Full Description
Throughout history, innovators have disrupted existing financial services norms to change the landscape of the marketplace. Disruptive Fintech briefly traces fractional reserves, the creation of bank currency that traded at a premium to bullion value, central bank regulation, securitization of assets and loans, the current state of digital currency and electronic payments. The author then looks toward the future of fintech and the forces of disruption that will change the landscape of financial life as we know it.
Using over 100 interviews with thought leading CEOs, this book develops a methodology to identify financial services that are ripe for innovation and discusses how innovative thinking can be used as a disruptive weapon to attack incumbents and create effective new fintech models. The book discusses
How to relate historical innovations and disruptions in financial services to the current landscape
How to follow a process to identify the threats facing incumbent processes and businesses, and how innovative thinking can be used as a disruptive weapon to attack incumbents and create effective new fintech models
How many fintech innovations will be constructed by re-arranging or re-purposing existing core processes
In this insightful book, author James Deitch, CPA CMB, argues that some of today's high-flying fintech innovators will flourish, but many may perish as the fire of innovation consumes those fintechs that are slow to monetize their promises.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Alex Henderson
Introduction - Fintech Over the Next Ten Years
Major Financial Services Crises from the Past 500 Years... A Pattern of History Repeating Itself
Big Ideas, Big Impact: Contemporary Disruptive Thinkers and Practitioners
Demographics Driving Disruptive Forces
Current Disruptive Forces at Work in Real Estate Brokerage, Finance and Insurance
Disturbances in the Force: Political and Regulatory Preferences for Status Quo
Winners and Losers in the Current Fintech Revolution
Boot Camp for Disruption: A Disruptor's Guide to Innovation
Disrupt or be Disrupted
Appendix 1 The Mavericks
Appendix 2 The Disruptor's Quick Reference Guide for Data and Research
