New financial technologies (FinTech) have erupted around the world. Consequently, there has been a considerable increase in academic literature on FinTech over the last five years. Research tends to be scantily connected with no coherent research agenda. Significant research gaps and important...

New financial technologies (FinTech) have erupted around the world. Consequently, there has been a considerable increase in academic literature on FinTech over the last five years. Research tends to be scantily connected with no coherent research agenda. Signi - cant research gaps and important...

This paper derived from a lecture give at the Sibos 2012 conference in Osaka, Japan (October 2012). Barcodes are the ubiquitous business standards used for the visual capture of information at retail point of sale and in business and healthcare supply chains. While the business and economic...

The European sovereign debt crisis has triggered debate between self-styled ‘fiscal federalists' – urging loans and transfers amongst Euro area member states to support adjustment of unsustainable deficits – and ‘fiscal hawks' – proposing stronger and more rigorously enforced central...