Understanding Fintech: Why Interest and Investment Has Exploded
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Investment in fintech has increased by 500% in the last 3 years. Interest and investment has spiked as fintech companies seek to leverage new sources of data to develop disruptive offerings across a broad range of financial service areas (e.g. payments, lending & funding). The scale and scope of investment and activity represents a potential paradigm shift within financial services. Telcos, who have a long history developing financial services (e.g. mobile money), need to understand this changing landscape. This report explores why fintech is happening now and maps where and how it is disrupting established financial services.
Description
Format: PDF file
Pages: 24 pages Charts: 06 Author: Anthony Dornan, Dr Charlie Dawkins, Jonas Strobel Publication Date: October 2016Table of Contents
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
- Disrupting the Financial Services Industry
- Defining fintech
- Why fintech’s time has come
- The state of the ecosystem: investment is accelerating
- Key Capabilities and Service Areas
- Fintech specific capabilities: doing the same, but differently
- Fintech service areas: Diverse and developing
- The Future of Fintech
- Growth ahead
- …but there are uncertainties around the future evolution
- The uncertainties could still play out well for start-ups
- Conclusion and Outlook
Table of Figures
- Figure 1: Google Trends search on ‘fintech’, 2011 – 2016
- Figure 2: Fintech companies are disrupting financial services
- Figure 3: Global Investment in Fintech
- Figure 4: VC-backed Investment in Fintech, by Region
- Figure 5: A framework for understanding fintech
- Figure 6: Fintech start-ups within each service area
Technologies and industry terms referenced include: analytics, banks, big data, blockchain, Customer Engagement, Disruption, Financial Services, fintech, insurance, Investment, mobile money, Payments, Technology, Telematics