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Part 1: Fintech Innovations and Trends
Chapter 1: Fintech Innovations and Financial Markets: An Introduction
K. Thomas Liaw
Chapter 2: Fintech Venture Capital
Douglas J. Cumming and Armin Schwienbacher
Chapter 3: The Future of Finance: Why Regulation Matters
Mark Fenwick and Erik P.M. Vermeulen
Chapter 4: Digital Currencies: What Role in Our Financial System?
Gregory Claeys and Maria Demertzis
Part 2: Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies
Chapter 5: Decentralized Autonomous Risk Transfer on the Blockchain
Alexander Braun, Niklas Hausle and Stephan Karpischek
Chapter 6: Distributed Ledger Technologies and Blockchain for FinTech: Principles and Applications
Raghava Rao Mukkamala and Ravi Vatrapu
Chapter 7: Initial Coin Offerings: A Statistical Analysis of the Main Characteristics
Paola Cerchiello and Anca Mirela Toma
Chapter 8: Initial Coin Offerings: a New Trend in the Market
Ana Garcia Rodriguez
Chapter 9: Price Discovery in the Bitcoin Futures and Cash Markets
Tatja Karkkainen
Chapter 10: Trading and Regulation of Cryptocurrencies, Stablecoins and other Cryptoassets
Anil Savio Kavuri and Alistair Milne
Chapter 11: Cryptoassets and Financial Crime: a European Union Perspective
Robby Houben and Alexander Snyers
Part 3: Fintech in Banking
Chapter 12: Fintechs: Unbundling to Re-bundling in the Open Industry of Banking
Anna Omarini
Chapter 13: Is Fintech a Threat or a Promise to Banks?
Krishnan Dandapani, Mohammad Hashemi Joo, and Yuka Nishikawa
Chapter 14: Virtual Rush: The Race for Virtual Banks in the Asia-Pacific Region
Jackson Mueller
Chapter 15: The Restructure of China's Banking Industry by Artificial Intelligence and Fintech
Zhuming Chen, Jing Li, Xiangyu Zhang, Xin Li, Jinghong Zeng, Shihan Wang and Weihan Zhang,
Part 4: Fintech in Payments and Lending
Chapter 16: Consumer Payment Preferences and the Impact of Technology and Regulation: Insights from the Visa Payment Panel Study
Tom Akana
Chapter 17: Meet People Where They Are: Blending Formal Credit using Informal Financial Traditions
Tom Akana
Chapter 18: Peer-to-Peer Lending Risk Management
Arianna Agosto
Part 5: Fintech in Other Financial Services
Chapter 19: Rethinking Automated Investment Adviser Disclosure
Nicole G. Iannarone
Chapter 20: Market Risk for Robot Advisory
Paolo Pagnottoni and Gloria Polinesi
Chapter 21: Financial Technology in the U.S. Municipal Fixed Income Market
Timothy J. Stevens
Chapter 22: Proptech: The Real Estate Industry in Transition
Marc Feth
Part 6: Fintech Regulatory Issues
Chapter 23: Machine Learning Implications for Banking Regulations
Lihong L. McPhail and Joseph E. McPhail
Chapter 24: Regulating Fintech in Canada and the United States: Comparison, Challenges and Opportunities
Ryan Clements
Chapter 25: Cryptocurrency Market Reactions to Regulatory News
Raphael Auer and Stijn Claessens
Index
Biography
K. Thomas Liaw is a Professor of Finance in the Economics and Finance Department at St. John's University, New York, USA.






