This book argues that the 2007/08 financial crisis revealed fundamental flaws in how the financial sector had evolved over the previous three decades. While access to financial services has improved, the total stock of debt in the global economy has risen to more than twice the size of global...

Chapter 1. A historical Perspective on Disruptive Technologies -- Chapter 2. A Taxonomy of FinTech Innovation -- Chapter 3. Cryptocurrency Mining Protocols: A Regulatory and Technological Overview -- Chapter 4. The development of InsurTech in Europe and the strategic response of incumbents --...

Chapter 1: Financial Markets: Problems and Prospects -- Chapter 2: Financial Markets: Current Trends and Factors that Determine the Functioning of Financial and Credit Institutions. Chapter 3: Paradoxes of Financial Market Institutions: Traditions and Ecosystems -- Chapter 4: The role of...

1. Introduction; Nadia Linciano, Claudia Guagliano and Paola Soccorso -- Part I. Disclosing Non-financial Information -- 2.The Role of Finance in Sustainable Growth; -- 3. Information as a Driver of Sustainable Finance; S. Lovisolo -- Part II. The State of the Market -- 4. Corporate Governance and...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part 1: The Regulation of Cross-Border Finance -- Chapter 2: Financial Regulation and Systemic risk -- Chapter 3: The Regulation of Globalized Finance -- Part 2: Cross-Border Regulation in the EU: The Passport and the Equivalence Regime -- Chapter 4: The Passport...

1. Emergence of i-FinTech in the Contemporary Socio-economic Reality -- 2. FinTech Vs. i-FinTech: A Dichotomy -- 3. FinTech and Maqāsid Dichotomy under the Prism of the Non-Neutrality of Techniques -- 4. Central Banks and Financial Authorities: Towards the Advancement of I-Fintech -- 5....

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Modified Historical Institutionalism -- Chapter 3: The Emergence of the Indonesian FSA -- Chapter 4: The Indonesian FSA and Stymied Portfolio Investments Liberalizaton -- Chapter 5: Emerging Challenges to Domestic Implementation of Portfolio Investments...

1. Financial Integration, Bank Competition and Intra-Eurozone Foreign Direct Investment -- 2. Export Margins, Employment Skills and Financial Conditions: Stylized Facts from Greek Exporters -- 3. Why a revival of Greek manufacturing is a prerequisite to ensure a prosperous future for the country...