Fintech and the Remaking of Financial Institutions
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Fintech and the Remaking of Financial Institutions, Second Edition explores the transformative potential of new entrants and innovations on business models. In its survey and analysis of Fintech, this 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 second edition expands and updates topics covered in the first edition, with particular emphasis on current and expected impact of AI; maturation of crypto and consequent regulatory issues; international developments; and the continued integration of technology advances in large financial institutions.
This book shows how Fintech has evolved and will drive the future of financial services. It sheds new light on disruption, innovation, and opportunity by placing the financial technology revolution in larger contexts. Presents snap shots of many Fintechs, identifying their successes, new opportunities,challenges, and solutionsProvides global coverage of Fintech ventures and regulatory guidelinesAnalyses Fintech’s social aspects and its potential for spreading to new areas in bankingNew to the Second Edition: all chapters have been brought up to date, with newand additional material on big data, crypto currencies, regulatory actions, andcurrent and potential developments in Artificial Intelligence.
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- Elsevier S & T
- 9780443366529
- 9780443366512
- ePub
- 2
- John Hill
- English
- 2026-02-21
- 10
- 2
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- Title of Book
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Acknowledgment
- Chapter one. Introduction
- Abstract
- Introduction
- M-Pesa: providing some of the world’s poorest with financial access
- Venmo: effortlessly split dinner tabs, buy concert tickets with friends
- Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies
- Blockchain: a protocol with wide application potential
- Square: mobile payments
- Stripe: e-commerce payments
- SoFi, Kiva: peer-to-peer lenders disintermediate the banks
- Wise: matching users for remittances
- Chapter 2: disruption and disintermediation in financial products and services: why now?
- Chapter 3: Money: a medium of exchange, unit of account, and store of wealth
- Chapter 4: Financial institutions
- Chapter 5: Bubbles, panics, crashes, and crises
- Chapter 6: Bank lending
- Chapter 7: Time value of money: interest, bonds, money market funds
- Chapter 8: Equities
- Chapter 9: Foreign exchange
- Chapter 10: Futures, forwards, and swaps
- Chapter 11: Commodities
- Chapter 12: Options
- Chapter 13: Startup financing
- Chapter 14: Fintech in a global setting
- Chapter 15: Fintech and government regulation: if it quacks like a bank…
- Chapter 16: Social issues: energy consumption, women and minority employment, unemployment, and income distribution
- Chapter 17: They are not dead yet: how big financial institutions will work with Fintech startups to define the market structure of the future
- Chapter two. Disruption and disintermediation in financial products and services: why now?
- Abstract
- Gen Zers and Millennials
- Gen Z and Millennials are using money differently
- Technology
- Quantum computing
- Graphical processing units
- The cloud
- Artificial intelligence
- Fintech application of artificial intelligence
- Startup lifestyle
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter three. Money: a medium of exchange, unit of account, and store of wealth
- Abstract
- How is money measured?
- Trends in noncash payments
- Financial system plumbing: how credit cards work
- Financial system plumbing: the automated clearinghouse
- How the automated clearinghouse network and automated clearinghouse payments system works
- Fintech applications
- Digital or “crypto” currencies
- How Bitcoin works
- Silk road
- Mt. Gox
- Bitcoin in China
- Bitcoin in Venezuela
- Bank of England
- Initial coin offering
- Blockchain: a form of distributed ledger technology
- Bank for International Settlements: digital ledger technology
- R3
- Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation
- Digital Asset Holdings
- Chicago Mercantile Exchange
- Ripple
- Payments
- Adyen
- Apple Pay
- Square
- Stripe
- Venmo
- Zelle
- Zoop
- Paytm and Alipay
- References
- Chapter four. Financial institutions
- Abstract
- Information asymmetries, moral hazard, and adverse selection
- Commercial banks
- Investment banks
- Central banks
- Insurance companies, finance companies, hedge funds, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds
- Nonbank financial intermediation or shadow banking: other financial intermediaries
- Historical innovation in big financial institutions
- Fintech applications
- World’s best digital bank
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter five. Bubbles, panics, crashes, and crises
- Abstract
- Selected notable events
- Tulipmania
- South Seas Bubble
- Mississippi Company
- Bank Panic of 1907
- The Great Depression
- Regulatory responses to the Great Depression
- Stock market crash of 1987
- Tech bubble: the dotcom crash in 2000
- The Global Financial Crisis
- Regulatory responses to the Global Financial Crisis
- Common features: run-up phase and crisis phase
- Fintech issues relevant to systemic financial risk
- Appendix: timeline of Global Financial Crisis Events 2007–10
- References
- Chapter six. Bank lending
- Abstract
- Secured versus unsecured loans
- LIBOR and Secured Overnight Financing Rate
- Real estate loans
- Payday lending
- Credit scores: Fair Isaac Company
- Fintech in lending
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter seven. Time value of money: interest, bonds, and money market funds
- Abstract
- Future value and present value
- Internal rate of return
- Credit instruments
- Fisher’s law
- Term structure and yield curve
- Types of debt instruments: money market instruments
- Types of money market funds
- Types of debt instruments: US Treasury securities
- Types of debt instruments: agency securities
- Types of debt instruments: corporate bonds
- Types of debt instruments: municipal securities
- Types of debt instruments: sovereign debt
- Fixed-income trading platforms
- Fintech applications
- Chapter eight. Equities
- Abstract
- Risk, return, and diversification
- Capital asset pricing model
- Efficient market hypothesis
- Random walk
- Equity indexes
- Types of orders
- Equity trading venues
- Regulation
- Fintech in equities
- Roboadvisors
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter nine. Foreign exchange
- Abstract
- Exchange rate determination in the long run
- Exchange rate determination in the short run
- Effects of relative interest rates on exchange rate determination
- Currency futures, options, and swaps
- Fintech applications
- Antimoney laundering and other concerns
- References
- Chapter ten. Futures, forwards, and swaps
- Abstract
- Futures mechanics
- Single stock futures
- Equity swaps
- Total return swap
- Inflation swap
- Stock index futures
- Interest rate swaps
- Interest rate futures
- Hedging example: locking in an interest rate
- Credit default swaps
- Hedging example: protecting a bond payment stream with credit default swaps
- Fintech applications
- References
- Chapter eleven. Commodities
- Abstract
- Evolution of commodity trading
- Central counterparty
- Trading conventions and terminology
- Participants in futures markets
- Hedging example: farmers and corn
- Hedging example: airlines and jet fuel
- Commodities as an asset class
- Commodities exchange-traded fund
- Fintech in commodities markets
- Artificial intelligence in commodity markets
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter twelve. Options
- Abstract
- Risks in trading options
- Basic option strategies
- Additional option strategies
- Option pricing
- Theoretical pricing models
- Fintech applications in options
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter thirteen. Startup financing
- Abstract
- Credit cards and cash on hand
- Friends and family
- Loans
- Crowdfunding
- Equity crowdfunding
- AngelList
- Angels
- Accelerators
- Venture capital
- Initial public offering: is going public the founder’s holy grail?
- Initial coin offerings
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter Fourteen. Fintech in a global setting
- Abstract
- Fintech in the United Kingdom
- Fintech in the European Union
- Fintech in Germany
- Fintech in Canada
- Fintech in China
- Fintech in Singapore
- Fintech in India
- Fintech in Africa
- Fintech in Brazil
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter Fifteen. Fintech and government regulation: if it quacks like a bank
- Abstract
- Financial regulation background
- Significant rules governing US financial regulation
- Financial regulators
- Federal Reserve System
- Office of the controller of the currency
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
- Office of Financial Asset Control and Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
- Several start-ups have been found to be in violation of regulations
- Lending Robot
- PayPal Credit
- SoFi
- Dwolla
- Sand Hill Exchange
- Zenefits
- WrkRiot
- FTX Exchange
- Binance
- US policies to support Fintech start-ups
- UK policies to support Fintech start-ups
- EU support for Fintech
- Regtech: Fintech technologies designed to help with the financial regulatory burden
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter sixteen. Social issues: energy consumption, race, and gender issues in hiring and promotion, unemployment, and income distribution
- Abstract
- Energy consumption
- Race and gender issues in hiring and promotion
- High tech, low inclusion: diversity in the high-tech workforce and sector 2014–22
- Lack of diversity in venture capitalists
- Is it a pipeline problem? a bias problem? both?
- Unemployment and income distribution effects
- Income distribution effects
- Who reaps the gains of technological advancement?
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter seventeen. They are not dead yet: how big financial institutions will work with Fintech startups to define the market structure of the future
- Abstract
- Incubators and accelerators
- Big financial institutions investing in and partnering with startups
- Card startup support programs
- Distributed ledger projects
- Internal bank units
- Goldman Sachs: “we are a technology company”
- Altering internal banking culture to reflect Millennial sensibilities
- For banks, disruption has its risks but also opportunities
- References
- Further reading
- Index