Neoliberal normların git gide yerleştiği 1980 ve sonrası süreçte sosyal bilim araştırmacıları aile işletmelerine olan odaklarını arttırmışlardır. Bu ilginin artmasında aile işletmelerinin toplam işletme payı içinde en yüksek orana sahip olmasının etkisi ve bu etki sonucunda aile işletmelerinin daha iyi anlaşılma ihtiyacı önemli kriterlerdendir. Bu kitapta, aile işletmeleri ve stratejik yönetim bakış açısı bir araya getirilerek uzun vadede aile işletmelerine kalıcı bir yol haritası çizmelerine yönelik bir kaynak sağlama amacı güdülmüştür. Her biri farklı yazarlarca kaleme alınan kitabın içeriğinde stratejik yönetim çatısı altında temel stratejilerden başlanarak kurumsal, uluslararası stratejileri de içine alan bir kaynak oluşturulmuştur. Emeği geçen tüm yazarlarımıza teşekkür eder, aile işletmelerine farklı bir bakış açısı sunmasını temenni ederim.

Dünyanın değişik bölgelerinden birçok insan bir noktadan bir başka noktaya çeşitli nedenlerle seyahat etmektedir. İnsanlar, günlük rutinlerinden veya monoton yaşadıkları hayatlarından uzaklaşmak, kaçmak, dinlenmek, yeni yerler keşfetmek için turizm olayına katılırlar. Böylece bedenen ve ruhen rahatlayarak yeniden gündelik yaşamlarına dönerler. Tatil yapmak her yaştan insan için doğal bir haktır. 15-24 yaş arasındaki gençlerin bulundukları yerden ayrılıp, çalışma amacı dışında, gezmek, eğlenmek, eğitim almak, yeni kültürleri tanımak ve dostlar kazanmak amacıyla tatil yapmaları gençlik turizmi olarak değerlendirilmektedir. Gençler enerjik yapıları nedeniyle “güneş-deniz-kum” klasik üçlü dışında, maceraya yönelik aktif spora dayalı alternatif turizm türlerini tercih ederler. Otostop yaparak sırt çantaları ile özgürce dünyayı dolaşmak isterler. Dünya barışına katkı sağlamak, geleceğe umutla bakmak için gençlik turizmi teşvik edilmeli ve desteklenmelidir.

The book “Digital Transformation in Banking Industry – Financial Security, Audit and Business Perspective” explores the effect of digital transformation on Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regime by focusing on digital Know Your Client (eKYC), artificial intelligence in AML, crypto currency, and virtual assets by drawing attention on ongoing compliance challenges in “virtual assets era”. Furthermore, it explores Fintechs and future of conventional banking as well as remote auditing in banking industry.

This edition explores Fintechs and the future of conventional banking. This is to examine the Fintech structures that have recently gained great importance in the world and to evaluate the possible effects of the developments on traditional banking in the future. Considering the innovations that Fintech structures bring to payment systems, their impact on credit markets and the structure of blockchain-linked contracts, it is expected that they will have greater effects on the financial system in the future. In this context, the book analysis the effects of these structures on traditional banking by including the recent literature on the subject.

Remote auditing is one of the common methods that is suitable for today’s world with its flexible and technology-based structure. In our book we have dedicated a chapter which explores remote auditing (also known as virtual audit) and challenges as well as advantages of applying it.

A chapter is dedicated to AML Programs in Banking Industry in Covid-19 Era, which identifies challenges, good practices, and policy reactions to new ML/TF risks which can be also defined as financial security risks arising during the Covid-19 pandemic crisis and due to impact of digital transformation in banking industry.

A special attention is dedicated to the artificial intelligence in AML structures in banking and the role of artificial intelligence for detecting money laundering cases by decreasing the number of “false alerts” and increasing the quality of “real matches”. The book explores the role of artificial intelligence on increasing the efficiency and decreasing the manual work on daily basis for AML Compliance Officers.

The book explores virtual currency and blockchain by identifying ongoing compliance challenges from decentralized platforms, peer-to-peer cryptocurrency exchangers, anonymity-enhanced cryptocurrencies, and “jurisdictional arbitrage” (the ability of criminal actors to route their activity through countries with weak AML/CFT regimes). Blockchain/ Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) applications aside, certain properties of Virtual Currencies (including VCs associated with Initial Coin Offering – ICOs) entail special Financial Crimes Compliance (FCC) risks, some of which are detailed in our book.

Nowadays the Digital Identity (DI) services help financial institutions, especially banking industry, to offer several services efficiently and properly to their clients. By keeping this in mind, the measures for Covid-19, offering services in distance remains the best solution in the market. The DI provides provable and sharable identity, which is particularly important when on-boarding clients but also has a key protection role to play when users are transacting. In our book we have dedicated a chapter related to digital ID system and eKYC.

We believe this edition contributes to current literature for the effect of digital transformation in banking industry from the financial security, audit and business perspective and it is important for compliance officers and bankers, policy makers, strategists, academics, students, and professionals in the field of compliance.

The change of the geopolitical realities, the emergence of new regional dynamics and the perception of security in Central Asia have also changed current perspectives in the region. Fully revised and updated to cover the latest informations and developments, the book will provide comprehensive, accessible and successful introduction for those who are interested in the Central Asia region. As the editors, we have filled a long-neglected gap by producing a volume that authoritatively covers the states of the region. The book will become a definitive text for the teaching as it presents in-depth explorations of systemic and sophisticated way of understanding the actors and processes and offers case study encompassing many subjects about Central Asia. It conbines old and new perspectives with discerning care.

This book –The Changing Perspectives of Central Asia in the 21^st Century- has provided readers with prominent knowledge of independence period, actors, minority issues, nation-state building process, energy, security, water, boundary, regional integration and foreign policies of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan with each other and with Russia, China, America, the EU and Turkey. The book claims that geopolitical realities, regional dynamics and the perception of security in Central Asia have changed. Thus, the book focuses on environmental degradation, cyber insecurity and social unrest triggered by sovereign debt traps. These discussions highlight the necessity to reconsider the traditional perception of security as the analysis has to go beyond the state to address a wide range of security threats.

Dr. Murat YORULMAZ is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management and Organization at Trakya University, Edirne.

Dr. Serdar YILMAZ is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Muğla.

Karayolu taşımacılık sektöründe kazalar ve diğer riskler sebebi ile sigortanın büyük bir önemi vardır. Karayolu taşımacılığı, eşyanın taşımacıya teslim edildiği yerden varış noktasına karayolu alt yapısı kullanılarak yapılan taşıma şeklidir. Bu kitap Türkiye’de karayolu lojistik ve sigorta sektörlerini sentezleyerek; bu konudaki boşluğu dolduran önemli bir akademik araştırmadır. Yazarın sigorta sektöründeki bilgi birikimi ve tecrübelerini aktararak hazırladığı “Karayolu Yük Taşımacılık Sigortaları ve Kullanımı Üzerine Bir Araştırma” kitabı konuyla ilgilenen her kesimin dikkatle okuması gereken bir çalışmadır.