"Islamic Finance Researches" (IFR)

Challenges and Opportunities in Islamic Financial Technology

Document Type : Science - Research (Islamic Financial Theory)

Authors

1 Assistant Professor, Department of Accounting, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran

2 PhD Student, Department of Accounting, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran

Abstract

Islamic finance, developed on the basis of Sharia principles, can benefit from the FinTech technologies. FinTech has been a beneficial innovation for the financial services industry, especially by reaching diverse groups of customers leading to the improvement of the level of financial participations. Islamic FinTech has paved the way for the development of innovative products in accordance with Sharia, thus benefitting the Islamic consumers and creating more competitive advantage for the Islamic financial sector. The purpose of this research is to identify the challenges and opportunities of Islamic financial technology. For this purpose, a systematic evaluation and analysis of 270previously found cases have been done through qualitative research and metasynthesis including the 7 steps of Sandelowski and Barroso. At the end, the opinions of 10 experts and professors were collected by a questionnaire in 2022 and the quantitative entropy method was used to determine the coefficient effect of identified challenges and opportunities. Finally, the challenges and opportunities that have the greatest impact on "Islamic financial technology" have been the use of ethically oriented skilled people for specialized matters, the increase of automatic interaction with customers in order to improve services, the integration of the systems and the connection between customers and all banking operations, and absence of any time limit for performing banking services in the field of Islamic finance.

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Volume 11, Issue 2 - Serial Number 22
May 2022
Pages 837-874
  • Receive Date: 28 August 2022
  • Revise Date: 29 October 2022
  • Accept Date: 12 January 2023