Handbook of Blockchain, Digital Finance, and Inclusion, Volume 1: Cryptocurrency, FinTech, InsurTech, and Regulation

David Lee Kuo Chuen · Robert H. Deng

Aug 2017 · Academic Press

About this eBook

Handbook of Blockchain, Digital Finance, and Inclusion, Volume 1: Cryptocurrency, FinTech, InsurTech, and Regulation 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 will likely dictate the future of finance. The volume not only emphasizes the financial opportunities made possible by digital banking, such as financial inclusion and impact investing, but it 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.

• Explores recent advances in digital banking and cryptocurrency, emphasizing mobile technology and evolving uses of cryptocurrencies as financial assets
• 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

About the author

David LEE Kuo Chuen is a Professor of Financial Technology and Blockchain at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), an Adjunct Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS), a Council Member of the British Blockchain Association, Vice President of the Economic Society of Singapore, and Editor-in-Chief or Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Fintech and Annual Review of Fintech. He is also Chairman of the Global FinTech Institute (GFI), co-founder of the Singapore Blockchain Association, co-founder of the Blockchain Security Alliance, advisor to the Asian Development Bank, cryptocurrency advisor to the Asian Institute of Digital Finance (AIDF) of NUS, advisor to the SUSS Node for inclusive FinTech (NiFT), independent director of several technology companies in Singapore, angel investor in blockchain, WEB3, inclusive finance and AI innovation, senior advisor and Investment Committee member of Artichoke Capital which is backed by institutional and sovereign wealth fund limited partners.

Robert Deng is AXA Chair Professor of Cybersecurity, Director of the Secure Mobile Centre, and Deputy Dean for Faculty & Research, School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University (SMU). He received the Outstanding University Researcher Award from National University of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew Fellowship for Research Excellence from SMU, and Asia-Pacific Information Security Leadership Achievements Community Service Star from International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium. He serves/served on the editorial boards of ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, IEEE Security & Privacy, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, and Steering Committee Chair of the ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security. He is a Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of Academy of Engineering Singapore.