Overview
- Explores FinTech from both Shari’ah and corporate perspectives, exploring it as a global phenomenon
- Provides analysis of the Shari’ah model of FinTech, presenting a SWOT analysis and outlining conventional practices
- Examines the opportunities, risks and takaful solutions that Islamic FinTech presents and covers regulatory standards and frameworks
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Islamic FinTech: Its Challenges and the Professional Way Forward
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This timely book addresses the effects and implications of rapid technological changes within the financial services industry on Islamic finance and Islamic banks. Exploring current challenges, opportunities and threats, the authors provide an overview of how FinTech can operate within an Islamic context, under the Shari’ah principles or the Halal framework, for example. Examining the potential opportunities of Islamic FinTech from a socio-economic perspective, this edited collection will be of use to anyone researching FinTech or Islamic Finance as well as practitioners and policy-makers involved in banking and financial services.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Mohd Ma’Sum Billah is a Professor of Finance, Insurance, FinTech and Investment at the Islamic Economics Institute of King Abdul Aziz University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He is an internationally renowned Islamic finance scholar. He has served and contributed to academia and corporate industries for over 20 years providing management, teaching, research and problem-solving, particularly in the areas of Islamic finance and insurance (Takaful), and the Halal standard. Mohd has published 32 books and chapters in books as well as over 200 articles in journals and on social media. He has presented at numerous conferences, seminars, executive workshops and industrial training sessions around the globe. In addition, he has been affiliated with various companies, universities and financial institutions including central banks, international corporate organisations, governments and NGOs in his capacity as a member on boards, an advisor, a strategic decision-maker and a reformer with a strategic solution-provider. His areas of interest include Islamic finance and insurance (Takaful), crowdfunding, investment, Waqf, capital markets (Sukuk), social finance, the SDGs and FinTech.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Islamic FinTech
Book Subtitle: Insights and Solutions
Editors: Mohd Ma’Sum Billah
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45827-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45826-3Published: 28 January 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45829-4Published: 28 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-45827-0Published: 27 January 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XLIV, 465
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Financial Services, Business Finance