Description
Handbook of Blockchain, Digital Finance, and Inclusion, Volume 1: Cryptocurrency, FinTech, InsurTech, and Regulation explores recent advances in digital banking and cryptocurrency, emphasizing mobile technology and evolving uses of cryptocurrencies as financial assets. Contributors go beyond summaries of standard models to describe new banking business models that will be sustainable and will likely dictate the future of finance. The volume not only emphasizes the financial opportunities made possible by digital banking, such as financial inclusion and impact investing, but it also looks at engineering theories and developments that encourage innovation. Its ability to illuminate present potential and future possibilities make it a unique contribution to the literature.- Explores recent advances in digital banking and cryptocurrency, emphasizing mobile technology and evolving uses of cryptocurrencies as financial assets- Explains the practical consequences of both technologies and economics to readers who want to learn about subjects related to their specialties- Encompasses alternative finance, financial inclusion, impact investing, decentralized consensus ledger and applied cryptography- Provides the only advanced methodical summary of these subjects available today
Table of Contents
1. Reshaping the Financial Order2. From Ant Financial to Alibaba's Rural Taobao Strategy - How Fintech is Transforming Social Inclusion3. The M-Pesa Technological Revolution for Financial Services in Kenya: A Platform for Financial Inclusion4. Financial Inclusion in the Digital Age5. Using Broadband to Enhance Financial Inclusion6. Mobile Technology and Financial Inclusion7. The Cross-Section of Crypto-Currencies as Financial Assets8. Econometric Analysis of a Cryptocurrency Index for Portfolio Investment9. Financial Intermediation in Cryptocurrency Markets – Regulation, Gaps and Bridges10. Legal Risks of Owning Cryptocurrencies11. InsurTec15h and FinTech: Banking and Insurance Enablement12. Understanding Interbank Real-Time Retail Payment Systems13. Real-Time Inbound Marketing: A Use Case for Digital Banking14. Regulation and Supervision in a Digital and Inclusive World15. Singapore Approach to Develop and Regulate FinTech 16. RegTech: Building a Better Financial System 17. Ambient Accountability18. Peer-To-Peer Lending19. EU VAT Implications of Crowdfunding20. Decentralised Trust: A Path to Financial Inclusion
