The FINTECH Book: The Financial Technology Handbook for Investors, Entrepreneurs and VisionariesA front-line industry insider's look at the financial technology explosion The FINTECH Book is your primary guide to the financial technology revolution, and the disruption, innovation and opportunity therein. Written by prominent thought leaders in the global fintech investment space, this book aggregates diverse industry expertise into a single informative volume to provide entrepreneurs, bankers and investors with the answers they need to capitalize on this lucrative market. Key industry developments are explained in detail, and critical insights from cutting-edge practitioners offer first-hand information and lessons learned. The financial technology sector is booming, and entrepreneurs, bankers, consultants, investors and asset managers are scrambling for more information: Who are the key players? What's driving the explosive growth? What are the risks? This book collates insights, knowledge and guidance from industry experts to provide the answers to these questions and more.
The fintech market captured over US$14 billion in 2014, a three-fold increase from the previous year. New startups are popping up at an increasing pace, and large banks and insurance companies are being pushed toward increasing digital operations in order to survive. The financial technology sector is booming and The FINTECH Book is the first crowd-sourced book on the subject globally, making it an invaluable source of information for anybody working in or interested in this space. |
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... 138 Angel Investing – Access to “Smart Money” to Fund the Best FinTech Companies 141 Crowdfunding and Marketplace ... as New Asset Classes to Access Funding 144 The Digital Investment Space – Spanning from Social Trading to Digital ...
My Robo Advisor was an iPod – Applying the Lessons from Other Sectors to FinTech Disruption 152 Crowdsourced Alpha 155 To Crowdsource a Hedge Fund 160 Providing Capital and Beyond 162 7. Enterprise Innovation Can Banks Innovate?
Other platforms such as Funding Circle and RateSetter followed. To date, the industry has lent a cumulative figure of £2.6 billion and the market is growing. Lending in the first quarter of 2015 came in at £459 million, an increase of ...
... using heart biometrics or face recognition) I will be able to borrow money P2P via Ratesetter, make an international payment using Transferwise, top up my Starbucks e-wallet, or make a deposit into my Alibaba money market fund.
WorldRemit and Remitly are attracting serious attention, having respectively raised $100 million and $12.5 million in funding. This is not surprising, as they are entering a market worth more than $600 billion a year.
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Contents
3 FinTech Hubs | |
4 Emerging Markets and Social Impact | |
5 FinTech Solutions | |
7 Enterprise Innovation | |
8 More Success Stories | |
9 Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains | |
10 The Future of FinTech | |
List of Contributors | |
Index | |
EULA | |
6 Capital and Investment | |
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| Title | The FINTECH Book: The Financial Technology Handbook for Investors, Entrepreneurs and Visionaries |
| Authors | Susanne Chishti, Janos Barberis |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | John Wiley & Sons, 2016 |
| ISBN | 1119218934, 9781119218937 |
| Length | 312 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Accounting / General Business & Economics / Finance / General Business & Economics / General Business & Economics / Industries / Computers & Information Technology Business & Economics / Industries / Financial Services |
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