Special issue: Contemporary research on payments and cards in the global Fintech revolution

• Main Authors: KAUFFMAN, Robert John, Dan MA
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: Computer Sciences
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2709; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/3709/viewcontent/1_s2.0_S1567422315000678_main.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In the past several years, there has been a lot of activity in the world of financial technologies involving card and payment services, new business products and processes involving mobile phones and location-based services, and also new money capabilities such as Bitcoin and block chain technology. The genesis of this Electronic Commerce Research and Applications Virtual Special Issue (VSI) project grew out of the Editor-in-Chief’s recognition that this journal’s first Special Issue on mobile payments appeared in 2008, when there was still a lot of hype about mobile phones and how mobile payments might work. Today, the past prognostications about mobile payments and ‘the future of money’ seem much closer to reality. We nevertheless wonder: How will mobile devices grow to support even greater financial services functionality by the year 2020? Or 2025? And how will payments and money be handled in support of economic exchange in the years to come?