Chapter 1. An Overview of Technologically Enabled Finance -- Chapter 2. Innovations in Alternative Finance in Historical Perspective -- Chapter 3. A Layman’s Guide to Bitcoin and Blockchain -- Chapter 4. An Introduction to Cryptocurrencies -- Chapter 5. The Role of Utopia in the Workings of...

The traditional role of a bank was to transfer funds from savers to investors, engaging in maturity transformation, screening for borrower risk and monitoring for borrower effort in doing so. A typical loan contract was set up along six simple dimensions: the amount, the interest rate, the...

1. Introduction -- 2. General Observations -- 3. FinTech and Market-based Financing -- 4. European Approaches to FinTech: The Role of Regulation and the Evolution of Supervision -- 5. FinTech, Chain Transactions and Open Banking -- 6. FinTech Firms -- 7. FinTech and Money -- 8. FinTech, RegTech...

This book explores financial regulation, particularly regulation on misselling of over-the-counter derivatives, which has been a pressing issue in many jurisdictions since the 1990s. To do so it applies the accumulated theories of comparative law and regulations to conduct of business regulation...

Part I. Blockchain Economics and Financial Market Innovation -- Corporate Finance in the New Business Ecosystem in Digital Age -- The Global Financial System's New Tool: Digital Money -- Redesigning Current Banknotes with Blockchain Infrastructure: A Model Proposal -- Initial Coin Offerings:...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Fintech and its historical perspective -- Part I: FINTECH & BLOCKCHAIN: INTERNATIONAL OVERVIEW -- Chapter 3: Financial Engineering and ICT in the past -- Chapter 4: Fintech and Blockchain: Contemporary Issues, New Paradigms and Disruption -- Chapter 5: The...

1: Introduction -- Part I: Classical Monetary Theory -- 2: A Reinterpretation of Classical Monetary Theory.-3: On Some Classical Monetary Controversies -- 4: The Real Bills Doctrine in the Light of the Law of Reflux -- 5: Classical Monetary Theory and the Quantity Theory -- 6: Monetary...

Zinssätze und Anleihen -- Futures und Forwards -- Swaps -- Optionen -- Grundlegende Modelle der Optionsbepreisung -- Kritische Analyse bestehender Finanzmodelle und problematische Entwicklungen auf den Finanzmärkten.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: Sustainable products -- Chapter 2: Who likes SIBs? A bibliometric analysis of academic literature -- Chapter 3: Fighting Poverty And Inequalities Through Social Impact Bonds: Learning From Case Studies For Supporting The Covid-19 Response -- Chapter 4.Green...

Ch. 1: What is Disintermediation Economics: An introduction (Psarrakis) -- Part A: Disintermediation in Microeconomics -- Ch. 2: Distributed Ledger Economics: Organizations, Incentives and Strategy (Psarrakis) -- Ch. 3: Economics of Smart Contracts: Efficiency and legal challenges...