"Money makes the world go round -- and how efficiently it is moved between people, organizations and governments determines the health and profitability of the world economy. In the last decade the payments industry has seen massive transformation; new regulations, technologies and consumer...

"Title page" -- "Table of Contents" -- "Copyright" -- "Dedication" -- "Preface" -- "Background" -- "Purpose" -- "Themes" -- "Acknowledgment by David LEE Kuo Chuen" -- "Acknowledgment by Robert Deng" -- "Volume 1: Cryptocurrency, FinTech, InsurTech, and Regulation" -- "List of Contributors" --...

Over millennia, mankind has used hard cash in various forms ranging from shells to gold coins and paper. More recently, cash has become unpopular in political circles, as it effectively restricts states’ power to tax (explicitly or via negative interest rates) or to survey and potentially...

Titel -- Inhalt -- Vorwort -- Herausgeber -- Autorenverzeichnis -- Teil I: Aktuelle Entwicklungen im Payment-Markt -- Einführung -- Future Retail Payments: the Implications of Innovation for the Single Euro Payments Area -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Retail payments integration - the Single Euro...