by Abdul Rafay (Author, Editor)
About the Author
Abdul Rafay is a practitioner cum academician. For more than 23 years, Mr. Rafay has been working as a freelance advisor, consultant & trainer to a wide variety of public & private sector national and multinational companies in the areas of Financial Technology, Corporate Finance, Financial Policy & Implementation, Auditing & Assurance, Accountancy, Corporate Tax Management and System Consultancy. He has been providing consultancy to various industries including Textile, Auto Assembling, Footwear, Industrial/Agro Chemicals, Ice Cream/Dairies, Glass/Ceramics, Healthcare, Mining/Natural Resources, Packaging/Paper Sacking, Steel/Pipe Casting, Rice Processing, Brokerage/Co-operative Financing, Software Development, Real Estate, Printing/Publishing, and Construction/Civil Engineering, etc. Mr. Rafay is a Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan. He is also member of various national and international professional boies including Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), USA; Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), USA. Since 2001, he has been a life time member of Lahore Tax Bar Association. He has served as Co-regional Director (Founding) of Lahore-Islamabad Chapter of Professional Risk Managers International Association (PRMIA), Washington, USA (2011-2013). In 2012, he was nominated as Member: Education & Training Committee (ETCOM) of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan (ICAP). He is also a member of ICAP’s “Islamic Finance working group” which is closely in liaison with State Bank of Pakistan and other stakeholders for Islamic Finance Accounting and Auditing Standards. He is Alumni of Rausing Executive Development Center (REDC), Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan. In 2014, International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group) selected him for Training of Trainers (ToT) for Corporate Governance Action Planning for SMEs. He is also an approved trainer for Institute of Financial Markets of Pakistan (IFMP) established by Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan, the corporate regulator. In 2013, his name got included in the list of “Certified Directors” as per Clause (xi) of The Code of Corporate Governance 2012 issued by SECP. Since 1994, Mr. Rafay has also been associated with teaching in some of the top business schools of Pakistan. His specialized subjects of interest include: Strategic Corporate Finance, Financial Derivatives, Investments/Portfolio Analysis, International Financial Reporting Standards, Corporate Restructuring (Mergers & Acquisitions), Financial Statement Analysis & Corporate Taxation. He also served as an instructor in Civil Services Academy, Pakistan to train the CSS Officers selected by Federal Public Service Commission of Pakistan (FPSC). Currently he is a Professor of Finance & Accounting at University of Management & Technology, Pakistan. He has published more than two dozen research papers in indexed journals of repute in addition to contributing a chapter “Structural Mix of Credit Portfolios in Islamic Banking System: Evidence from a South Asian Economy (2017)” to edited Book “Advances in Islamic Finance, Marketing, and Management: An Asian Perspective” published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited, UK.
About this book
Financial institutions are tasked with keeping businesses of all sizes financially sounds while also providing accessible banking options to everyday individuals. Fintech, or financial technology, is an emerging disruptive technology in financial transaction that will change banking behavior for stakeholders and enable better traceability of funds against specific assets.
FinTech as a Disruptive Technology for Financial Institutions is an essential reference source that discusses applications of FinTech in financial institutions in small, medium, and large businesses and through cultural and religious filters. Featuring research on topics such as machine learning, market development, crypto-currency, financial security, blockchain, and financial technology, this book is ideally designed for bankers, business managers, econo-mists, computer scientists, academicians, researchers, financial professionals, and students.
Brief contents
Section 1 Emergence and Future of FinTech
Chapter 1 Crypto-Currency: Future of FinTech 1
Chapter 2 FinTech and SMEs: The Italian Case 14
Chapter 3 Emergence.of.Insurance.Technologies.(InsurTech):.The.Turkish.Case 42
Chapter 4 FinTech.for.Digital.Financial.Services:.The.African.Case 61
Chapter 5 Security.and.Privacy.in.FinTech:.A.Policy.Enforcement.Framework 81
Section 2 FinTech in Financial Markets
Chapter 6 Volatility.Estimation.in.the.Era.of.High-Frequency.Finance 99
Chapter 7 Algorithmic.Machine.Learning.for.Prediction.of.Stock.Prices 142
Chapter 8 FinTech.and.Stock.Market.Behaviors:.The.Case.of.Borsa.Istanbul 170
Section 3 FinTech and Islamic Finance
Chapter 9 Fintech.and.Shariah.Principles.in.Smart.Contracts 207
Chapter 10 Blockchain.for.Islamic.Social.Responsibility.Institutions 221
Chapter 11 Blockchain for Islamic Financial Services Institutions: The Case of Sukuk Financing 241
Compilation of References 263
About the Contributors 291
Index 300
Series: Advances in Finance, Accounting, and Economics
Pages: 302 pages
Publisher: IGI Global; 1 edition (January 18, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1522578056
ISBN-13: 978-1522578055