Palgrave Handbook of FinTech and Blockchain

Maurizio Pompella is Professor of Financial Intermediaries Economics and Director of Economics and Management of Financial Intermediaries MSc, at the School of Economics and Management, University of Siena, Italy. A PhD Supervisor and Visiting Professor at LSU-NN, SibFU, and OMSU, Russian Federation since 2014, Maurizio also serves as an Adjunct Professor at Charles University in Prague since 2012. He is on the Editorial Board of The Review of Business (St. John’s University New York, US), the Vestnik of LSU (Nizhniy Novgorod, RF), EKONOMIKA (Vilnius University, LT), and Business, Management and Education (GTUV, LT). Maurizio is highly sought after for his teaching, and has lectured at universities in Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Russia, and China. Among his other scholarly pursuits, he has been serving as a reviewer for the prestigious Journal of Risk and Insurance, and is the Editor of the series Palgrave Studies in Risk and Insurance.   Roman Matousek is Professor of Financial Economics at Queen Mary University of London, UK. Before joining QMUL, Roman was appointed as Director of the Global Centre for Banking and Financial Innovation at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is also International Professor at the Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business, Universiti Utara Malaysia and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Shandong Normal University, China. Roman has also been appointed as the Visiting Research Economist at SEACEN Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where he leads a project on “Cross-border interbank contagion risk analysis.” Roman held the appointments on the editorial boards of several journals including Associate Editor of the Journal of Banking & Finance, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, and Managing Editor of InternationalJournal of Monetary Economics and Finance.

• 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 Challenges and competitiveness of Fintech companies in Europe, UK, and US, an Overview.- Chapter 6: Fintech Unicorns.- Chapter 7: Fintech, Bigtech and Banks in India and Africa.-Chapter 8: Fintech and its impact on the real economy, lessons from the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan.- Part II: BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY AND CYBER RISK.- Chapter 9: Alternative Data in FinTech and Business Intelligence.- Chapter 10: Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies - mechanisms, governance, and applications.- Chapter 11: Blockchain and Structured Products.- Chapter 12: Categories and Functions of Crypto-Tokens.- Chapter 13: Emerging prudential approaches to enhance banks’ cyber resilience.- Chapter14: Platform Development in Blockchain, Risks and Regulation.- Chapter 15: Blockchain and Cyber Risk:  Identifying areas of cyber risk and a risk-based approach for Executives.- Part III: BLOCKCHAIN IN FINANCIAL SERVICES.- Chapter 16: Fintech and Financial Intermediation.- Chapter 17: Financial Disintermediation: The Case of Peer to Peer Lending.- Chapter 18:Fintech and Blockchain based Innovation, from Disruption to post-Pandemic Scenario.- Chapter 19: Digital Currencies and Payment Systems, Chinese way into Internationalisation of Renminbi.- Chapter 20: Cryptocurrencies and other Digital Asset Investments.- Chapter 21: How does digital transformation improve Customer Experience?.- Chapter 22: Fintech and Blockchain based Innovation, from Disruption to post-Pandemic Scenario.

“The handbook is targeted toward interested readers and academics who want to delve deeper into the topic of FinTech. Since FinTech is a rapidly evolving field of research, this handbook provides an excellent overview of the current state. … the authors offer valuable insights and demystify FinTech, blockchain technology and digital currencies … The Palgrave Handbook of FinTech and Blockchain is a must-have for market practitioners, scientific researchers, and experienced finance students interested in FinTech, blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies.” (Luca J. Liebi, Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, Vol. 38 (1), 2024)