"This book is the second part of Applications and Trends in Fintech, which serves as a comprehensive guide to the advanced topics in fintech, including the deep learning and natural language processing algorithms, blockchain design thinking, token economics, cybersecurity, cloud computing and...

"In the digital era, emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, and blockchain have revolutionized various ways of people's daily lives and brought many opportunities and challenges to the industries. With the increasing demand for talents in the fintech realm, this book...

"Inclusive Disruption serves as a primary guide to help readers understand what financial technology is and how it has evolved to change the future financial landscape. The central ideas of fintech are explained in details, with topics ranging from distributed innovation, inclusive blockchain to...

We employ the stochastic dominance (SD) approach that utilizes the entire return distribution to rank the performance of exchange-traded funds as traditional mean-variance and CAPM approaches may be inappropriate given the nature of non-normal returns. We find second and third-order stochastic...

This paper will review some of the innovation thoughts such as creative destruction, innovation paradox and leapfrog economics, and explore the idea of decentralisation and distributed innovation. Examples of growth of FinTech companies in China and FinTech policy response from Singapore will be...

This paper discusses the key considerations of CBDC design to balance benefits and risks and presents best practices in CBDC design from a global perspective. Using China's CBDC as an illustration, this paper discusses two-tier or multi-tier ledger design and proposes ten enablers of mass...