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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... blockchain technology, and the dominance of millennials. The industry is evolving and the ever-increasing need to prepare for cybersecurity threats remains top of mind, as banks continue evaluating new threats and potential fraud risks ...
... blockchain technology, and bitcoin, see Part 9. 5 P2P Finance Association, “Strong Growth Continues in Peer-toPeer Lending Market”, 30 April 2015, http://p2pfa.info/strong-growth-continues-in-peer-topeer-lending-market. 6For more ...
... the European Parliament also wants to see easier access to banking data to enable innovation while at the same time preventing any data misuse and security breaches. Wearables, Foreign Exchange (FX), Bitcoin, and Blockchain.
... Blockchain. Trends. Having reviewed regulation trends, we now want to highlight key applications of FinTech. In the foreign exchange sector, services like WeSwap2 are entrants into the currency exchange market, but they are doing things ...
... blockchain (the technology on which bitcoin is based) is a distributed data store that holds a public ledger of transactions for crypto-currencies, such as bitcoin itself. A dedicated chapter in the book covers crypto-currencies and ...