resource for practitioners in the public and private sector, including business consultants and policy-makers, who look for alternative approaches to understanding money and finance.

Powering the Digital Economy: Opportunities and Risks of Artificial Intelligence in Finance

Powering the Digital Economy: Opportunities and Risks of Artificial Intelligence in Finance
Author: El Bachir Boukherouaa
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2021-10-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1589063953

This paper discusses the impact of the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in the financial sector. It highlights the benefits these technologies bring in terms of financial deepening and efficiency, while raising concerns about its potential in widening the digital divide between advanced and developing economies. The paper advances the discussion on the impact of this technology by distilling and categorizing the unique risks that it could pose to the integrity and stability of the financial system, policy challenges, and potential regulatory approaches. The evolving nature of this technology and its application in finance means that the full extent of its strengths and weaknesses is yet to be fully understood. Given the risk of unexpected pitfalls, countries will need to strengthen prudential oversight.

Fintech and the Remaking of Financial Institutions

Fintech and the Remaking of Financial Institutions
Author: John Hill
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2018-05-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0128134984

FinTech and the Remaking of Financial Institutions explores the transformative potential of new entrants and innovations on business models. In its survey and analysis of FinTech, the book addresses current and future states of money and banking. It provides broad contexts for understanding financial services, products, technology, regulations and social considerations. The book shows how FinTech has evolved and will drive the future of financial services, while other FinTech books concentrate on particular solutions and adopt perspectives of individual users, companies and investors. It sheds new light on disruption, innovation and opportunity by placing the financial technology revolution in larger contexts. - Presents case studies that depict the problems, solutions and opportunities associated with FinTech - Provides global coverage of FinTech ventures and regulatory guidelines - Analyzes FinTech's social aspects and its potential for spreading to new areas in banking - Sheds new light on disruption, innovation and opportunity by placing the financial technology revolution in larger contexts

Exploring Central Bank Digital Currencies: Concepts, Frameworks, Models, and Challenges

Exploring Central Bank Digital Currencies: Concepts, Frameworks, Models, and Challenges
Author: Kaur, Guneet
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2024-03-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

In the ever-evolving landscape of global finance, the rise of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) has introduced a myriad of challenges that demand immediate scholarly attention. The accelerating pace of digital transformation, coupled with the intricate dynamics of these novel currencies, poses significant hurdles in their widespread adoption. From privacy concerns to the technological complexities involved, the academic community finds itself at the forefront of deciphering the multifaceted challenges inherent in the CBDC landscape. Addressing this imperative need for comprehensive analysis is the groundbreaking publication, Exploring Central Bank Digital Currencies: Concepts, Frameworks, Models, and Challenges. Within the pages of this compelling work, scholars will encounter a meticulous exploration of the intricate evolution of money, navigating from traditional barter systems to the digital era. The catalytic role of Bitcoin in reshaping the financial landscape serves as a cornerstone, laying the foundation for a profound understanding of the cryptocurrency fundamentals that underpin CBDCs. This book delves into the conceptual frameworks and technological models shaping CBDCs, aiming to illuminate the complex challenges faced by central banks, governments, and financial institutions in their pursuit of digital currency integration.

FinTech Development for Financial Inclusiveness

FinTech Development for Financial Inclusiveness
Author: Anshari, Muhammad
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2021-11-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 179988449X

Financial technology (FinTech) and its related products are considered a major disruptive innovation in financial services, substantially elevating financial solutions and new business models. Resulting from the fusion of finance and smart mobile technology, this innovative technology requires additional investigation into its adoption, challenges, opportunities, and future directions so that we may understand and develop the technology to its full potential. FinTech Development for Financial Inclusiveness moves beyond the theoretical areas of FinTech to comprehensively explore the recent FinTech initiative scenarios with respect to processes, strategies, challenges, lessons learned, and outcomes within economic development as well as trade and investment. Covering a range of topics such as decentralized finance and global electronic commerce, it is ideal for industry professionals, business owners, consultants, practitioners, instructors, researchers, academicians, and students.

Harnessing Technology for Knowledge Transfer in Accountancy, Auditing, and Finance

Harnessing Technology for Knowledge Transfer in Accountancy, Auditing, and Finance
Author: Kwok, Samuel
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2024-02-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

The fusion of technology and knowledge transfer has become a pivotal force in the ever-evolving landscape of accountancy, auditing, and finance. Harnessing Technology for Knowledge Transfer in Accountancy, Auditing, and Finance delves deep into technology's revolutionary potential, dissecting advancements like artificial intelligence, blockchain, data analytics, machine learning, and cloud computing. Through examination and analysis, this book unveils the immense applicability of these technologies in facilitating the transfer of knowledge within the intricate web of financial industries. One of the book's unique strengths is its comprehensive approach to technology adoption. Readers will unearth innovative methodologies, best practices, and novel strategies for optimizing knowledge transfer processes through technological integration to enhance organizational performance and efficiency, equipping professionals with the tools and insights to thrive in the modern financial landscape. This book is ideal for professionals, academics, and researchers. It arms them with indispensable tools, insights, and strategies to harness the full potential of technology in knowledge transfer.

The Green Transition in Motorsport

The Green Transition in Motorsport
Author: Hans Erik Næss
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2024-10-28
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1040147801

This book is a critical exploration of motorsport’s contribution to ‘the green transition’, understood as a societal shift towards a fossil-free future, a circular economy, and greater social inclusiveness. The book takes a critical look at the historical impact of motorsport and the current business and sporting models that determine its sustainability, as well as the innovation that might contribute solutions to wider social and environmental problems. Drawing on perspectives from sociology, media and sport business, the book unpacks the complexity of stakeholder interests in motorsport that might constrain positive change. Presenting cases and data from Formula One, Formula E, Extreme E, the World Rally Championship, NASCAR and the World Endurance Championship, the book considers the technological and organizational change required to address the triple bottom line of financial, environmental and social sustainability, and looks at how audiences, markets, teams, governing bodies, corporations, and state actors combine to shape the social and economic environments within which motorsport takes place. Representing a unique case study of the impact of elite sport on wider society, this book is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in motorsport, sport business, sustainable business, or environment, society and culture.

Handbook of Blockchain, Digital Finance, and Inclusion, Volume 1

Handbook of Blockchain, Digital Finance, and Inclusion, Volume 1
Author: David Lee Kuo Chuen
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2017-08-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0128104422

Handbook of Blockchain, Digital Finance, and Inclusion, Volume 1: Cryptocurrency, FinTech, InsurTech, and Regulation explores recent advances in digital banking and cryptocurrency, emphasizing mobile technology and evolving uses of cryptocurrencies as financial assets. Contributors go beyond summaries of standard models to describe new banking business models that will be sustainable and will likely dictate the future of finance. The volume not only emphasizes the financial opportunities made possible by digital banking, such as financial inclusion and impact investing, but it also looks at engineering theories and developments that encourage innovation. Its ability to illuminate present potential and future possibilities make it a unique contribution to the literature. - Explores recent advances in digital banking and cryptocurrency, emphasizing mobile technology and evolving uses of cryptocurrencies as financial assets - Explains the practical consequences of both technologies and economics to readers who want to learn about subjects related to their specialties - Encompasses alternative finance, financial inclusion, impact investing, decentralized consensus ledger and applied cryptography - Provides the only advanced methodical summary of these subjects available today

FinTech in Financial Inclusion: Machine Learning Applications in Assessing Credit Risk

FinTech in Financial Inclusion: Machine Learning Applications in Assessing Credit Risk
Author: Majid Bazarbash
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2019-05-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1498314422

Recent advances in digital technology and big data have allowed FinTech (financial technology) lending to emerge as a potentially promising solution to reduce the cost of credit and increase financial inclusion. However, machine learning (ML) methods that lie at the heart of FinTech credit have remained largely a black box for the nontechnical audience. This paper contributes to the literature by discussing potential strengths and weaknesses of ML-based credit assessment through (1) presenting core ideas and the most common techniques in ML for the nontechnical audience; and (2) discussing the fundamental challenges in credit risk analysis. FinTech credit has the potential to enhance financial inclusion and outperform traditional credit scoring by (1) leveraging nontraditional data sources to improve the assessment of the borrower’s track record; (2) appraising collateral value; (3) forecasting income prospects; and (4) predicting changes in general conditions. However, because of the central role of data in ML-based analysis, data relevance should be ensured, especially in situations when a deep structural change occurs, when borrowers could counterfeit certain indicators, and when agency problems arising from information asymmetry could not be resolved. To avoid digital financial exclusion and redlining, variables that trigger discrimination should not be used to assess credit rating.