Chapter One New Thinking on Dangerous Situation—A Great Power in the Transformation -- Chapter Two Uncover the Truth—Ecosystem of Internet Finance -- Chapter Three Vanguard of Internet Finance—Third-party Payment -- Chapter Four An Initial Attempt—Roller-coaster Online Financial...

Introduction -- Means of exchange: Ever present competition -- Platform-based currencies -- Bitcoin and arrival of Cryptocurrencies -- The Rich Landscape of Crypto -- Smart conrtacts and Blockchain -- Enterprise Blockchains -- Future full of Possibilities.

This book presents detailed case studies of the first commercial internet digital currency systems developed between 1996 and 2004. Transactions completed with the new technology circumvented all US financial regulations, an opening that transnational criminals exploited. Mullan explains how an...

This open access book tells the story of how Sweden is becoming a virtually cashless society. Its goal is to improve readers’ understanding of what is driving this transition, and of the factors that are fostering and hampering it. In doing so, the book covers the role of central banks,...

This book explores multidimensional issues concerning digital resilience and analyzes how people and organizations maintain, enhance and protect value stemming from digital technologies. Society is now heading for a future in which organizations and people will increasingly depend on digital...

Chapter 1. HumanRoboLab: Experiments with Chatbots in Management Education at Universities -- Chapter 2. Marketing in a Digital World -- Chapter 3. Human Resource Management in a Digital Environment -- Chapter 4. Virtual Business Incubators: A Support for Entrepreneurship in Rural Areas? --...

Chapter 1.Introduction: Money, Finance, & Production in Contemporary Commercial Republics -- Chapter 2.Money, Capital, & Investment: Fixing Some Critical Terms & Relations -- Chapter 3.Franchise Finance: A Brief Exposition & Exposé -- Chapter 4.Franchise Finance: Why & How We Got Here --...

Chapter 1. Digital Finance and Financial Services -- Chapter 2. Innovation and Fintech -- Chapter 3. Central Bank and Fintech: Regulatory Challenges and Framework -- Chapter 4. The Dematerialization of Money in the Age of Covid-19 Pandemic: A New Future for Digital Finance? -- Chapter 5....

1. Introduction -- Part I. The Cypherpunk Bible -- 2. In the Beginning -- 3. The Creator -- 4. The Disciples -- 5. he Genesis Block -- Part II. Cryptocurrency Corporatization -- 6. A New Testament -- 7. Public Ledgers, Private Wallets, and Crypto Vulnerabilities -- 8. Bitcoin Goes Corporate --...

Preface -- Chapter 1 Overview of the History of Money -- Chapter 2 On the Choice of Optimal Currency Denominations -- Chapter 3 The Impact of Denomination Choice on Commercial Trading: A Policy Evaluation of a New Iraqi Monetary System -- Chapter 4 Diffusion of Electronic Money and Choice of...