Introduction to Fintech Using Excel: In an R-assisted Learning Environment (Springer Texts in Business and Economics) Hardcover – 21 July 2025

Yuxing Yan . Springer Nature . English

This book serves as a bridge, leveraging the familiarity of Excel and the power of R to make FinTech accessible to all. Financial Technology (FinTech) has revolutionized areas once dominated by traditional finance. However, the need to learn a programming language often creates a barrier for many learners. Excel-based learning builds confidence with tools that are already familiar to advanced students, while minimal R programming is required—no prior R skills needed, just two simple lines of code. Hidden functions unlock powerful FinTech capabilities with ease. With this book, students can learn to generate public and private keys effortlessly,create a Hash for any given phrase, use the Merkle Tree to combine 100 transactions into a block's Hash, develop QR codes for websites or public keys, verify (x,y) values on the Elliptic curve for cryptography, and run models for both Unsupervised and Supervised Learning. The book includes definitions, exercises, and solutions for students to develop the skills to navigate and excel in the world of FinTech.

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About the Author

Since graduated from McGill with a Ph.D. in finance, Dr. Yuxing Yan has been teaching various finance courses at 8 universities (2 in Canada, 1 in Singapore and 5 in the US). He has 23 publications including papers published in Journal of Accounting and Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, Real Estate Review, Pacific Basin Finance Journal, Applied Financial Economics and Annals of Operations Research. He is good at several computer languages such as R, Python, SAS, Matlab and C. From 2003 to 2010, he worked at Wharton School as a consultant helping researchers with their programs and data issues. He has published 5 books: Python for Finance (2014), Python for Finance (both Chinese and Korean translations, 2017), Python for Finance (2nd ed., 2017), Financial Modeling using R (2016) and Financial Databases (2008, with S.W. Zhu, in Chinese).

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