Financial services technology and its effect on the field of finance and banking has been of major importance within the last few years. The spread of these so-called disruptive technologies, including Blockchain, has radically changed financial markets and transformed the operation of the industry as a whole. This is the first multidisciplinary handbook of FinTech and Blockchain covering finance, economics, and legal aspects globally. With comprehensive coverage of the current landscape of financial technology alongside a forward-looking approach, the chapters are devoted to the spread of structured finance, ICT, distributed ledger technology (DLT), cybersecurity, data protection, artificial intelligence, and cryptocurrencies.  Given an unprecedented 2020, the contributions also address the consequences of the current emergency, and the pandemic stroke, which is revolutionizing social and economic paradigms and heavily affecting Fintech, Blockchain, and the banking sector as well, and would be of particular interest to finance academics and researchers alongside banking and financial services professionals.

Maurizio Pompella is Professor of Financial Intermediaries Economics and Director of Economics and Management of Financial Intermediaries MSc, at the School of Economics and Management, University of Siena, Italy. A PhD Supervisor and Visiting Professor at LSU-NN, SibFU, and OMSU, Russian Federation since 2014, Maurizio also serves as an Adjunct Professor at Charles University in Prague since 2012. He is on the Editorial Board of The Review of Business (St. John's University New York, US), the Vestnik of LSU (Nizhniy Novgorod, RF), EKONOMIKA (Vilnius University, LT), and Business, Management and Education (GTUV, LT). Maurizio is highly sought after for his teaching, and has lectured at universities in Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Russia, and China. Among his other scholarly pursuits, he has been serving as a reviewer for the prestigious Journal of Risk and Insurance, and is the Editor of the series Palgrave Studies in Risk and Insurance.   

Roman Matousek is Professor of Financial Economics at Queen Mary University of London, UK. Before joining QMUL, Roman was appointed as Director of the Global Centre for Banking and Financial Innovation at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is also International Professor at the Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business, Universiti Utara Malaysia and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Shandong Normal University, China. Roman has also been appointed as the Visiting Research Economist at SEACEN Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where he leads a project on 'Cross-border interbank contagion risk analysis.' Roman held the appointments on the editorial boards of several journals including Associate Editor of the Journal of Banking & Finance, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, and Managing Editor of International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance.