Financial Services Technology Watch

The financial services industry is being transformed by heightened regulation, technological disruption, and changing demographics. These structural forces have lowered barriers to entry, increasing competition from within and outside the industry, in the form of entrepreneurial fintech start-ups to large, non-financial technology-based companies. The Technological Revolution in Financial Services is an invaluable resource for those eager to understand the evolving financial industry. This edited volume outlines the strategic implications for financial services firms in North America, Europe, and other advanced economies. The most successful banks, insurance companies, and asset managers will partner with financial technology companies to provide a better and more innovative experience services to retail customers and small businesses. Ultimately this technological revolution will benefit customers and lead to a more open and inclusive financial system.

Financial Services Technology, Second Edition explains how banks and financial institutions use technology and explores how fintech companies are revolutionizing the financial services industry. It examines innovation areas and emerging technologies, including digital currencies, blockchain, artificial intelligence, and mobile payments. Key concepts related to cybersecurity, operational risk, and regulation are reviewed in the context of how they impact financial institutions and fintech companies. This book will serve as a valuable reference for industry professionals and as a learning guide for students and newcomers to the industry.

Industry specialists and thought leaders explain how financial services will evolve in the coming decade in response to heightened regulation, technological disruption, and changing demographics.

Over $5 trillion will be spent on technology in the financial services sector in the next three years. While there are many books covering purely technical issues, this is one of the very few that look at the challenge of how to manage financial services technology in an area that under-pins almost every part of our global civilisation.

Electronic Financial Services provides an extensive overview of technology management and information communications technologies (ICT) in the financial services. Chapters cover E-banking, E-insurance, E-stock trading and E-fundraising and use examples of state-of-the-art information systems that are supporting the Internet operations of many financial service institutions. Jargon is not avoided, but is explained thoroughly Includes studies of e-finance systems in use by the major financial services in the world Small case studies are included, plus questions for discussion are given at chapter ends