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DOI: 10.17261/Pressacademia.2021.1529
JMML-V.8-ISS.4-2021(3)-p.218-234
Date Received: September 10, 2021 Date Accepted: December 22, 2021
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Khatri, A., Singh, NP, Gupta, N., (2021). Big data analytics: direction and impact on financial technology. Journal of Management, Marketing and
Logistics (JMML), 8(4), 218-234.
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ABSTRACT
Purpose- Digital infrastructure and technology advancements are steering the innovations in financial sector globally. The technology and data
driven aspect has fueled the Fintech sector, evolving at the tangent of mighty finance sector and revolutionary technology domain, especially the
digital technologies. The purpose of this paper is to show that most FinTech innovations, are significantly driven by big data analytics and its
efficient implementation.
Methodology- The use of latest ICT technologies lightens up the finance operations and services to exponential levels. Big data analytics is new
and requires comprehensive studies as a research field specially in the finance domain. The intent here is to study an adoption model specially IT
diffusion mode to Big data analytics that could detect key success predictors. The study tests the model for adoption of big data as novel
technology and the related issues. The paper also presents a review of academic journals, literature, to study the diffusion and adoption of big
data in to the finance domain.
Findings - The research reflects a significant interest and utility about Big data analytics value that epitomizes the rise of Fintech phenomenon.
Big data analytics may provide some competencies to the organizations that may consider its several dimensions along with its framework in the
pre-adoption phase or adoption phase or implementation or diffusion phase. The research also attempts to describe the several dimensions of
Big data analytics as a new technology. This shall be of good interest to the researchers, professionals, academicians and policy-makers.
Conclusion- The paper first defines big data to consolidate the different discourse and literature on big data. We also reflect the point that
predictive-analytics (with structured data) overshadows other forms: descriptive and prescriptive analytics (with unstructured data) which
constitutes more than 90% of big data. We also reflected on analytics techniques for unstructured data: audio, video, and social media data, as
well as predictive analytics. In the analysis and testing part we also performed the testing of the IT diffusion model which concludes that there
are significant relationships among IT-planning, IT-implementation and IT-diffusion.
Keywords: Fintech, big data analytics, IT diffusion, digital payment
JEL Codes: M10, M15, O32, O33.
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1. INTRODUCTION
Data analytics, especially big data analytics is claiming its due place in the industry and academia equally. The domains of business
and management are embracing all phases of data analytics starting from descriptive data analytics towards prescriptive data
analytics through predictive data analytics. Finance, retail, health sector, supply chain and almost every sector is practicing this
novel technique in the areas of wealth management, credit management, market basket analysis, apriori algorithms, health
prediction and prescription, etc. The advancements in digital technologies especially the new age sensors and other input devices
are capturing more and more data ranging in zeta bytes throughout and unending. The result is that the size of data is becoming
enormous, mammoth, highly voluminous in the form of ‘Big Data’, which in turn is being transformed in to business value through
business intelligence and big data analytics. The value hidden in the patterns of big data is being unlocked through modeling,
visualizations, knowledge discovery, adaptive algorithms and some other techniques.
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Fintech is a phenomenon in the service sector which utilizes digital technology to boost the efficiency in the new age financial
system with both set ups – legacy as well as startups. This buzz word is a combination of “finance” and “technology”, which
collectively implies the transformations achieved through the convergence of financial services and digital technology. Major
Indian examples are Paytm, freecharge, phonepe, payzapp. These companies offer new business models that promise more
flexibility, security, efficiency, and opportunities than established financial services (Lee 2015a). The innovator can be a new age
start-up (payU), a well-established technology company (payzapp- HDFC Bank), or a well-established service provider (like
jiomoney).
Figure 1: Pulse of Fintech 2018, Source: KPMG International
The literature shows the significant work in the domains of big data, financial technology or fintech and the testing of IT diffusion
model separately. No paper till now has focused on the impact of big data analytics on the fintech sector and tested the diffusion
of big data as technology in the fintech sector. This paper contributes the testing of IT diffusion theory of big data analytics as
technology on the fintech sector. Further this research also put light on the different dimensions of big data as emerging
technology along with its centricity in the fintech sector. This paper also put together the different concepts and evolution on the
fintech sector. The integration of these concepts and an empirical testing will help the scholars to understand the potential of big
data in the fintech sector and will help further in the future research. Studying the impact of Big Data Analytics in the financial
sector gives a rise to the Fintech phenomenon. The research questions for the study;
RQ1. How Fintech companies are driven by big data analytics and its efficient implementation?
RQ2. What are the key success predictors through adoption model of Big Data Analytics?
RQ3. What are the different dimensions of Big Data Analytics as a technology?
Flow of paper: This research paper starts with the introduction to Fintech, Data Analytics and Big Data along with examples and
the activity in the Fintech sector, followed by a comprehensive review of literature across the major databases. The criteria for
inclusion or exclusion is defined specifically in the review. The third part of the paper explains the research methodology followed
to conduct the overall research including hypothesis, questionnaire design, research design, data analysis, otology, taxonomy,
four eras of fintech and important concepts. The fourth part of the paper focus on Big Data Analytics for Fintech and it also focus
on the Technology Diffusion Theory and its use for Fintech Research in this paper. The fifth and penultimate part shows the
results of this research through various tables, a figure and hypothesis testing results. In the last this paper is concluded with
major takeaways and its importance for future researchers and scholars.
2. LITERATURE REVIEW
The methodology used for the selection and preparation of this paper is presented in Figure 1. The SLR blueprint is broadly
classified as i. Research Context, and ii. Research Area. This research covers first, the contemporary research inter-linking
information in terms of methodology, applications, result of the study, strengths, and limitations, if any using published research
articles. Two type of research were examined, namely, review of the literature and empirical study based publications. The
selected databases are EBSCO, Emerald, Elsevier, ProQuest, Scopus and Google Scholar digital databases with linear and cross
searches. Secondly, it covers the future research and directions highlighting the direction of the research. The research area of
this study is targeted to banking and fintech industry.
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Methods
Literature Research Optimization
Review
Application
Empirical
Results Studies
Strength
Limitations
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Review Protocol Development- Google Scholar was considered for extracting papers from these digital databases because;
i) there is an extensive amount of studies available in context with our topic that are indexed,
ii) it is the leading digital literature database which includes peer reviewed papers,
iii) it has extensive scientific and inter disciplinary information.
EBSCO, Emerald, Elsevier, ProQuest and Scopus were also reviewed for the papers.
Review Protocol Evaluation- In order to execute the inclusion criteria, exclusion criteria, and the selection of research papers, it
is important to examine and evaluate the quality of the papers. In fact, the aim of this assessment is to make sure that the results
of this study comes as suitable and impartial as possible. The different stages for data selection are shown in Figure 2 in a
sequential manner. Each of the stage shown in the figure is executed with the accompanying IC, inclusion criteria and EC.
Figure 3: Data Selection Stages
3. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
A descriptive research approach with Positivism is followed in this paper to study the relationship between the trust factor and
usage attitude and the research study is having a body of knowledge and research hypotheses. To summarize and generalize the
hypotheses testing, a quantitative study is carried out for this study that is derived from the existing theory of IT diffusion. Primary
data is collected through the self-administered questionnaires.
Hypothesis
The following set of hypotheses, as derived from the literature and our own research questions, were derived:
H1: Significant factors are there in IT planning.
H2: Significant factors are there in IT implementation.
H3: Significant factors are there in IT diffusion.
H4: Significant relationships exist among IT planning, implementation, and diffusion.
Questionnaire Design- The questionnaire was designed in two sections, A and B for data collection. The demographic variables
are gender, age, academic qualification level were included in part A and section B included the variables are used to measure
the tested constructs. All of the required/tested constructs were measured by the most efficient scale: Likert Scale on five points
(1-strongly disagree to 5- strongly agree).
Research Design
Sample Population: Engineers and Managers working at fintech companies in Gurugram, Haryana.
Target: PayU, LoanSimple, INDmoney, Freecharge, Home Credit, Hora.AI, PaisaDukan
Sample Size: 100
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Big Data- Big data can be structured as well as unstructured, most of the data captured now is the unstructured one including
audio, video, images and the unstructured text, which is beyond the structured capabilities of the conventional databases and
software solutions. Huge amount of real time or stream data is being captured via sensors, CCTV cameras and other devices,
which requires huge computational resources and capabilities in terms of storage and processing. Several new age software like
Tableau and Microsoft tools are now capable of generating live business value and intelligence from the live data itself.
Big Data Analytics- Big data is valueless in isolation. Its potential business value is unlocked only when it is tested and processed
with analytics for decision-making. To initiate an evidence or data based decision making, business organizations require efficient
and intelligent processes to transform higher volumes of fast-pace and diversified data into meaningful and contextual business
insights. The process of extracting and discovering insights from within big data can be divided into five different stages (Labrinidis
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&Jagadish, 2012), shown in Fig. 3. These five stages can be clubbed into two main sub processes: big data-management and big
data-analytics. Data-management includes the processes and technologies to capture, acquire and economically store data and
to prepare and efficiently retrieve it for further analysis. Big data-analytics includes the techniques used to analyze and acquire
intelligence and business value from big data. Therefore, big data analytics can be understood as a sub-process in the overall
process of ‘insight extraction’ from big data – live or historical.
Figure 4: Processes for Extracting Insights from Big Data (A. Gandomi, M. Haider)
Finance and Technology – Fintech- This study argues that the FinTech should be understood in a broader context in at least two
ways than as currently defined. The embrace of this broader conceptualization could be a sufficient condition to the proposition
that big data analytics provides the central insight into FinTech. First, advancements in the domains information, communications
and computer technologies (ICT) underlie most innovation in financial markets, starting centuries ago and until now. Second,
financial innovation based on technological advances is hardly new, infact, it has been driving financial market development for
much of history.
FinTech innovation has increased at high speed over the past three decades with the advent of financial engineering, a
mathematically-based sub-discipline that largely focuses on arbitrage, derivatives and innovations in financial products,
instrumentation and strategies. Today, FinTech assumes many forms with impact in financial sectors well beyond the scope of
financial engineering. A FinTech taxonomy is advanced that should enable prompt reaction – a regulatory paradigm for
remediation of FinTech malfunctions. This is a readiness paradigm enabling financial regulators and private party victims to
intercede quickly when FinTech fails. A concise history of select FinTech watersheds is reviewed to illustrate both successful and
failed FinTech regulatory approaches, and the role of digitizing huge historical databases to become FinTech big data.
Anticipatory FinTech regulation should be more broadly understood to target all major sectors of the financial industry as
traditionally articulated, including,
(1) investment banking; (2) startup finance; (3) securities, derivatives and commodities;
(4) brokerage, dealers and financial intermediaries; (5) investment advice;
(6) corporate disclosure, investor relations and corporate democracy;
(7) new forms of money and currency transactions; and
(8) the monitoring and enforcement of money flows particularly Anti-Money Laundering controls (AML).
Many FinTechs appeal to the cyber-libertarian goal to achieve successful separation from societal control irrespective of the
physical location of individuals or organizations. Stealth initial deployment, a chronic attribute of many FinTech, is examined as
FinTech operations migrate to rogue havens making FinTech stubbornly resistant to revealing forensic quality evidence. Consider
that many FinTechs employ the conventional supply chain elements of communicating, standardized documentary
instrumentation, trading platforms and the sock exchange markets. FinTechs generally challenge the (value added) role of
intermediaries.
Anticipatory FinTech Regulation is developed here as a big data approach to FinTech that balances three key FinTech influences;
(1) incentivizing FinTech innovation,
(2) enhancing market failure forensics and
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developed here acknowledges AI could develop a long and promising ascension, FinTech still awaits any significant
transformational impact from AI, despite repeated assurance from AI’s adherents of it’s transformative imminence. Any AI
revolution to a fifth FinTech era seems more likely to mature in the medium term future.
Simple Taxonomy for FinTech Big Data- Three major types of information comprise FinTech big data.190 This provisional
taxonomy will initially guide the clearance and incentivizing of these data to facilitate big data analytics. The three types are;
(1) data that directly enable internal control of active financial services operations,
(2) data that enable the monitoring of externalities produced by activities of FinTech participants and intermediaries, and
(3) public goods data.
Internal Control Data- Internal control data are typically produced by any party, its employees or third parties. Internal control
data are needed to optimize most all financial services decision-making and consequent actions. Generally, these data are sourced
in-house or provided by independent outsource service organizations.
Externalities Data- Externalities data are produced by stakeholders, employees or third part service providers/organizations. For
example, data aggregating to financial disclosures of publicly-traded companies is initially recorded by internal bookkeeping staff,
provisionally audited by internal auditors, then aggregated for financial or tax reporting by internal accounting personnel, all
typically are employees. These data are then subject to non-employee activities - audit and attest by independent auditors,
assessment by ratings firms, securities analysts and the financial press. Regulators may have regular periodic access to such data
(e.g., financial reports, tax returns) or episodic access during investigations, enforcement actions, litigation or audit. Watchdogs
and the press interpret data from various investigatory sources to constitute externalities data.
Public Goods Data- Information as public good data generally serves to enhance public monitoring and can be sourced from
internal, external and open sources. While financial performance data of publicly-traded companies are generally considered
public goods, these data tend to oscillate between free public access vs. proprietary accessibility only as purchased or subscribed
to under a data integrator business model. The relationship among the three is depicted by the seven regions revealed in Figure
5.
Figure 5: Information Production Taxonomy
Compliant with the standards, standards attract independent innovation to produce or use the standardized data, competition
among suppliers of data and analytical applications usually reduces cost, incents quality control competition, and permits
improvement innovation. Of course, monopoly ownership of data and data standards can lock-out competition, risks stagnation
and reduces the scale of data sharing, a potential oligopoly. On balance, data standardization potentially increases monitoring by
independent observers, while arguably increasing comprehensiveness and the discovery of key conditions, relationships, and
phenomena. Standardization encourages the ubiquity of sensors and enables sensor fusion, an analytic technique that expands
analytical opportunity. Standardization also encourages both consistency in analytics as well as innovation in analytics. Consider
how thresholds of big data analytics in the creditworthiness area have generally moved towards some consistency in suspicion,
corroboration, probative value of circumstantial evidence, and the sufficiency of direct evidence. FinTech big data miners can be
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expected to provide analyses that aids in the development, testing and justification of regulatory controls over FinTechs. This
dimension could also empower victims of FinTech externalities with at least circumstantial evidence that supports ancillary
control mechanisms such as private rights of action.
Ontology of FinTechs from a Chronological viewpoint- A provisional chronology of FinTech from the pre-FinTech
ancient/medieval era, through U.S. history in the 19th and 20th century, to the post-war modern era, and ultimately to the
modern FinTech period provides an opportunity to trace FinTech’s technological development history. This analysis also marks
key transformative change points and their disruptive challenges to FinTech public policy. Other scholars have proposed
typologies, some casting them as FinTech business models. For example, Lee and Shin argue that current and proposed FinTechs
should be divided into six discrete business models: (1) payments, (2) wealth management, (3) crowdfunding, (4) lending, (5)
capital markets, and (6) insurance.
They predict FinTech will face the greatest challenges in the areas of investment-management, customer-management,
regulatory challenges, technology-integration, security issues and privacy issues, and risk-management. The Partial FinTech
Chronology depicted in Figure I, illustrates the difficulty of taxonomy development, given an accelerated pace of technological
change.
Four Eras of Fintech: Tracing FinTech through Four Eras- After the pre-FinTech era of ancient through medieval times, we divide
FinTech into three modern eras that follow three major technological watersheds: first, electrical analog telecommunications,
second, computerized recordkeeping, and third, fusion of these first two into ICT deployed or under development in the current
era. The impact of FinTech, developed throughout the 20th Century, is spurred significantly by innovations and ubiquity of
telecommunications and computational power. FinTech’s second stage, the first of the modern era, roughly tracks industrial
capitalism. Much of FinTech innovation was based on analog electronic communications developed in the 19th century -
telegraphy and telephony. These twin innovations spurred significant FinTechs by improving communications that have extended
well into in the 20th century. Near instantaneous electronic communications made financial markets and services accessible
from/to across the U.S. and around the world. Major financial markets were enabled to more permanently coalesce into a few
of the world’s moret influential developing venues, including, New York, London, Hong Kong, Frankfurt,Tokyo, and others.
FinTech’s second modern era began to transition by the 1970s as computer recordkeeping finally invaded the “back office” of
insurance, commercial and investment banking. Computerization also permitted statistical risk analyses, important in risk
underwriting and financial analysis. This era also witnessed the development of electronic order processing, program trading,
electronic corporate democracy, and electronic financial disclosure.
Figure 6: Four Eras of Fintech
First FinTech Era - Pre-Industrial Origination- From ancient times to the industrial revolution, financial technologies developed
slowly, often spurred by conflict and in relation to religious activities. At the time of these FinTechs were introduction, each was
capable of producing big data for that time. Considering the difficulties in recording, storage, communicating and analyzing data
using technologies of the era, FinTechs created what becamr big data of that time in history. Most FinTechs originally developed
during this period persist in some form today and continue to be big data driven. Much of the ancient FinTech successes
developed in ancient Greece and Rome, with the Crusades, and the rise of mercantilism also influential. Stabilization of the
enduring FinTechs was guided by a few, large nation states, particularly imperialist nations of Western Europe which colonized
the New World such as the Dutch, Italians, English, Spanish, Prussians and Portuguese. Financial services are the infrastructure
for the development of trade and industrial-based commerce, the major growth of which developed in the first two millennia
AD. Four enduring FinTech first principles were developed during this origination era, then were extended and refined from
ancient times through the middle ages. Nearly all modern variations of financial services are established from these origination
era starting points; (1) Contract, (2) Money, (3) Intermediaries (4) Organized Exchange (auction) markets, and (5) Legitimation of
Debt.
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These five pillars are the bedrock institutions that support and expand into voluntary negotiated exchange under contract,
evolution from barter to recognition of money as secure and standardized medium of exchange, physical security for financial
assets and services by third parties, advanced quality control for recordkeeping, correspondent banking, syndication networks,
and standardized (auction) market mechanisms.
Second FinTech Era - Industrial Capitalism- The second era is the first stage in the modern era, roughly tracking the industrial
revolution through to the mid-20th century. Analog electronic telecommunications that developed in the 19th century,
telegraphy and telephony68 were most influential. This disruption permitted near instantaneous electronic communication to
and from centralized financial markets. Communication tied together geographically-separated exchange markets and provided
immediate visibility to supply, demand, completed transaction prices, and trading volume. At first, all these and other data
derived there from were recorded by hand and, too often, haphazardly at best, most likely due to cost, delays, technical
infeasibility, failures to embrace their social utility and a desire for opacity by some participants. However, advances in
recordkeeping remove most of these limitations permitting the accumulation of this information
into big data. This environment produced new financial services to accommodate higher volumes of speculative investment,
permit entrepreneurs to gain better access to capital raising, and expand the pools of potential investors and opportunities. The
democratization of investments also functioned to undermine banking as the solitary investment opportunity for many individual
savers who could transition to become investors. Many new financial market participants gained access from/to geographically
isolated areas. Major financial markets more permanently grew, yet coalesced, creating a somewhat geographically dispersed
financial services infrastructure that magnifies the development of an integrated exchange market despite dispersed venues. This
network eventually approximates a true national market system (NMS).
Following financial services were established from the second era; (1) Syndication (2) Financial Exchanges (3) Electronic funds
transfer (EFT) (4) Regulation (5) Disclosure Regime & its Intermediation
Third FinTech Era – Computerization- The third FinTech era, the second era of modern times, herein is called the computerization
era. The start of this era begins with the electronic computerization of financial records. For much of FinTech, this watershed was
probably reached when Wall Street was forced by the avalanche of increased trading records retained on paper to automate
recordkeeping in its “back office.” Exchanges outgrew their collective character as agents of competing members and banded
together into self-regulatory organizations (SRO) capable of metering, retaining, monitoring and supervising member activities
based on their separate big data collections. The FinTech big data relationship among the major FinTech sectors defined here is
becoming clearer: recordkeeping that populates big data accumulations, analytics, disclosure, regulation, institutions and trading
strategies are inextricably linked in feedback loops. Big data drives analytics, analytics inspire models, models produce
propositions, propositions inspire recommendations, recommendations imply actions, actions are manifest as innovations
embodied as trading strategies, such innovations are often implemented as transactions, results are measured then monetized
or deployed against activities of others, institutions are impacted by results, and institutions restart one or more of these cycles.
Following financial services were established from the third era;
(1) Automated clearing houses (ACH)
(2) Payment Card Ascension
(3) Countertrade
(4) Disclosure repositories
(5) Analytics Techniques
(6) Intermediation
(7) Electronic Data Interchange
(8) Trading Strategies
(9) Financial Institutions
Fourth Era of Modern FinTech – ICT - The fourth era of FinTech is upon us, starting roughly in the 1990s, persisting through today
and most likely extending into the near to medium term.127 It is defined by the ubiquity of ICT - a fusion of computerization with
rapid, high-throughput telecommunications of data, images, text and other data forms. Furthermore, at least four other
technologies enable this ICT era; (1) well-connected, secure and reliable Internet, (2) trustworthy and economical cloud
accessibility for posting and accessing large data sets, (3) robust private networks, and (4) interoperability based on highly
functional ICT standards. Finally, some might assert that AI contributes significantly to the current ICT era, however, solid evidence
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of this as a key watershed remains inconclusive. Following financial services were established from the fourth era; (1) ICT enabled
Payments (2) Toll Tags (3) Check Truncation (4) Electronic Payment Systems.
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sources. Next, provisional relationships and links among these data sets must be developed from various financial market
literatures, information vendors, public disclosures and regulatory data repositories. Third, proposed analytics must be tried and
tested for their explanatory or predictive validity. A key challenge to effective FinTech big data arises from the jealously guarded
proprietary information and the opaque financial performance of closely-held firms. This is a never-ending, continuous quality
improvement (CQI) process - big data requires constant replenishment, redesign and revision to maintain useful analytics.
4.3. Big Data Adoption Methods in Fintech: Direction Anticipation Crypto
This section is intended to demonstrate the feasibility of the anticipatory FinTech model by applying it to one of the most actively
discussed and current ICT era FinTechs: blockchain distributed ledger on which cryptocurrencies and smart contracts are based.
This exemplar implies several FinTech sectors discussed in the litanies above: intermediation, payment systems, the under-
banked, securities/commodities/foreign exchange trading, smart contracting and novel instrumentation, FinTech
standardization, security and privacy, and forensics. All these FinTech sub-fields have clear implications for both innovators and
regulators. For example, cryptocurrencies show promise to enhance money-laundering. Generally, this is a bad thing.
Cryptocurrencies may also enhance the big data analytics of anti-money laundering enforcement (AML) as more complete
cryptocurrency transaction records are based on enhanced blockchain forensics. The latter is probably a good thing. The ICOs of
recent years run afoul of many domains of the securities regulatory regime. These include: fraudulent get rich quick and Ponzi
schemes configured as unregistered initial public offerings or noncompliant private placements, payment for securities using
cryptocurrencies, prospectus-like offering documents masquerading as (boiler plate) “white papers,” cryptocurrency trading
platforms amounting to national security exchanges, Dodd-Frank swap reporting violations, sales of privately placed securities
with unaccredited investors, violation of various broker/dealer regulations, fraudulent statements in disclosure and promotional
documents, use of cryptocurrencies in the securitization of various assets and celebrity promotional endorsements, IPO rule
violations, fraud by public companies with various crypto currency assets, lines of business in exchanging cryptocurrencies for
traditional fiat currencies or debit cards, theft of cryptocurrencies asset holdings, and illegal crowdfundings. The number of cases
being pursued by the SEC and its sister agencies has increased over the years. Many cases hinge on how the initial coin offering
resembles the investment contract catch-all of a security. First, Howey constrains FinTech from assuming any claims structuring
that bear family resemblance to securities, contracts requiring an investment of money into common enterprises, promising
profits primarily from others’ efforts.
4.4. Technology Diffusion Theory
The three dimensions of IT adoption: IT planning, actual IT implementation, and IT diffusion were studied. Each one of the three
dimensions is necessarily important for the success of the following one in a mutually dependent relationship. IT planning involves
the alignment of the strategies to present and future operations and vison of the organization. IT implementation includes the
overall efforts for selecting and implementing new technology solutions, developing necessary skills, and measuring the
effectiveness and efficiency of new systems. IT diffusion is capable of managing change and the adoption and diffusion of new
technology solutions by the organizational members.
IT deployment: IT planning - This phase of IT planning provides strategic guidelines for IT deployment based on organizational
goals. IT planning consists of the first three phases of Rogers’ five-stage model of the implementation process, which are;
Knowledge – Persuasion – Decision. The IT planning dimension also covers the first two stages of Cooper and Zmud’s six-stage
model of the IT implementation process, which are; Initiation – Adoption.
IT implementation- The process in which it is assured that the new system is operational, and then users are allowed to take over
for use and evaluation. IT implementation includes almost every stage –start to end- that it passes through from the purchasing
or developing, until the system is achieving its goals for the members as well as the organization.
IT implementation includes the fourth stage of Rogers’ five-stage model: Implementation – Compatibility – Complexity – Trial
ability.
Adaptation- The process of adaptation ensures that the IT solution being implemented successfully and the training of the team
is comprehensive, the IT solution is ready to take over. The successful goal oriented implementation of IT in a business
organization depends on several interdependent factors. The planned goals of IT implementation should be realistic to get the
total commitment from the employees of the organization. According to Shenhar and Levy , both the technical and social systems
that contributes the organization, any approach to IT implementation must take into consideration to be successful.
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IT Planning
IT Diffusion
IT diffusion IT diffusion includes the last three stages of Cooper and Zmud’s six-stage model of the IT implementation process:
Acceptance - Routinization - Infusion
5. RESULTS
Employees at fintech companies were requested to fill the survey questionnaire (100 were distributed, 90 collected, 88 selected)
with questions including IT-planning, IT-implementation, and IT-diffusion. The constructs were taken from the existing scale from
the literature. 88 completed questionnaires were returned (98% response rate). Data was collected to identify the respondent’s
designation (management/employee) and experience with fintech companies. Of the 88 respondents, 68% were engineers;
approximately 27% were managers The average experience of the employees was 3 years, ranging from 1 to 6 years. For
presentation and interpretation, the analysis of collected data was divided into three groups:
1. IT-planning.
2. IT-implementation.
3. IT-diffusion.
IT planning: Of the eleven separate IT planning issues, adequate training and resistance to change were significant, indicated by
50% and 45% of participants, respectively. Rapidly changing technology (44%) and existing systems (40%) were other significant
concerns, reflecting the decision-dilemma faced by planning managers: how to leverage current IT investment in line with
innovations.
IT implementation: The major issue out of nine was quick solutions, indicated by 50% of participants. Politics, internal/external
(45%) and emerging technologies (45%) were other significant concerns.
IT diffusion: Of the ten separate issues, technology challenges and attitude to change were the significant ones, indicated by 60%
of the participants. Security is also significant concern (55%).
Table 1: Varimax-Rotation (Three-factor proposition for IT-planning issues)
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tests indicated the significant associations between IT-planning (innovation issues) and IT-implementation (deployment issues)
factors. Further, IT-planning issues were also significantly correlated with IT-diffusion issues. IT-implementation issues were found
to be significantly correlated with IT-diffusion issues. The results indicated that still more focus is expected in the case of novel
technologies which can help the successful deployment and diffusion of new technology.
Hypothesis testing results
H1: Significant factors are there in IT-planning.
H2: significant factors are there in IT-implementation.
H3: Significant factors are there in IT-diffusion.
H4: Significant relationships are there among IT-planning, IT-implementation and IT-diffusion.
Hypotheses were confirmed through factor analyses (FA) and regression tests.
Table 4: Regression Analysis (Implementation as a Function of Planning)
Dependent variable
Deployment issues R R square F
0.70 0.49 41.6
Innovation issues b Beta p-level
0.71 0
Table 5: Regression Analysis (Diffusion as a Function of Planning)
Dependent variable
Deployment issues R R square F
0.73 0.54 49.4
Innovation issues b Beta p-level
1.15 0
Table 6: Regression Analysis (Diffusion as a function of implementation)
Dependent variable
Ease of use issues R R square F
0.70 0.49 40.7
Innovation issues Beta p-level
1.08 0
IT Implementation
0.717
1.086
IT Planning
1.156
p<0.05
IT Diffusion
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6. CONCLUSION
This paper provisionally defines FinTech broadly and integrates big data analytics to inspire FinTech innovation, understanding
and regulation. The FinTechs receiving most contemporary, the “cool” technologies, largely dis-intermediate financial services,
obscure rogue transactions and disrupt financial markets. However, FinTech is actually much larger than contemporary practice
suggests. Indeed, FinTech may be a superior theme to understand the chronology and regulatory-delay in the public-policy
reaction to financial services externalities. Big data is a useful lens to understand FinTech, develop innovations in the FinTech
sector, and impose public-policies that encourage useful and profitable FinTechs and discourage the harmful ones. Contemporary
experience demonstrates that both market-failure and social-engineering impact FinTech innovations. Most FinTechs throughout
history achieved both (1) held unrealized big data potential when initially introduced and (2) now have inspired the application
of big data analytics. Furthermore, in the future, FinTechs can be better designed using big data analytics, better understood for
their intended and unintended consequences using big data, and more successfully regulated using big data forensics. Therefore,
big data inherently incentivizes, exposes and resolves FinTech challenges. The motive of this study is to describe, review, and
reflect on big data analytics in fintech sector. The paper first defined big data to consolidate the different discourse and literature
on big data. We also reflect the point that predictive-analytics (with structured data) overshadows other forms: descriptive and
prescriptive analytics (with unstructured data) which constitutes more than 90% of big data. We also reflected on analytics
techniques for unstructured data: audio, video, and social media data, as well as predictive analytics. In the analysis and testing
part we also performed the testing of the IT diffusion model which concludes that there are significant relationships among IT-
planning, IT-implementation and IT-diffusion.
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