Introduction to the Special Issue on Financial Technology (FinTech) Research

Abstract

In 2020 a call for papers was distributed to gather submissions for a special issue on financial technology (FinTech) research to be published in April 2021. In this introduction we provide statistics about the importance of financial technology in the global financial markets, provide a summary of research category topics that have been identified in a previous study (Suryono, Budi and Purwandari, 2020), and note which of these topics are addressed in the article that is published in this special issue.