This book examines the nature of retail financial transaction infrastructures. Contributions assume a long-term outlook in their exploration of the key financial processes and systems that support a global transition to a cashless economy. The volume offers both modern and historic accounts that...

Bedeutung von Innovationen für Finanzdienstleister -- Aktuelle Entwicklungen in der Finanzdienstleistungsbranche -- Maßnahmen für ein ganzheitliches Innovationsmanagement -- Change Management als kritischer Erfolgsfaktor für Innovationen -- Ausblick auf Finanzdienstleistungen der Zukunft.

Grundlagen & Allgemeine Informationen -- E-Payments Evolution -- Zahlungsverkehrsinnovationen im Wandel der Zeit und ihre Vermarktung -- Zahlungsverhalten am Point of Sale in Deutschland — aktuelle Entwicklungen -- Zahlungsverhalten und Bargeldverwendung in Österreich --...

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...

“As Executive-in-Residence, 2018 at Cornell Tech, cryptocurrency is an area in which I’ve had minimal exposure, and needed to become more fluent with a baseline understanding of its technologies and ideology. As a representative of industry professionals with deep expertise in talent...

This open access book tells the story of how Sweden is becoming a virtually cashless society. Its goal is to improve readers’ understanding of what is driving this transition, and of the factors that are fostering and hampering it. In doing so, the book covers the role of central banks,...

This book provides a new way of understanding modern money and markets by stressing their self-fulfilling/self-destructive properties as institutions from evolutionary perspectives. In contrast to an unrealistic view of the neoclassical general equilibrium theory that models the price mechanism...

This book presents detailed case studies of the first commercial internet digital currency systems developed between 1996 and 2004. Transactions completed with the new technology circumvented all US financial regulations, an opening that transnational criminals exploited. Mullan explains how an...