Handbook of Blockchain, Digital Finance, and Inclusion

Handbook of Digital Finance and Financial Inclusion: Cryptocurrency, FinTech, InsurTech, Regulation, ChinaTech, Mobile Security, and Distributed Ledger 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 likely to dictate the future of finance. The book not only emphasizes the financial opportunities made possible by digital banking, such as financial inclusion and impact investing, but 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.

A companion Volume Two of The Handbook of Digital Banking and Financial Inclusion: ChinaTech, Mobile Security, Distributed Ledger, and Blockchain emphasizes technological developments that introduce the future of finance. Descriptions of recent innovations lay the foundations for explorations of feasible solutions for banks and startups to grow. The combination of studies on blockchain technologies and applications, regional financial inclusion movements, advances in Chinese finance, and security issues delivers a grand perspective on both changing industries and lifestyles.

Written for students and practitioners, it helps lead the way to future possibilities.

• 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

Autorentext

Prof David LEE Kuo Chuen, founder of several companies including California based Left Coast and Singapore's Ferrell Group. He is a non-executive director of two listed companies. He is the founding investor in ZCash, Qtum and a few other blockchain companies. He is an advisor to Financial Inclusion Institute, and was the Director of the Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics at Singapore Management University. He graduated with BSc, MSc and PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was the Group Managing Director of OUE and Auric Pacific. He founded and managed one of the most successful hedge funds in 1998 for property investment in Asia with several commercial buildings and more than 100 units of residential units. He founded Premium Land and was the property developer for Ferrell Residences, a high-end 24th story residential building in 2006.

His operation and managing experience includes F&B, manufacturing, hospitality, hedge funds, stockbrokering, property management, property development, REITs, medical plastic components, listing and de-listing of companies, start-ups and multinationals. He is the editor and an author of the American Library Association Outstanding Award Reference Book titled "Digital Currency by Elsevier and the LASIC model for scalable technology companies. He has been nominated by Internal Consulting Group as a Global Thought Leader for Fintech and Blockchain.

Inhalt

Volume 1 FinTech 1. Digital Finance: Hinternet, LASIC, Ant Financial and M-Pesa 2. From Ant Financial to Alibaba's Rural Taobao Strategy: How Fintech is Transforming Social Inclusion 3. The M-Pesa Technological Revolution for Financial Services in Kenya: A Platform for Financial Inclusion 4. Financial Inclusion in the Digital Age 5. Digital Finance 6. Using Broadband to Enhance Financial Inclusion 7. Mobile Technologies and Financial Inclusion 8. Financial Inclusion, Digital Currency and Mobile Technology Cryptocurrency 9. The Cross Section of Crypto-Currencies as Financial Assets 10. CRIX Index: Analysis of a Cryptocurrency Index for Portfolio Investment 11. Financial Intermediation in Cryptocurrency Markets - Regulation, Gaps and Bridges 12. Legal Risks of Owning Cryptocurrencies Digital Banking and Insurance 13. InsurTech and FinTech: Banking and Insurance Enablement 14. Understanding Interbank Real-Time Retail Payment Systems 15. Real-time Inbound Marketing: A Use Case for Digital Banking 16. Regulation & Supervision in a Digital and Inclusive World 17. Singapore Approach to Develop and Regulate FinTech 18. Big Data, Smart Data and Data Technology in the Regulatory Context 18. Ambient Accountability: Shared Ledgers, Glass Banks and Radical Transparency in Financial Services 20. Peer to Peer Lending/Marketplace Lending and Regulatory Environment 21. EU VAT Implications of Crowdfunding

Volume 2 China FinTech 1. The Game of Dian Fu: The Rise of Chinese Finance 2. Balancing Innovation and Risks in Digital Financial Inclusion -Experiences of Ant Financial Services Group 3. Regulating FinTech in China: From Permissive to Balanced 4. Big Data Technology: Application and Cases Security 5. Trust Management in Mobile Platform 6. Security Issues in In-Store Mobile Payment Blockchain 7. Blockchain - From Experimentation to Production 8. Blockchain 101: An Introduction to the Future 9. Betting Blockchain Will Change Everything - SEC and CFTC Regulation of Blockchain Technology 10. Global Financial Institutions 2.0 11. Public Blockchains and Operation Risk 12. Blockchain Architectures for Electronic Exchange Reporting Requirements: EMIR, Dodd Frank, MiFID I/II, MiFIR, REMIT, Reg NMS and T2S Financial Inclusion 13 .Financial Inclusion and Mobile Technology 14. Financial Inclusion in South East Asia 15. From the Ground Up: The Financial Inclusion Frontier 16. FinTech, Financial Inclusion and Micro Finance Institutions: A Case Study 17. FinTech: Harnessing Innovation for Financial Inclusion Inclusion and Innovation 18. Inclusive Growth as Democratizing Productivity 19. Decentralised Trust: A Path to Financial Inclusion Emerging Technology 20. Inclusion or Exclusion? Trends in Robo-Advisory for Financial Investment Services 21. Autonomous Finance 22. How 3D Printing will Change the Future