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...

Financial services technology and its effect on the field of finance and banking has been of major importance within the last few years. The spread of these so-called disruptive technologies, including Blockchain, has radically changed financial markets and transformed the operation of the...

Am Anfang war Bitcoin. Die digitale Währung weist zahlreiche Innovationen auf und ermöglicht schnelle, kostenlose und vertrauliche Transaktionen von Guthaben. Nach einem gemächlichen Start vollzog die erste Kryptowährung eine aussergewöhnliche Entwicklung, die innerhalb eines Jahrzehnts zu...

This handbook provides the first comprehensive overview of the fast-evolving alternative finance space and makes a timely and in-depth contribution to the literature in this area. Bringing together expert contributions in the field from both practitioners and academics, in one of the most...