FinTech for dummies

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.