The Financial Industry 4.0 Part 2

Dear Colleagues,

In 2019–2020, we successfully launched a Special Issue on The Financial Industry 4.0, which attracted many submissions—articles that were accepted and published in the Special Issue were among the top-viewed and top-cited articles of IJFS in 2020. Given that the role of technology and innovation in the financial sector has been, and is going to be, more and more important—especially in a post-COVID-19 era where work-from-home and social-distancing are in place—we decided to launch a new Special Issue on the same topic of The Financial Industry 4.0-Part 2.

The potential areas to be included in this Special Issue include but are not limited to:

• The development and performance of technology-based financial firms such as FinTech, InsurTech, RegTech, WealthTech and RiskTech.
• Technological development and implementation at incumbent financial institutions and their impacts.
• The relationship between technology-based financial firms and incumbent players.
• The roles of technology and innovation in the financial sector, especially in the post-COVID-19 era.

Dr. Thanh Ngo
Prof. Dr. Aviral Kumar Tiwari
Dr. Tu Le
Guest Editors

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