This paper discusses the key considerations of CBDC design to balance benefits and risks and presents best practices in CBDC design from a global perspective. Using China's CBDC as an illustration, this paper discusses two-tier or multi-tier ledger design and proposes ten enablers of mass...

"Title page" -- "Table of Contents" -- "Copyright" -- "Dedication" -- "Preface" -- "Background" -- "Purpose" -- "Themes" -- "Acknowledgment by David LEE Kuo Chuen" -- "Acknowledgment by Robert Deng" -- "Volume 1: Cryptocurrency, FinTech, InsurTech, and Regulation" -- "List of Contributors" --...

Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency using blockchain and has been the market leader since the first bitcoin was mined in 2009. After the birth of bitcoin in the Genesis Block, more than 1000 altcoins and crypto-tokens have been created with at least 919 trading actively on unregulated or...

"Financial Management in the Digital Economy adopts an integrated approach to synthesize the various areas in finance into a consolidated framework and implements the theories and practices in the world of digital economy. The first part of this book extends the fundamentals of asset management...

"In the digital era, emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, and blockchain have revolutionized various ways of people's daily lives and brought many opportunities and challenges to the industries. With the increasing demand for talents in the fintech realm, this book...