China's Fintech Explosion : Disruption, Innovation, and Survival

Sara Hsu

ISBN 10: 0231196563 / ISBN 13: 9780231196567

Published by Columbia University Press Aug 2020, 2020

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Neuware - In China's Fintech Explosion, Sara Hsu and Jianjun Li explore the transformative potential of China's financial-technology industry, describing the risks and rewards for participants as well as the impact on consumers. They cover fintech's many subsectors, such as digital payment systems, peer-to-peer lending and crowdfunding, credit card issuance and internet banks, blockchain finance and virtual currencies, and online insurance. The book highlights the disruption of traditional banking as well as the risks of fintech and regulatory technology. Hsu and Li describe major companies including Alipay and Tencent, developer of WeChat Pay and a wealth-management business, and other leading fintech firms such as Creditease, Zhong An Insurance, and JD Finance. Offering expert analysis of market potential, risks, and competition, as well as case studies of firms and consumer behavior, China's Fintech Explosion is a must-read for anyone interested in one of the world's breakout sectors.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: China's Fintech Explosion : Disruption, Innovation, and Survival
• Publisher: Columbia University Press Aug 2020
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0231196563
• ISBN 13: 9780231196567
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 163H x 27D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 163 millimeters height by 27 millimeters depth
• Weight: 566 grams

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Synopsis

Financial technology―or fintech―is gaining in popularity globally as a way of making financial services more efficient and accessible. In rapidly developing China, fintech is taking off, catering to markets that state-owned banks and an undersized financial sector do not serve amid a backdrop of growing consumption and a large, tech-savvy millennial generation. It is becoming increasingly likely that some of China’s fintech firms will change the way the world does business.

In China’s Fintech Explosion, Sara Hsu and Jianjun Li explore the transformative potential of China’s financial-technology industry, describing the risks and rewards for participants as well as the impact on consumers. They cover fintech’s many subsectors, such as digital payment systems, peer-to-peer lending and crowdfunding, credit card issuance, internet banks, blockchain finance and virtual currencies, and online insurance. The book highlights the disruption of traditional banking as well as the risks of fintech and regulatory technology. Hsu and Li describe major companies including Alipay and Tencent, developer of WeChat Pay and a wealth-management business, and other leading fintech firms such as Creditease, Zhong An Insurance, and JD Finance. Offering expert analysis of market potential, risks, and competition, as well as case studies of firms and consumer behavior, China’s Fintech Explosion is a must-read for anyone interested in one of the world’s breakout sectors.

About the Author

Sara Hsu is a visiting scholar at Fudan University’s Fintech Research Center. She was previously associate professor of economics at the State University of New York at New Paltz.

Jianjun Li is professor of finance at the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing. His many books include Informal Finance in China: American and Chinese Perspectives (2009), coedited with Sara Hsu.