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Lopes J: CRYPTO

CRYPTO

Blockchain, DeFi, Stablecoins, Tokenization, Artificial Intelligence, and the New Financial Infrastructure

From the author of&nbsp;A People's Guide to Capitalism, a clear-eyed look at the world of cryptocurrencies, cutting through the glitz and the scams to reveal how crypto mirrors and exacerbates the crises of capitalism 
 
Cryptocurrencies have gone from being fringe investments relevant only to hardcore adherents to a multi-trillion industry with a direct line to Donald Trump's White House. The promises of crypto are wide-ranging, preying on a basic reality: people are alienated by an economic system that has excluded them and wonder if cryptocurrencies can offer a more transparent and inclusive alternative. 
 
Enter&nbsp;Crypto-Capitalism, Hadas Thier's deft, accessible examination of the rise and fall and rise again of crypto. Drawing on years of reporting on the industry, its insiders, and the ordinary people impacted by its wild peaks and busts, Thier explains how cryptocurrencies work, elucidates the context and implications of their rise, and debunks the utopian mythology that animates their boosters. 
 
By showing that systemic exploitation and domination are inherent in a crisis-ridden capitalist economy and are matters of class power, not technology, Thier convincingly cuts through the froth and the lies of financial dystopia. Along the way, she exposes the dangerous consequences of crypto's rise and offers alternative avenues for imagining what economic democracy could actually be.

The New Financial Dystopia

Crypto-Capitalism

DK How Stuff Works

Investing isn't just for the rich. It's for everyone who wants to grow their money - in a smart and sustainable way.From compound interest to index funds, How Investing Works demystifies the complex world of investing with clear, visually-led explanations. Using the series' signature mix of infographics, charts, and easy-to-follow diagrams, this book turns financial theory into practical knowledge.Whether you are saving for your first home, investing for retirement, or simply trying to make your money work harder, this guide shows how to build a strong foundation, avoid common mistakes, and stay on track through life's ups and downs. Discover how markets function, what terms like "diversification" and "risk tolerance" really mean, and why long-term thinking always beats chasing quick wins. With sections on behavioural psychology, ethical investing, cryptocurrency, and global strategies, How Investing Works equips you with the tools to grow your wealth and invest with confidence.

The Concepts Visually Explained

How Investing Works

Palgrave Studies in Financial Services Technology

This book explores how FinTech and crypto-asset ecosystems are transforming financial and organizational processes while creating new challenges for internal control, risk management, and reporting. The volume is structured into three parts. The first introduces digital finance and tokenized economies, examining how token design influences governance structures, control systems, and risk exposure. It also develops an Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework tailored to blockchain-based organizations. The second part addresses the administrative, accounting, and compliance dimensions of crypto assets, covering regulatory classification, the MiCA framework, the roles of issuers and service providers, custody arrangements, and the crypto-asset life cycle. It further discusses recognition, measurement, valuation, and disclosure issues under IFRS, US GAAP, and emerging accounting approaches. The third part applies the proposed ERM framework to four case studies, illustrating how rapid growth and technological innovation can coexist with weaknesses in governance, controls, and reporting. The analysis highlights the importance of integrating blockchain records with legal, accounting, and organizational evidence to support sustainable value creation. Combining conceptual foundations with real-world applications, the book provides a valuable reference for academics, practitioners, and students interested in FinTech, blockchain, and crypto assets.Giovanni Scirè
 is Assistant Professor in Business Management at the Department of Political Sciences and International Relations (DEMS), University of Palermo. His research focuses on organized crime, sustainability, and digital innovation. Drawing on performance management and System Dynamics approaches, he investigates sustainable business models and the implications of technological change. His recent work examines crypto assets from accounting, risk management, internal control, and regulatory perspectives.
 Enzo Bivona
 is Associate Professor of Business Management at the Department of Political Sciences and International Relations (DEMS), University of Palermo, where he serves as Vice-Dean and Vice-Director of the University Technology Transfer Centre (UT2C). His research focuses on performance management, internal control systems, risk management, and organized crime. Integrating system dynamics with strategic management, he investigates business model innovation and sustainable value creation, with particular attention to SMEs, entrepreneurial development, and organizational resilience.

An Internal Control System and Risk Management Perspective in the Digital Economy

FinTech and Crypto Assets

Yale Program on Financial Stability Series

A critical examination of the Federal Reserve-told by the policymakers, economists, and observers who know it bestThe Federal Reserve is one of the most powerful institutions in the world-and one of the least understood. Drawing on twenty-one interviews with former governors, reserve bank presidents, staff economists, lawmakers, journalists, scholars, international central bankers, and investors, Fed Reckoning explores how the institution has navigated the defining upheavals of the modern era: the global financial crisis, the pandemic shock, the post-2021 inflation surge, and the banking turmoil of 2023. It traces the modern Federal Reserve from Volcker to Powell, examining its evolving approach to the dual mandate, financial stability, regulation and supervision, and communication.Just as importantly, these interviews reveal the people behind the institution: their judgments, disagreements, frustrations, and sense of mission. The result is a candid, deeply informed portrait of the Federal Reserve at a moment when its power is immense, its independence is under pressure, and its future path is far from certain-and essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how it makes and defends its decisions.

Conversations on America’s Central Bank

Fed Reckoning

Equips legal professionals and stakeholders with a clear, authoritative, and practical guide to the UK legal treatment of digital payments and tokenised assets. The Law of Digital Payments is a guide to UK payments law, examining how English law and financial regulation are adapting to new forms of money and new ways of moving it. Value now passes between banks, payment service providers and distributed ledgers, and AI agents are beginning to initiate payments. For lawyers and compliance professionals, this raises fundamental questions about when a debt is discharged, who bears the loss when a payment goes wrong, and which activities fall within the regulatory perimeter. This title sets out the legal concepts of payment and money before mapping the regulatory perimeter under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, the Regulated Activities Order 2001, the Payment Services Regulations 2017 and the Electronic Money Regulations 2011. Later chapters provide clarity on funds transfers and settlement, card payments, open banking and payment initiation, digital wallets, strong customer authentication, unauthorised transactions and the recovery of misdirected payments, including authorised push payment (APP) fraud. Coverage of tokenised payment includes the classification of cryptoassets and their status as property. The new UK regimes for stablecoins and tokenised deposits are considered alongside the proposed digital pound. The final chapters address the protection of customer funds when a payment or e-money institution becomes insolvent. They also examine the legal questions raised by agentic payments, in which an AI agent makes payments on a user's behalf. Drawing upon legislation, FCA rules and guidance, case law and current reform proposals, the book is designed to help practitioners, in-house counsel, regulators, payment firms and academics understand and apply the law of digital payments. This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Banking and Finance Law online service.

The Law of Digital Payments

TechTide

The Future of Global Governance?

Digital Currencies and Blockchain Technology in International Politics

Materialising the Digital

Where and how we pay is changing dramatically. This timely, innovative book navigates the so-called 'Cambrian explosion' of FinTech companies and more specifically to the emergence of Blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies through the lens of the case of Ripple, a company in the field of cryptoassets and cross-border payments. Combining STS with human geography and political economy, it navigates the maelstrom of proliferating new and old payment infrastructure, to develop a theoretical and empirical 'infrastructural inversion' of money. Money does not just flow through or behave like an infrastructure, but rather it is an infrastructure, because it is predicated upon the existence of accounting and payment infrastructures of memory for its very existence. Using the concepts of active forms and dispositions from design and architecture, this nuanced book analyses how money's infrastructures act in the world materially, spatially, as objects and subjects of desire and as political and economic machines. If we want new forms of money for new forms of society, we need to think holistically and ecologically about the complex combinations of materiality, space, desire and political economies that money generates and propagates. Tracing the trajectory of a cryptoasset project from an alternative credit system to an interbank, cross-border company, the book moves beyond a Bitcoin-centric view of money. It reveals how alternative and mainstream, networked and sovereign forms of money have long been intertwined.

An ecology of materiality, space, desires, and power

Money’s infrastructures

'Michael Auerbach has one of the most original minds I've ever encountered . . . This is a dazzling and entertaining book . . . But it is also an urgent warning' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, author of Empire of Pain A brilliant exploration of the phenomenon of prediction markets that asks: what happens when democracy becomes another commodity? Prediction markets are sweeping the world, fundamentally changing the nature of gambling - and the very ways in which we attempt to divine the future. Posed as binary 'Yes/No' questions about future events, prediction markets allow any difference of opinion - whether on pop culture or politics, wars or assassinations - to be financialised. A regulatory minefield with moral implications that divide nations, governments and bettors, they have proved as effective at accurately predicting the timing of missile strikes as they have at calling the outcomes of elections.But are these markets really a new phenomenon? And what does it mean when those tasked with safeguarding democracy hold financial stakes in its volatility?From Renaissance Rome, where merchants wagered on papal conclaves, through nineteenth-century London's wartime coffee house gossip, to the Pentagon's ill-fated terrorism futures exchange and blockchain-based betting on Polymarket today, The Big Bet tells the gripping five-hundred-year story of a permissive regime that no one designed and no one voted for.Drawing on deep expertise, Michael Auerbach examines how these markets are changing our world, and what they mean for the future where democracy becomes just another commodity to be priced and traded. Because prediction markets are not an anomaly - they are the logical endpoint of a society that has applied market capitalism to every aspect of life. And in a world where everything is a wager and nothing is off limits, knowing where the chips will fall matters more than ever.

Prediction Markets and the Future of Democracy

The Big Bet

Dieses Buch blickt auf die Entwicklung der Blockchain-Technologie in den letzten zehn Jahren – von ihrer ersten Konzeption bis zu ihrem aktuellen Status als Katalysator für transformative Veränderungen in zahlreichen Branchen.Renommierte Wissenschaftler und Branchenexperten legen fundierte Analysen und Fallstudien dar und erläutern die Mechanismen, durch die die Blockchain-Technologie Finanzdienstleistungen, Lieferketten und die öffentliche Verwaltung verändert hat. Herausforderungen und Chancen, die sich aus der Übertragung der Blockchain-Technologie von der Theorie in die Praxis ergeben, werden beleuchtet. Sie erhalten tiefe Einblicke in die Feinheiten dezentraler Systeme, inklusive Blick auf das aufstrebende Feld des dezentralen Finanzwesens (DeFi), und zu rechtlichen Aspekten. Mit einem kritischen Blick auf die technologischen und regulatorischen Rahmenbedingungen werden hier nicht nur vergangene Errungenschaften reflektiert, sondern auch strategische Richtungen für die zukünftige Forschung und Entwicklung innerhalb des Blockchain-Ökosystems skizziert.Durch das Zusammenkommen der verschiedensten Perspektiven von Fachleuten – von Forschern und Praktikern bis hin zu politischen Entscheidungsträgern – wird eine sinnvolle Verbindung geschaffen, um Kooperationsinitiativen zu erkunden, die das nächste Jahrzehnt der Blockchain-Innovation prägen könnten.Der Inhalt<ul><li>Tokenisierung und programmierbare Wertsysteme</li><li>Blockchain als gesellschaftliche und technologische Innovation</li><li>Digitalisierung und Zukunft der Justiz</li><li>Programmierbares Geld und neue Finanzinfrastrukturen</li><li>Klimabezogene Rechtsstreitigkeiten und regulatorische Entwicklungen</li><li>NFTs, digitale Vermögenswerte und internationale Rechtsfragen</li><li>Zehn Jahre Blockchain-Innovation im Finanzsektor</li><li>Tokenisierte Besteuerung und digitale Fiskalpolitik</li><li>Künstliche Intelligenz und datengetriebene Fördermittelvergabe in Web3</li><li>Dezentrale KI-Infrastrukturen als öffentliches Gut</li><li>DAO-Governance und Interoperabilität im Metaverse</li><li>Das Internet der Gebäude und datengetriebene Immobilienökosysteme</li></ul>Die HerausgeberinProf. Dr.-Ing. Katarina Krüger
 lehrt seit 2016 Blockchain Use Case Development an der HTW Berlin, organisiert die jährliche Blockchain@HTW Konferenz, um Studenten, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft und Government eine Plattform des Austausch zu geben. Sie ist Founder des Start-ups SimLick U.G. und Advisor einiger Blockchain-basierter Startups. Ferner ist sie Mitglied im europäischen Blockchain-Verband INATBA in der Working Group Education. Im Zuge ihrer Forschungsaktivitäten beschäftigt sie sich in einem internationalen Team mit der Fragestellung, wie moderne Technologien dazu beitragen können, dem Klimawandel durch den Einsatz von u.a. der Blockchain-Technologie den Schub zu geben, die Ziele des Pariser Abkommens einhalten zu können. Insbesondere werden hierbei Token-Modelle auf ihre Einsatzfähigkeit in diesem Zusammenhang überprüft.

Technologische Fortschritte, Herausforderungen und Schnittstellen zu KI und Cybersicherheit

Blockchain-Evolution

A finance insider's perspective on the rising trajectory of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency In Avalanche Ascending: Investing in the Blockchain Built to Win, Anthony Scaramucci of SkyBridge draws on his extensive experience in finance and alternative investments to explore the accelerating momentum behind Bitcoin and cryptocurrency markets. The book examines the forces driving digital asset adoption and provides readers with a clear framework for understanding how cryptocurrencies are fundamentally reshaping the broader financial landscape and investment strategies. Avalanche Ascending offers readers a well-informed perspective on the dynamics of cryptocurrency markets, including the institutional forces accelerating digital asset adoption. Scaramucci applies his background in finance and capital management to analyze current market trends, key regulatory developments, and the structural shifts that continue to influence investor behavior across global cryptocurrency and digital asset markets. Readers will also find: <ul> <li>An analysis of Bitcoin's evolution from niche technology to a recognized asset class within institutional investment portfolios</li> <li>Insight into the regulatory landscape shaping cryptocurrency markets and its implications for investors and financial professionals</li> <li>Discussion of how traditional finance institutions are integrating digital assets into their existing strategies and operations</li> <li>Frameworks for evaluating cryptocurrency opportunities within the context of broader portfolio diversification and risk management</li> <li>Perspectives on the macroeconomic trends and technological innovations driving long-term digital asset growth and adoption</li> </ul> Avalanche Ascending is written for investors, financial professionals, portfolio managers, and anyone seeking a well-informed perspective on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency markets. Whether new to digital assets or experienced in alternative investments, readers gain a practical understanding of this evolving financial sector.

Avalanche Ascending

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Human-Centred Intelligent Finance

AI, Fintech, and the Future of Global Financial Systems

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