The official position of the financial and political authorities of Europe is that there will never be any restructuring of Euro area sovereign debt. But the ability of governments to raise sufficient domestic resources to service their debts cannot be guaranteed; so this official position implies...

This paper derived from a lecture give at the Sibos 2012 conference in Osaka, Japan (October 2012). Barcodes are the ubiquitous business standards used for the visual capture of information at retail point of sale and in business and healthcare supply chains. While the business and economic...

New financial technologies (FinTech) have erupted around the world. Consequently, there has been a considerable increase in academic literature on FinTech over the last five years. Research tends to be scantily connected with no coherent research agenda. Significant research gaps and important...

The European sovereign debt crisis has triggered debate between self-styled ‘fiscal federalists' – urging loans and transfers amongst Euro area member states to support adjustment of unsustainable deficits – and ‘fiscal hawks' – proposing stronger and more rigorously enforced central...