Introduction
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. A historical Perspective on Disruptive Technologies
Rossella Locatelli, Cristiana Schena, and Alessandra Tanda
Chapter 2. A Taxonomy of FinTech Innovation
James Bowden, Timothy King, Dimitrios Koutmos, Tiago Loncan, and Saverio Stentella Lopes
Chapter 3. Cryptocurrency Mining Protocols: A Regulatory and Technological Overview
Timothy King, Dimitrios Koutmos, and Saverio Stentella Lopes
Chapter 4. The development of InsurTech in Europe and the strategic response of incumbents
Ornella Ricci
Chapter 5. FinTech and Banking: An Evolving Relationship
Santiago Carbó-Valverde, Pedro J. Cuadros-Solas and Francisco Rodríguez-Fernández
Chapter 6. FinTech Cultures and Organizational Changes in Financial Services Providers
Timothy King and Daniele Angelo Previati
Chapter 7. Digital Disruption: How the Financial Services Landscape is being Transformed
Walter Gontarek
Chapter 8. FinTech and Regulation: From Start to Boost - A New Framework in the Financial Services Industry. Where is the Market Going? Too Early to Say
Anna Omarini
Chapter 9. Bigger Fish to Fry: FinTech and the Digital Transformation of Financial Services
David McNulty and Alistair Milne
Chapter 10. FinTech: A Perfect Day or Walk on the Wild Side?
Jonathan Williams
Index
About the Author: Timothy King is Director of the Centre for Quantitative Finance at the University of Kent, UK. His research interests include Banking, FinTech, Corporate Governance and Corporate Finance. He has published in journals including the Journal of Corporate Finance, British Journal of Management, Journal of Financial Research, Journal of Financial Stability, Annals of Operations Research, Economics Letters and International Review of Financial Analysis.
Francesco Saverio Stentella Lopes is Senior (type B) Researcher at the University of Rome Tre, Italy. His research focuses on Banking and Innovation, and he has published in renowned academic journals including the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and the Journal of Banking and Finance.
Abhishek Srivastav is Senior Economist at the World Federation of Exchanges. Prior to this, he served as Senior Lecturer in Finance at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His research interests include Empirical Corporate Finance, Climate Change and Financial Intermediation. He has published in various leading journals, such as the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Corporate Finance and Management Science.
Jonathan Williams is Professor of Banking and Finance at Bangor University, UK where he served as Head of Bangor Business School between 2016 and 2020. He is Co-Director of the Institute of European Finance, Chair of the European Association of Teachers of Banking and Finance and Editor of World Banking Abstracts. His main research interests are in Empirical Banking, including themes of Corporate Governance, Competition and Efficiency and FinTech.
