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:...

Einleitung -- Die Regierung Biden und die kopernikanische Wende -- Modern Monetary Theory als Teil der Volkswirtschaftslehre -- Was ist Wirtschaftspolitik? -- Wirtschaftspolitik auf Grundlage der MMT -- Ausblick.

1. Why Sustainable Finance? Why Now? -- 2. What Puts the Sustainable into Sustainable Finance -- 3. The Chequered History of Climate Finance -- 4. Sustainable Finance: The Policy Framework -- 5. Measuring and Reporting Sustainability Impacts -- 6. The Role for Central and Public Banks.

Chapter One New Thinking on Dangerous Situation—A Great Power in the Transformation -- Chapter Two Uncover the Truth—Ecosystem of Internet Finance -- Chapter Three Vanguard of Internet Finance—Third-party Payment -- Chapter Four An Initial Attempt—Roller-coaster Online Financial...

This open access book gives a concise introduction to the practical implementation of monetary policy by modern central banks. It describes the conventional instruments used in advanced economies and the unconventional instruments that have been widely adopted since the financial crisis of...

Basiswissen zu Kryptowerten -- Aufsichtsrechtliche Einordnung von Kryptowerten -- Entwicklungen auf nationaler und europäischer Ebene -- Gegenüberstellung und kritische Würdigung der regulatorischen Ansätze.