Does FinTech Revolution Lead to the Disintermediation of Banks? A Study into Islamic Bank Income

This paper aims to examine the impact of financial technology (Fintech) on Islamic banks’ income from perspective of the theory of financial intermediation. This study argues that the existence of banks as intermediaries due to transaction cost and asymme

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Fintech, Digital Currency and the Future of Islamic Finance Strategic, Regulatory and Adoption Issues in the Gulf Cooperation Council

Fintech, Digital Currency and the Future of Islamic Finance

Nafis Alam  •  Syed Nazim Ali Editors

Fintech, Digital Currency and the Future of Islamic Finance Strategic, Regulatory and Adoption Issues in the Gulf Cooperation Council

Editors Nafis Alam School of Accounting and Finance Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation (APU) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Syed Nazim Ali College of Islamic Studies Hamad Bin Khalifa University Doha, Qatar

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Foreword

FinTech has garnered an increasing amount of interest in recent years. Banks and financial institutions are taking steps to catch up with the digital and FinTech wave. At the outset, the new trends that are emerging in financial communities, such as digital banking, have been challenging the hegemony of the incumbent banks whose business model has remained constant over several years despite the changing industry landscape. Simultaneously, AI (Artificial Intelligence) is key to the future of digital banking, and more importantly, ethics in AI application is a recurring theme in the literature. Likewise, microfinancing, through the use of FinTech technologies, has opened up the banking sector to an entirely neglected part of the business sector. Recently due to the COVID-19 pandemic, digital finance has garnered much support from the users in GCC and beyond and FinTech will further dr