Fintechs

In the digital era, we witness the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) to solve problems, while improving productivity and efficiency. Yet, inevitably costs are involved with delegating power to algorithmically based systems, some of …

There is a lively debate on chief digital officers (CDOs). Some practitioners stress CDOs’ critical role in recrafting digital strategies and accelerating digital transformation, while others predict their disappearance. Academics have also …

Finanztransaktionen werden zunehmend online abgewickelt, generell scheinen FinTechs das traditionelle Bankgeschäft zu verdrängen. Damit stellt sich vermehrt die Frage, inwiefern der Schutz personenbezogener Daten bei Online-Finanzdienstleistungen …

Scholars and practitioners continue to recognize the crucial role of entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs) in creating a conducive environment for productive entrepreneurship. Although EEs are fundamentally interaction systems of hierarchically …

This chapter will explore the connexions between geopolitics and globalisation. Both terms tend to be laden with linguistically bulimic phraseology, such as ‘global world’. The effects of globalisation on relations between states within the …

The emergence of FinTech has come under the spotlight over the past decade, attracting the interest of policymakers and regulators surrounding the financial services arena, and even of the general population. At the early stages of this …

This chapter gives an overview of how the financial services sector, especially banking, was a driver for ICT development in the last quarter of the twentieth century, and early years of this century. But three complex external phenomena on the …

Fintech and blockchain technology development are explored in the chapter “FinTech and Blockchain: Contemporary Issues New Paradigm and Disruption.” The decentralized nature of blockchain can be beneficial, but with significant drawbacks and …