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"Examines how finance is being transformed by technology and innovation including AI, blockchain, BigData, cloud computing, cryptocurrencies, central bank digital currencies, and distributed ledger technology. Explores how societies can best benefit from, and how regulators and policymakers might best approach, the FinTech revolution"--
List of contents
1. Introduction; Part I. Digital Transformation of Finance and Regulation: 2. Evolution of FinTech; 3. Smart Regulation; 4. RegTech and the Reconceptualization of Financial Regulation; 5. COVID-19, Digital Finance and Existential Sustainability Crises; 6. Drivers of Change: Efficiency, Financial Inclusion, and Sustainability; Part II. Addressing the Challenges of Innovation in Finance: Introduction; 7. Regulating Artificial Intelligence in Finance; 8. Distributed Ledger Technology, Blockchain and Finance; 9. Decentralized Finance and Embedded Regulation; 10. Data Regulation and Financial Regulation; 11. Enabling a Balanced Proportional Approach to Innovation: Regulatory Sandboxes, Innovation Hubs and Beyond; Part III. Building Better Financial Systems: Introduction; 12. Building the Infrastructure for Digital Financial Transformation; 13. Digital Identity; 14. Electronic Payments, Stablecoins and Central Bank Digital Currencies; 15.Digital Financial Transformation: Lessons from the EU; Part IV. From FinTech to TechFin to BigTech to FinTech 4.0: Balancing the Opportunities and Risks of Scale and Concentration in Digital Finance: Introduction; 16. Of TechFins, Digital Financial Platforms, BigTechs and FinTech 4.0; 17. The New Systemic Risks: Cybersecurity and Data Risks; 18. The New SIFIs: FinTech, TechFin, Scale and Connectivity; 19. The Challenge of Scale: Addressing Concentration and Dominance in Digital Finance; 20. Conclusion: Building Better Financial Systems; Index.
About the author
Ross P. Buckley is one of the world's most cited and read FinTech scholars. Professor Buckley leads a major, six-year Laureate research project at UNSW, Sydney into the regulation of FinTech. He advises governments and regulators around the world and has twice been a Fulbright scholar, at Yale and Duke.Douglas W. Arner is one of the leading policy researchers on the interaction of finance, technology, regulation and development. Professor Arner is the Kerry Holdings Professor in Law, a Senior Fellow of the Asia Global Institute and Associate Director of the HKU-Standard Chartered FinTech Academy at the University of Hong Kong. He works with international organizations, governments, regulators and leading private sector firms around the world.Dirk A. Zetzsche holds the ADA Chair in Financial Law (inclusive finance) and leads the House of Sustainable Governance & Markets at the University of Luxembourg. Professor Zetzsche is one of the most well-known authors on Fintech regulation, a frequent consultant to regulators and parliaments, and a regular guest at all the leading universities and academic conferences across the Globe.
Summary
Examines how finance is being transformed by technology and innovation including AI, blockchain, BigData, cloud computing, cryptocurrencies, central bank digital currencies, and distributed ledger technology. Explores how societies can best benefit from, and how regulators and policymakers might best approach, the FinTech revolution.
Foreword
Three global experts provide a comprehensive view of the FinTech Age, combining the perspectives of finance, technology and regulation.
