Front Cover -- Fintech and the Remaking of Financial Institutions -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- M-Pesa: Providing Some of the World's Poorest With Financial Access -- Venmo: Effortlessly Split Dinner Tabs, Buy Concert Tickets With Friends -- Bitcoin,...

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...

I introduce the concept of hybrid intermediaries: financial conglomerates that control a multiplicity of entity types active in the "assembly line" process of modern financial intermediation, a system that has become known as shadow banking. The complex bank holding companies of today are the...