Refers to the factors—individuals, groups, firms, organizations, and institutions (micro ecosystem); and cultural, social, and material attributes (macro ecosystem)—outside the individual FinTech entrepreneur—that are conducive to, or inhibitive of, the choice and decision of a person or group of persons to become FinTech entrepreneur or enterprising.
Published in Chapter:
Instilling FinTech Culture in a Digitalized World: Defining, Issuing, and Opening Up
Wassim J. Aloulou (Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Saudi Arabia & University of Sfax, Tunisia)
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 28
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7110-1.ch004
Abstract
FinTech has revolutionized the financial industry by its disruptive innovations and emergent technology-enabled business models. After defining the concept of FinTech, the chapter sheds the light on its drivers, features, and challenges, and discusses the elements and attributes of the FinTech ecosystem and the diversity of FinTech models operating in the sector. Then, the chapter emphasizes the role of a FinTech culture as a vibrant digital, agile, customer-centric, creative technology-driven, and entrepreneurial culture in a digitalized and changing world. Such culture is needed for enterprising individuals and startups, incumbents, and established financial and technology firms and for the economy and the society as a whole to nurture a FinTech community and benefit from the ecosystem's resources and opportunities. The chapter suggests certain recommended future research directions for the emerging field of FinTech at individual, corporate, incumbent, and institutional levels to be investigated in countries developing the FinTech industry.