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The paytech book : the payment technology handbook for investors, entrepreneurs and fintech visionaries

Robert Courtneidge (Editor), Markos Zachariadis (Editor), Tony Craddock (Editor), Susanne Chishti (Editor)
"Money makes the world go round -- and how efficiently it is moved between people, organizations and governments determines the health and profitability of the world economy. In the last decade the payments industry has seen massive transformation; new regulations, technologies and consumer needs have brought extraordinary change to the tools, products, channels and use cases in payments. Innovative and disruptive payment technologies have the potential to transform developed markets, promote regional growth and facilitate financial inclusion for people and businesses in emerging economies. TRENDING TOPIC: efficient movement of money underpins the entire global economy. Nearly half of all FinTechs are PayTechs (McKinsey), and industry commentators observe that investors favor PayTechs due to clearly profitable business models and manageable risks. CORE CONTENT: forms part of the FinTech Book series, and complements existing Wiley publications in this space. STRONG EDITOR PLATFORMS and a broad spectrum of contributors: solid promotion through speaking, writing, social media, training and other corporate activity. CORPORATE SUPPORT from FinTech Circle"-- Provided by publisher
Print Book, English, 2020
John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom, 2020
xiv, 242 pages ; 19 x 25 cm
9781119551911, 1119551919
1127067204
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Preface viii About the Editors xi Acknowledgements xiii 1. Payments Explained Payments are Getting Political Again 6 Money: A History of Gods and Codes 11 Payments Explained 14 From Barter to App – How Payments Have Changed 17 Do We Still Need to Pay? 21 How ACH and Real-Time Payments Clearing and Settlement Works 23 Payments as a Service 26 The New Emerging Banks and Their Role in Payments 28 The Payments Race 31 PayTech Regulation Trends 34 An Innovative Local Payments Method in an Ancient Land 37 2. Payment System Infrastructures and Money Transfer Technologies The Convergence of Card Payments and Bank Payments 46 Instant Payments: A New Deal for the Payments Market? 49 PIN on Mobile – A Pivotal Moment for Payments 51 PayTech in the Cloud 54 The Rise of a Super-Correspondent Banking Network 56 Why Distinctions within Mobile Wallets and Tokenization Matter 59 The Future is Already Here; It is Just Not Evenly Distributed 61 PSD2 Open Banking: The Challenges of Third-Party Provider Identity and Regulatory Checking 64 Taking PayTech to the Villages of India 68 3. Payments Regulation and Compliance How Payments Regulation and Compliance Can Create a Better Future 74 Refining the Collective Responsibility for Compliance 78 Can Operational Agility Grow Payments in the New Online Platform Marketplaces? 81 The Hidden Value of Greater Standardization for the EU-Wide FinTech Market 84 Is Europe a Good Example of Open Banking? 86 Taking Back the Power: Regulations in the EU are Changing the Face of Banking 88 Achieving Control Effectiveness and Sustainable Compliance Using Nine Factors 91 Money Laundering Laws, Technology and Keeping Up with Criminals 94 Dynamic Regulation Readiness – Implementing the 5th Anti-Money Laundering Directive 97 eKYC: The Next Mountain for e-Businesses to Climb 100 AML Systems After Madoff: Ponzi-Identification Using “Complexity” 102 4. Blockchain Regulation Around the World Understanding Cryptocurrencies, Blockchain Technology and Regulations 110 Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies and How They Fit Within Current Payments Regulation 114 Blockchain and Beyond 117 Will Central Banks Adopt the New World Economy of Cryptocurrencies? 119 The Case for a National Cryptocurrency 122 Regulation and the Future of Blockchain: Which Approach Will Succeed? 124 Web 3.0 – The Internet of Value 127 Blockchain – An Elixir for Anti-Money Laundering? 129 Facilitating Online Crypto-Payments Now and in the Future 132 A New Law for Derivatives Markets and the Use of Smart Contracts 134 PayTech and Blockchain: Adjusting for Security and Risk 137 Cryptocommodities: An Essential Element of Decentralized Payments 140 5. Payments in Practice The Perspective of a Passionate Payments CEO 148 Plugging the Data Black Hole: How Mobile Self-Checkout Can Help Revive the High Street 152 How UnionPay Quick Pass is Beating Alipay and WeChat Pay in China 155 How Payment Agility and Cash-for-Carbon Can Solve a Global Problem for Mankind 158 Revolutionizing the Retail Industry Through Integrated Payments Systems 162 Asset Management and Payments in India – So Near and Yet So Far 164 Exploiting the Value of Data Embedded in Payments Systems 167 Reinventing the Customer Experience by Focusing on the After-Payment Emotional Experience 170 How Open Banking and Payment Touchpoints Will Save Banks 172 Why Personal Financial Management Will Be Embedded Into the Next Generation of Payments 175 How Helping Microbusinesses Accept Digital Payments Could Transform Kenya’s Economy and Enhance Inclusion 178 How Decentralization Can Create a Customer-Centric Ecosystem 182 6. Blueprint for Change A Blueprint for Change 188 Accelerating the Adoption of PayTech Innovations 192 How to Build a Successful PayTech Product 195 The Future of Digital Payments Market Infrastructures 198 It’s Money, Jim, But Not as We Know It 201 Payments as Open Business Banking Enabler for the Gig Economy 206 The Financial Arms Race: The Game with No Rules 209 How Network Paradigms Can Lead to New Payments Innovations 212 It’s the Ecosystem, Stupid! Keeping Ahead in a Payments Ecosystem 215 Mobile Money: Creating a Cash-Light Africa to Solve the Financial Inclusion Problem 217 Back to the Future: A Miraculous Time-Trip Through the Future, Present and Past of Payments 222 Fifteen Ways in Which Our Digital Future Will be Shaped by PayTech 225 List of Contributors 229 Index 236
Includes index