E‐finance: status, innovations, resources and future challenges

Purpose - This purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the status of e-finance and discuss related issues and challenges. Provides data about growth of e-finance in the last decade. Introduces advances and innovations in e-finance and challenges facing the financial services and IT industries. Design/methodology/approach - The paper employs the archival method of reviewing related literature (theoretical, applied and empirical) and organizing and presenting the topics to provide an overview of e-finance status. Findings - The major contributions and finding of this paper include all areas of e-finance, application of technology to e-finance, growth of the e-finance in the financial services industry. Research limitations/implications - The paper provides areas of e-finance that face many different challenges and calls for further research in a number of areas related to e-finance technology and the interface of financial services and IT. Practical implications - The paper brings all scattered information and data about e-finance under one umbrella that would make scholars and practitioners aware of advances in e-finance and applications of innovations and new technology to financial services provided. Originality/value - The main value or contribution of this paper is bringing together most of available literature, advances, innovations, application of IT in the financial services industry and showing how organizations could benefit from such innovations. It also provides ideas to scholars for further research in this area.

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