Abstract
The decade since the financial crisis has seen an explosion of new entrants into financial services. Agile, technology-focused ‘fintech’ firms have sought to upend the established order of financial services, changing the dominant operating models and competitive dynamics of an industry that, in the 50 years prior, had seen remarkably little change in market structure.
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Arslanian, H., Fischer, F. (2019). The Rise of Fintech. In: The Future of Finance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14533-0_3
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