The Economics of FinTech Understanding Digital Transformation in Financial Services

by Fabozzi, Frank J.; Imerman, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780262049535
• ISBN10: 0262049538
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780262381918
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2025-04-22
• Publisher: The MIT Press
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Summary

A groundbreaking, comprehensive exploration of how FinTech innovation is reshaping finance.

Technological innovation has shaped the role of finance since the introduction of the ATM in the 1960s, but never more consequentially than by the massive digital revolution in the financial services industry known as FinTech. The Economics of FinTech is a comprehensive introduction to this rapidly evolving and increasingly important domain, and a groundbreaking exploration of how FinTech is reshaping finance. Michael Imerman and Frank Fabozzi distill the dynamic developments of this multidisciplinary field into a cohesive, accessible guide that covers the economic underpinnings of FinTech innovation, framed within the established principles of financial intermediation, management theory, and data science. Coverage includes in-depth analysis of emerging technologies and innovations across various sectors of financial services as well as the entrepreneurial finance of FinTech such as funding, valuation, and startup management. 

• The first book to examine the economic principles of FinTech innovation 
• Comprehensive coverage of financial technologies across various sectors in financial services 
• Ideal for undergraduate and graduate students as well as entrepreneurs, investors, and finance professionals
• Instructor resources include solutions, slides, and case studies

Author Biography

Michael B. Imerman is Assistant Professor of Teaching in the finance area at Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine and a consultant for companies ranging from large financial institutions to startups. A former Wall Street analyst and visiting scholar in the FinTech group at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, he currently serves on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Financial Data Science.

Frank J. Fabozzi is Professor of Practice at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. He has held positions at EDHEC Business School, Princeton, MIT, NYU, and Carnegie Mellon. He is the author of Capital Markets (fifth edition) and Entrepreneurial Finance and Accounting for High-Tech Companies and coauthor of Foundations of Global Financial Markets and Institutions, all published by the MIT Press.