Cryptocurrency has emerged as a new form of digital currency based on blockchain technology, but it is still in its infancy. There is a need for effective regulation surrounding cryptocurrency to have a quicker maturity and wide accessibility to everyone which could result in more efficiency in...

Financial Technology (Fintech) has revolutionized the financial world as one of the fastest-growing segments in both the technology and financial sectors. With the usage of underlying principles of Blockchain technology, Fintech is bringing the financial community together and making financial...

Chapter 1: Introduction: Global Perspectives in FinTech: Law, Finance, Technology -- Chapter 2: FinTech Regulation - A Key to Financial Stability -- Chapter 3: Privacy, Data Protection, and Public Interest Considerations for FinTech -- Chapter 4: Financial Crimes in the Age of the Digital...

The banking and financial landscape has been inundated with technology over the last decade, with FinTech, InsurTech and RegTech being just some of the new applications within finance. In the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), FinTech is yet to ­find its feet despite several digital transformation...

1. Digitalization and Disruption in the Financial Sector -- 2. Fintech Emergence & Global Evolution -- 3. Fintech as Disruptors & Empowering Financial Industry -- 4. Emergence of Shariah-Tech and its Landscape -- 5. Application of Blockchain in Islamic Finance Landscape -- 6. Crypto Currency &...

1. Introduction: FinTech and Islamic Finance in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC); Nafis Alam and Syed Nazim Ali -- 2. A Critical Analysis of Bitcoin from an Islamic Legal Perspective; Farrukh Habib -- 3. Combining Islamic Equity Portfolios and Digital Currencies: Evidence from Portfolio...