About the Book:
Being able to make and receive payments is an
essential facet of modern life. It is integral to the banking and finance
systems, and it touches all global citizens. In some areas, payment systems are
rapidly evolving – moving swiftly from paper payment instruments, to
electronic, to real-time – but in others, underdeveloped payment systems hold
back economic and social development.
This book is intended to assist the reader in
navigating the payments landscape. The author explores highly topical
areas, such as the role of payment systems in enabling commerce to
contribute to the development of emerging economies, the evolution of payment
systems from paper instruments to computerization, the role of
cryptocurrencies, and the slow decline of plastic credit and debit
cards owing to alternative forms of payment being introduced.
Altogether, this book
provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution of payment and offers
projections for the future, encouraging readers to explore their own
predictions, using the framework that the book has provided. It is vital
reading for technologists, marketers, executives and investors in the FinTech
sector, as well as academics teaching business and technology courses. |
About the Author:
Peter
Goldfinch is
a payments specialist who has developed extensive business and technical
knowledge from delivering solutions. In 1991, he co-founded the GFG Group, a
consultancy and services company. In the mid-2000s, GFG became a payments and
cards product company that was sold in 2014 to Wirecard. In 2002, he left
GFG and joined Visa Asia Pacific as CTO Domestic Processing before rejoining
the GFG in 2005 as General Manager for Asia. In 2010, Peter returned to
consultancy. |
