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FIELDS OF POTENTIAL USE OF CRYPTOCURRENCIES IN THE PAYMENT SERVICES MARKET IN POLAND – RESULTS OF AN EMPIRICAL STUDY

Copernican Journal of Finance & Accounting

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Title FIELDS OF POTENTIAL USE OF CRYPTOCURRENCIES IN THE PAYMENT SERVICES MARKET IN POLAND – RESULTS OF AN EMPIRICAL STUDY
 
Creator Piotrowska, Anna Iwona; WSB University in Toruń
 
Subject Smart cryptocurrency; bitcoin; digital payments; financial innovation
G20; E42; O31
 
Description The payment services market in Poland is particularly open to new payment solutions. The most important financial innovations of the recent years include cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin is the most well-known of them and its applications cover payments and investments. The article aims to determine the potential for using cryptocurrencies in individual segments of the payment services market in Poland. The paper considers the following research hypothesis: Representatives of the financial sector see a potential for a widespread use of cryptocurrencies in the payment services sector in Poland. The aim of the paper was achieved and the hypothesis verified on the basis of selected results of a survey among representatives of institutions operating in the financial market in Poland. The study, primarily carried out by the author, presents the opinions of experts representing the broadly understood community of professionals from the payment services market in Poland. Their views concern the directions in which innovations in the payment services sector may develop and the prospects for the use of cryptocurrencies in that area.
 
Publisher Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu
 
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Date 2017-03-09
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://apcz.pl/czasopisma/index.php/CJFA/article/view/CJFA.2016.023
10.12775/CJFA.2016.023
 
Source Copernican Journal of Finance & Accounting; Vol 5, No 2 (2016); 201-217
Copernican Journal of Finance & Accounting; Vol 5, No 2 (2016); 201-217
2300-3065
2300-1240
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://apcz.pl/czasopisma/index.php/CJFA/article/view/CJFA.2016.023/11426
 
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