Chapter 1: Banks Today: The Relationship between Financial Services and Technology -- Chapter 2: FinTech: Trends, Players, Challengers, and Bubbles -- Chapter 3: Products vs. Money Moments -- Chapter 4: Let’s Get Real: Anecdotes from FinTech Titans Experiencing Banking Products -- Chapter 5:...

This open access Pivot demonstrates how a variety of technologies act as innovation catalysts within the banking and financial services sector. Traditional banks and financial services are under increasing competition from global IT companies such as Google, Apple, Amazon and PayPal whilst...

Introduction: A framework for inclusive leadership -- The Context - Transformations and Pragmatism -- The New Inclusions -- How Leadership Tasks Become Inclusive -- Seasons of a Leadership Development Journey -- Overall Conclusions and Outlook

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This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 8th International Workshop on Enterprise Applications, Markets and Services in the Finance Industry, FinanceCom 2016, held in Frankfurt, Germany, in December 2016. The 2016 workshop especially focused on “The Analytics Revolution in...

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Sharing information and knowledge, co-innovating with clients, communities, and competitors and adopting cognitive technology, robo advisors, crowdfunding, and blockchain reflect current socio-economic behaviour. Emerging growth regions in Asia, demographic shifts, intergenerational wealth...

This book presents a broad overview of risk management in the banking industry, with a special focus on strategic thinking and decision-making. It reveals the broader context behind decision models and approaches to risk management in the financial industry, linking the regulatory landscape for...