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FinTech—Trends, Players, Challengers, and Bubbles

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A deeper exploration of the term “FinTech”—its origins, definition, and current usage. A look at the current themes and trends in Financial Technology from buzzwords to categories of technology where innovation is happening overall, as well as back-end and front-end specifically. Categories of FinTech challengers as well as identifying the real threat.

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    Duena Blomstrom, “Holy Bank Paralysis Batman”, www.duenablomstrom.com, September 21, 2016, https://duenablomstrom.com/?s=Holy+Bank+Paralysis+Batman.

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    Burnmark, “Challenger Banking”, www.Burnmark.com, October 2016, http://burnmark.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Burnmark%20Report%20Oct2016.pdf.

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    Jim Marous, “The Challenger Bank Battlefield”, www.digitalbankingreport.com, March 2018, https://www.digitalbankingreport.com/dbr/dbr247/.

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    Chris Skinner, “Forget GAFA, the Real Threat Is FATBAG”, www.thefinanser.com, September 2016, http://thefinanser.com/2016/09/forget-gafa-real-threat-fatbag.html/.

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    Duena Blomstrom, “The First Big Brand Bank: Facebook”, www.duenablomstrom.com, January 17, 2017, https://duenablomstrom.com/2017/01/17/the-first-big-brand-bank-facebook/.

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    Christoffer Hernaes, “What Facebook’s European Payment License Could Mean for Banks”, www.techcrunch.com, January 12, 2017, http://techcrunch.com/2017/01/12/what-facebooks-european-payment-license-could-mean-for-banks/.

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    Lionel Laurent and Leila Abboud, “Counting Down to the Bank of Facebook”, www.bloomberg.com, July 25, 2016, https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2016-07-25/telefonica-banking-venture-is-latest-tech-threat-to-big-lenders.

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    Alice Truong, “Tale of Two Chat Apps”, www.QZ.com, April 22, 2015, https://qz.com/389339/mark-zuckerberg-explains-his-distinct-visions-for-whatsapp-and-messenger/.

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    EY, “The Relevance Challenge”, www.EY.com, September 20, 2015, http://www.ey.com/gl/en/industries/financial-services/banking---capital-markets/ey-global-consumer-banking-survey-2016.

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    Burnmark, “Challenger Banking”, www.Burnmark.com, October 2016, http://burnmark.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Burnmark%20Report%20Oct2016.pdf.

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    KPMG, “The Pulse of Fintech Q2 2017”, www.kpmg.com, September 2017, https://home.kpmg.com/xx/en/home/insights/2017/07/the-pulse-of-fintech-q2-2017.html.

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Blomstrom, D. (2018). FinTech—Trends, Players, Challengers, and Bubbles. In: Emotional Banking. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75653-0_2

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