Decoding shadow banking : a primer -- Myth of Chinese banks' success and shadow banking -- Financial regulatory architecture : status quo -- Central bank and monetary policy -- Regulating wealth management products -- The logic (or illogic) of local government debts out of control -- Optimizing...

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...

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...