EC Library Guide on fintech: Selected books
Selected books
AI and Chatbots in Fintech: Revolutionizing Digital Experiences and Predictive Analytics by ISBN: 3031555368Publication Date: 2024This book is a comprehensive guide to the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Financial Technology (FinTech) industry. It is comprised of ten chapters, each addressing a specific aspect of AI in FinTech. The reader is introduced to AI in FinTech, including its history and current state and the role of chatbots in FinTech and how they are used to improve customer service. Furthermore, the book explores the business framework of AI-based ChatGPT in FinTech, including the technology behind ChatGPT and how it can be applied to various financial sectors.
Artificial Intelligence Applications in Banking and Financial Services: Anti Money Laundering and Compliance by ISBN: 9789819925704Publication Date: 2023This book discusses all aspects of money laundering, starting from traditional approach to financial crimes to artificial intelligence-enabled solutions. It also discusses the regulators approach to curb financial crimes and how syndication among financial institutions can create a robust ecosystem for monitoring and managing financial crimes. It opens with an introduction to financial crimes for a financial institution, the context of financial crimes, and its various participants. Various types of money laundering, terrorist financing, and dealing with watch list entities are also part of the discussion.
Banking and Financial Markets: New Risks and Challenges from Fintech and Sustainable Finance by ISBN: 9783031325618Publication Date: 2023This book provides the foundational knowledge essential for comprehending the functioning of financial markets and institutions and their current challenges.
Commercial Banking in Transition: A Cross-Country Analysis by ISBN: 9783031452888Publication Date: 2024The book investigates commercial banking, covering the European framework, the Anglo-Saxon systems, and the Asian area in a comparative approach in trying to answer the following questions: Which is the commercial banking business model of the future? What do we expect a bank to be and to do in the new economic and social reality? How might banking supervision over commercial banks as well as market competition change?
The Cryptocurrency Phenomenon: The origins, evolution and economics of digital currencies by ISBN: 9781032404424Publication Date: 2023This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the cryptocurrency phenomenon from a financial/monetary point of view. It offers a unique slant in at least two ways, with the financial perspective as the reference point.
Decentralized Finance: The Impact of Blockchain-Based Financial Innovations on Entrepreneurship by ISBN: 3031495144Publication Date: 2024This book provides a comprehensive overview of the rapidly expanding field of decentralized finance (DF) and discusses how entrepreneurs can leverage it in their business activities. Decentralized finance (DF) is a system for exchanging value without centralized intermediaries. It relies heavily on peer-to-peer lending and borrowing, decentralized exchanges, trustless systems, and blockchain.
Financial Technology and the Law: Combating Financial Crime by ISBN: 9783030880354Publication Date: 2022Blockchains and cryptocurrencies, open banking, virtual assets, and artificial intelligence have become the buzzword of this decade. This book focuses on these 'disruptive' financial technologies that provide alternatives to the traditional financial services typically offered by regulated financial institutions. Financial technologies are characterized by the innovative ways in which they initiate, support or extend traditional financial services or offer alternative financial pathways and products. However, these financial technologies also pose money laundering and terrorist and proliferation financing as well as cyber security risks that require mitigation. This edited volume addresses a range of regulatory and enforcement challenges related to financial technology and financial crime.
Fintech and Sustainability: How Financial Technologies Can Help Address Today's Environmental and Societal Challenges by ISBN: 9783031406461Publication Date: 2023Fintech can improve sustainability, influence policies, and require new regulations. Climate change, water pollution, and non-renewable resources management can all be addressed with fintech innovations. Despite the advantages offered by fintech, opponents warn of potential negative consequences.
Fintech Competition: Law, policy, and market organisation by ISBN: 9781509963348Publication Date: 2023This open access book is the first to systematically explore competition policy in fintech markets. Drawing from the expertise of law scholars, economists, and social and natural scientists from the EU and the US, this edited collection explores the competitive dynamics, market organisation, and competition law application in fintech markets.
The Fintech Disruption: Law, policy, and market organisation by ISBN: 9783031230684Publication Date: 2023This book provides both practice-oriented and academic insights into the disruptive power of fintech for the banking industry. It explores (1) whether and how the banking industry can use newly emerging technologies in the financial sphere to its advantage while managing any associated risks, (2) how these technologies affect traditional banking service formats as well as the pricing of these services, and (3) whether the emergence of fintech in the banking industry calls for a rethinking of existing banking regulations such as the Basel Accords as well as country-specific regulations.
Fintech Regulation and Supervision Challenges Within the Banking Industry: A Comparative Study within the G-20 by ISBN: 3031254279Publication Date: 2023Strengthening financial sector regulatory arrangements has been a major focus of the G-20 since the crisis in 2008, and progress in strengthening financial regulations is often cited as its success. Nonetheless, the overall contribution of the G20 as a political forum for the oversight of international financial regulation is diming as FinTech is blurring the boundaries between intermediaries and markets, as well as between digital service providers moving into the financial space, nonbank financial companies, and banks. Along the same line, financial technology is causing paradigm changes to the traditional financial system, presenting both challenges and opportunities.
Green Finance Instruments, FinTech, and Investment Strategies: Sustainable Portfolio Management in the Post-COVID Era by ISBN: 9783031290305Publication Date: 2023In the COVID 19 post-pandemic era, sustainable financial systems are increasingly getting the attention they deserve, and policymakers are now moving toward investment and financing decisions based on sustainable development. Green finance plays an important role in mobilizing financial resources and hedging against environmental risk to achieve financially sustainable systems.
Innovation, Sustainability, and Technological Megatrends in the Face of Uncertainties: Core developments and solutions by ISBN: 9783031461880Publication Date: 2024This edited book focuses on the multidimensional aspects of the technological megatrends shaping our global economic system's social, economic, and geopolitical order in the face of uncertainties. With continued shocks, economic downturns, socio-political crises, climate change, and waves of pandemics that pose an existential threat, technological forces have significant effects in defining our path. In this book, by focusing on recent innovations and technological megatrends, the authors assess the sustainability of such human developments in the face of uncertainty.
Redecentralisation: Building the Digital Financial Ecosystem by ISBN: 9783031215902Publication Date: 2023The rise of smartphones, social media, cryptocurrencies and digital assets has changed our lives profoundly over the last decade. In tandem, the relationship between governments, citizens and businesses has evolved, creating new sets of challenges and imbalances, but also opportunities. This book focuses on the evolving digitisation of the financial industry and the impact this has on users. Particular attention is given to the emergence of new technologies such as blockchain, smart contracts and AI.
Regulating Financial Innovation: Fintech and the information deficit Fintech and the information deficit by ISBN: 3031329708Publication Date: 2023This book explores the impact of 'Fintech' on the information asymmetry between the financial regulator and the markets. It details the growing regulatory mismatch and how Fintech exacerbates the "pacing problem", where the regulator struggles to keep up with innovation. With information as a point of reference, the book adds a new perspective on the latest phenomenon in financial innovation and presents a novel framework for navigating structural changes in the financial sector.
