FinTech on the Web: An Overview

In this paper, we provide an overview of ACM TWEB’s special issue, Financial Technology on the Web. This special issue covers diverse topics: (1) a new architecture for leveraging online news to investment and risk management, (2) a cross-platform analysis of the post quality and users’ behaviors, and (3) an empirical study on disentangling decentralized finance (DeFi) compositions. In addition to a guide for the special issue, we also share a brief opinion on the future of FinTech on the Web.