FinTech For Dummies

Name: FinTech For Dummies
Brand: Wiley-Scrivener
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Steven O'Hanlon Susanne Chishti Brendan Bradley James Jockle Dawn Patrick(Autor*in)

Wiley-Scrivener (Verlag)

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Erschienen am 11. August 2020

400 Seiten

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Intro
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Introduction
About This Book
Foolish Assumptions
Icons Used in This Book
Beyond the Book
Where to Go from Here
Part 1 Getting to Know FinTech
Chapter 1 Navigating the FinTech Landscape
What Is FinTech, Anyway?
Analyzing FinTech's Dimensions
Understanding What Has Changed in FinTech
Highlighting the Size of Global FinTech
Discovering a Few Important FinTech Terms
Chapter 2 Understanding What's Disrupting the Financial Industry (and Why)
Providing Trust and Value
Trust
Value
Weighing Wall Street against Silicon Valley: Where Disruptors Live
Examining the Role of BigTech
BigTech and payment platforms
BigTech partnership opportunities
How BigTech can help utilize data
Barriers to greater BigTech participation
Understanding Where the Disruptions Are Happening
Banks
Asset managers
Insurance
Regulation and legal work
Payments
Looking for the Opportunities
Partnership opportunities
Exploiting digitalization with AI
Enhancing data portability
Chapter 3 The Role of Regulation in FinTech
Supervising FinTech
Understanding that location matters
Recognizing that more regulations are coming
Leveling the playing field
Examining Vendor Risk Issues
Introducing the Regulators
The United States of America
The United Kingdom and Europe
Investigating Regulatory Changes
Payment Services Directives
The General Data Protection Regulation
Highlighting RegTech Opportunities
Part 2 Learning the Technology
Chapter 4 Defining the Tech Underpinning FinTech
Finding a Fix in FinTech
What's the problem?
Why FinTech now?
Creating API Strategies
Understanding the concept
Looking at API benefits
Developing an API strategy
Including REST and RAML
Trying tips for API success
Reviewing APIs and security vulnerabilities
Understanding Event-Driven Software
Testing and implementation
Language support
Building on Agile: Microservices and More
Waterfall development
Agile design
Microservices
Bundling Efficiencies: Batch Processing
Improving Data Management
Distinguishing the types of data
Validating, enhancing, and cleansing data
Making enterprise data management more efficient
Working with CPUs and GPUs
Comparing CPUs and GPUs
Planning for success
Estimating the potential improvement
Choosing a Programming Language
Python
Julia
R
Chapter 5 Confronting the Compute Conundrum
Determining Compute Requirements
In-memory computing
Virtualization
Making Sense of DApps
Comparing DApps to traditional applications
Understanding blockchain
Knowing where to find DApps
Connecting DApps, Artificial Intelligence, and FinTech
Looking at permissioned blockchain
Understanding Quantum Computing
How quantum computing works
The drawbacks of quantum computing
How quantum computing fits into FinTech
Chapter 6 Calling Up the Cloud
Getting to Know the Cloud
Looking at the cloud's key traits
Checking out the benefits of the cloud environment
Introducing types of cloud services
Choosing between private and public clouds
Cloud bursting
Developing an Optimal Cloud Strategy
Reviewing data security and encryption
Surveying data states
Considering cloud scalability
Understanding cloud-based virtualization
Using self-service provisioning
Monitoring performance
Evaluating potential security risk on the cloud
Understanding Privacy Compliance and Government Requirements
Data protection laws
Data localization laws
Data sovereignty laws
Access to information laws
Seeing How FinTech Helps with Cloud Strategies
Chapter 7 Understanding Blockchain beyond Bitcoin
Understanding the Basics of Blockchain
Mining and consensus
Smart contracts and DApps
Blockchain network types
Discovering How Blockchain Technology Works
Decentralization
Security
Transparency
Looking at Blockchain's Role in FinTech
Chapter 8 Acclimating to the App Mentality
Introducing Types of FinTech Apps
Surveying the FinTech App Landscape
Digital banking
Wealth management
Payments and peer-to-peer money transfer
Lending
Looking at the Nonretail Side of FinTech Apps
RegTech
Capital markets trading
Building a GUI Framework
Introducing the GUI
Getting the GUI right
Establishing the Requirements Needed in the Development of an App
Chapter 9 Breaking Down BI Tools
Taking a Strategic Approach to BI
Exploring BI Tools
Online analytical processing
Querying and reporting
Data mining
Data visualization
Business activity monitoring
Data warehousing
Digital dashboards
Choosing the Right BI Tools for FinTech
General BI applications
Niche BI applications
Chapter 10 Reviewing the Role of Open Source
Defining Open Source
The open source community
Free versus open source
Looking at Open Source Development Processes
Beginning a project
Discussing and documenting
Perusing the Pros of Open Source
Reduced cost
Flexibility
Freedom
Development speed
Considering the Cons of Open Source
An untraditional support model
Time and resources for maintenance
The possibility of uneven documentation
Security risks
Sustainability issues
Licensing issues
Other concerns to consider
Evaluating Open Source Solutions
Developing your own solution
Finding help for the right open source solution
Introducing open innovation
Chapter 11 Grasping Data Management Fundamentals
Looking at FinTech's Role in Helping Companies Manage Their Data
Understanding ETL: Extract, Transform, and Load
Going over the steps
Reviewing ETL software requirements
Managing Market Data
Cleansing and normalizing market data
Segmenting and storing market data
Dealing with Databases
Data warehouses
Data lakes
Maintaining Data Lineage
Breaking Down Big Data
Differentiating between Structured and Unstructured Data
Comparing SQL and NoSQL
SQL databases
NoSQL Databases
Chapter 12 Adapting for Future Technologies
Harnessing the Power of Artificial Intelligence
Defining AI
Breaking down artificial neural networks
Exploring how AI fits into FinTech
Leveraging Machine Learning
Supervised learning
Reinforcement learning
Unsupervised learning
Making the Most of Chat Bots
Checking Out Alternative Data Sources
Companies and devices involved in alternative data
Alternative data in the financial industry
Sourcing, compliance, and regulation
Part 3 Working with FinTech Companies
Chapter 13 Deciding Whether to Build, Buy, or Partner
Transforming Your Company Digitally
Exploring Reasons to Build or Buy
Looking at reasons to build
Checking out reasons to buy
Finding the balance between new and legacy software
Finding a FinTech Partner
Weighing the pros and cons of partnership
Researching and scouting potential FinTech partners
Working with partners on evolving solutions
Describing the Licensing Models
Subscription
Perpetual
Term
Source code transactions
An open source approach
Chapter 14 Managing Integration with Legacy Systems
Understanding and Tackling the Challenges of Legacy Infrastructures
Comparing old and modern systems
Determining whether a legacy system is too old
Estimating the cost of doing nothing
Discovering how FinTech can help
Planning for success
Walking through the Technical Steps of Updating a Legacy System
Noting areas of concern
Making your plan
Assembling the team
Implementing the plan
Avoiding the pitfalls
Simplifying Integration with Microservices Architecture
The benefits of microservices
Migration strategy options
Chapter 15 Preparing Your Team for a Successful Project
Assembling a Transformation Team
Recruiting the right team members
Counting on communication
Shifting the leadership paradigm
Assigning roles
Setting Realistic Expectations and Timelines
Supporting Change Agents
Retaining Good Employees during Change
Why employees leave
Retention strategies that work
Career paths and organizational change
Understanding Data-Driven Decision-Making
Breaking the Silos
Chapter 16 Investing in FinTech Companies
Understanding the Players
Challenging financial institutions
Offering collaborative solutions to financial institutions
Navigating the Investor Landscape
Crowdfunding
Angel investors
Venture capital
Corporate venture capital
Private equity
Conducting Due Diligence
Performing primary research
Doing secondary research
Analyzing data
Evaluating a Company's Growth Strategies
Studying the competition
Listening to customers
Asking about technology
Inspiring innovation
Considering a Company's Culture
Chapter 17 Figuring Out the FinTech Endgame
Bringing the Board Up to Speed on FinTech
Noting the challenges that financial boards face
Embracing digital transformation
Developing digital skills
Figuring out how to participate
Looking into the Future of FinTech
Authentication methods
Voice technology
Artificial intelligence
Identifying Industry-Driven Networks, Accelerators, and Incubators
The FinTech Innovation Lab
Startupbootcamp FinTech
Techstars
FINTECH Circle
Level39
Mulling Over Mergers and Acquisitions
Consolidation
Corporate venturing strategies
Part 4 The Part of Tens
Chapter 18 Ten Symptoms of Ailing Legacy Technology
A Band-Aid Overload
A Lack of Backward Compatibility
Incompatibility with Other Systems
Disparate Data
Spreadsheet Risk
Latency
Increasing Demand for Support and Maintenance
Short-Term Gains and Long-Term Pains
A Shrinking Talent Pool
Lost Market Opportunities
Chapter 19 Ten Questions for Determining Whether to Build or Buy
Is This Functionality Core to Our Business?
Is the Application Unique?
Which Approach Is More Cost-Effective?
Should This Application Be Built?
What Are the Risks of Building versus Buying?
When Does Open Source Make Sense?
When Does Building Make Sense?
How Can We Accelerate a Build?
When Does Buying Make Sense?
How Do We Select a Vendor and a Product?
Chapter 20 Ten Considerations When Using Open Source Technology
Your Business Model
Open Source Community Health
Tech Support
Security
Code Audits
Reliability
Hidden Costs
Updates and Upgrades
Potential Hardware Impact
Legal Considerations
Appendix: Building a FinTech Company from the Ground Up
Index
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