Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

9-2015

Abstract

In the past several years, there has been a lot of activity in the world of financial technologies involving card and payment services, new business products and processes involving mobile phones and location-based services, and also new money capabilities such as Bitcoin and block chain technology. The genesis of this Electronic Commerce Research and Applications Virtual Special Issue (VSI) project grew out of the Editor-in-Chief’s recognition that this journal’s first Special Issue on mobile payments appeared in 2008, when there was still a lot of hype about mobile phones and how mobile payments might work. Today, the past prognostications about mobile payments and ‘the future of money’ seem much closer to reality. We nevertheless wonder: How will mobile devices grow to support even greater financial services functionality by the year 2020? Or 2025? And how will payments and money be handled in support of economic exchange in the years to come?

Discipline

Computer Sciences

Research Areas

Information Systems and Management

Publication

Electronic Commerce Research and Applications

Volume

14

Issue

5

First Page

261

Last Page

264

ISSN

1567-4223

Identifier

10.1016/j.elerap.2015.09.005

Publisher

Elsevier

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