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.

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Fintech and its historical perspective
Part I: FINTECH & BLOCKCHAIN: INTERNATIONAL OVERVIEW
Chapter 3: Financial Engineering and ICT in the past
Chapter 4: Fintech and Blockchain: Contemporary Issues, New Paradigms and Disruption
Chapter 5: The Challenges and competitiveness of Fintech companies in Europe, UK, and US, an Overview
Chapter 6: Fintech Unicorns
Chapter 7: Fintech, Bigtech and Banks in India and Africa.-Chapter 8: Fintech and its impact on the real economy, lessons from the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan
Part II: BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY AND CYBER RISK
Chapter 9: Alternative Data in FinTech and Business Intelligence
Chapter 10: Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies - mechanisms, governance, and applications
Chapter 11: Blockchain and Structured Products
Chapter 12: Categories and Functions of Crypto-Tokens
Chapter 13: Emerging prudential approaches to enhance banks' cyber resilience
Chapter14: Platform Development in Blockchain, Risks and Regulation
Chapter 15: Blockchain and Cyber Risk:  Identifying areas of cyber risk and a risk-based approach for Executives
Part III: BLOCKCHAIN IN FINANCIAL SERVICES
Chapter 16: Fintech and Financial Intermediation
Chapter 17: Financial Disintermediation: The Case of Peer to Peer Lending
Chapter 18:Fintech and Blockchain based Innovation, from Disruption to post-Pandemic Scenario
Chapter 19: Digital Currencies and Payment Systems, Chinese way into Internationalisation of Renminbi
Chapter 20: Cryptocurrencies and other Digital Asset Investments
Chapter 21: How does digital transformation improve Customer Experience?
Chapter 22: Fintech and Blockchain based Innovation, from Disruption to post-Pandemic Scenario.