Stres, toplum içerisindeki tüm bireylerin yaşadığı ve kelime olarak sıkça kullandıkları psikolojik bir durumdur ve bireyin kendisi, çevresi ve çalışma alanındaki olaylar karşısında ortaya koyduğu tutum ve davranışlarına yön veren olgular olarak değerlendirmek mümkündür. Stres birey üzerinde olumsuz etkiler oluşturabileceği gibi olumlu etkiler de oluşturan bir olgudur. Bu nedenle yaşamın bir vazgeçilmesi olarak kabul edilen stresin optimum bir düzeyde olması, bireyi fiziksel ve duygusal olarak motive edecek ve hedeflerine ulaşmasına katkı sağlayacaktır.

Stres yönetiminin en önemli koşul bireyin çevresini kontrol edebilmesidir. Bu kontrolde temel amaç; stres nedenlerini ortadan kaldırmak veya kontrol altına almak, stresin etkilerini ortadan kaldırmak ve bireyleri karşı karşıya kaldıkları stres faktörlerine karşı daha güçlü kılarak, dirençlerini artırmaktır. Böylece tamamen ortadan kaldırılması mümkün olamayan stres, birey üzerinde verimlilik, enerji ve atikliğe doğru olumlu bir güç oluşturmaktır. Diğer bir ifadeyle amaç, stresi tamamen ortadan kaldırmak değil, optimum bir düzeyde tutmaktır.

Bu çalışmada stres ve stres belirtilerinin neler olduğu ve stresin yönetilebilmesi için bireysel, örgütsel ve çevresel açıdan ne tür tutum, davranış ve aktivitelerin yapılması gerektiği hakkında yol gösterici bilgiler sunmaktadır. Ayrıca günümüzün en önemli sıkıntıları arasında yer alan gelir yetersizliği veya tasarruf yapamamanın bireyler üzerinde oluşturduğu finansal stres konusu hakkında da bilgi verilmiş ve akademisyenlerin finansal stres düzeyleri hakkında ampirik bir çalışma yapılarak ve sonuçları değerlendirilmiştir.

Stresle ilgili bilgi sahibi olmak isteyen okurlar ve birçok farklı alandan akademisyenin ilgisini çekerek literatüre önemli bir katkı sağla

Globalization and related technological developments have increased competition and put organizations in a struggle to survive in an extremely difficult market condition. Organizations adopt their technologies and infrastructures to today’s conditions to gain a sustainable competitive advantage and maintain their existence. However, all these efforts of organizations are easily imitated by rival companies and may cause the loss of competitive advantage.

The resource-based view provides additional information that strategic human resource is the scarce, valuable, inimitable and non-substitutable resources of organizations, thus enabling them to gain a competitive advantage. According to this view, the competitive advantage of the organization is achieved by combining valuable internal resources. Nowadays, sustainable competitive advantage is provided not by environmental factors or physical capital but by human capital (employees) efficiency. In this context, the attitudes and behaviors of employees who make up human resources are important for their organizational success. Many studies emphasize that positive attitudes and behaviors (e.g. innovative work behavior, work engagement, job satisfaction) in employees have important contributions to the success of the organization, while similarly negative attitudes and behaviors (e.g. organizational silence, turnover intention) are one of the main reasons for the failure of the organization.

In our book, literature has been created on the definition, antecedents, and organizational results of new and current concepts that are newly conceptualized in the literature and are still in their infancy. It is considered that this cumulative literature within the book will be a source for future studies on these subjects and will provide important insights for practitioners.

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.

Economic cybercrime is one of the unwelcomed consequences of unprecedented intrusion of the Internet in our daily lives. Academic interest in understanding the causes and adverse impacts of cybercrime is growing. Opportunity perspective, which perceives individuals’ daily routines and lifestyles as the primary facilitator of victimization, has been widely applied as a theoretical and conceptual framework in cybercrime victimization research. However, this approach put the responsibility of the victimization on victims explicitly, which hampers the application of crime prevention and reduction efforts. This book presents the Contextual Vulnerabilities approach based on the significant findings of a doctoral study conducted at Durham University in the United Kingdom. Contextual vulnerabilities approach posits that cybercrime victimization is the outcome of the confluence of contextual factors that are mostly beyond victims’ control. This approach presumes that controlling individual (micro-level), macro-level and socio-cultural vulnerabilities may prevent cybercrime victimization. Though the preliminary goal of this book is to provide a new theoretical perspective to scholars researching victimization in cyberspace, I hope the wider audience would find it informative.