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Dear readers, This preface introduces the special issue on FinTech in Electronic Markets. The issue includes a total of eight papers, which cover diverse aspects in the broad FinTech universe. Seven papers emerged from the special issue call that was published in 2016 and one paper from a fast-track that was organized with the Business Information Systems Conference (BIS) from 2016. Taken alone, the number of submissions for the FinTech special issue call was larger than for regular special issues in Electronic Markets, which might suggest that FinTech is an active research field. This is remarkable since the term itself has only recently gained broad attention. For example, a simple query on Google Trends reveals that it was only in 2014 that the compound term BFinTech^ emerged on a broad scale and made the transformation of the financial industry visible to everybody (Arner et al. 2016). An industry that …