I. Introduction and Context
Introduction
Fintech and Its Historical Perspective
II. Fintech & Blockchain: International Overview
Financial Engineering and ICT in the Past
Fintech and Blockchain: Contemporary Issues, New Paradigms, and Disruption
The Challenges and Competitiveness of Fintech Companies in Europe, UK and USA: An Overview
Fintech Unicorns
Fintech, Big tech and Banks in India and Africa
Fintech and the Real Economy: Lessons from the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan (MENAP) Region
III. Blockchain Technology and Cyber Risk
Alternative Data in FinTech and Business Intelligence
Bitcoin and Other Blockchain Technologies: Mechanisms, Governance, and Applications
Blockchain and Structured Products
Categories and Functions of Crypto-Tokens
Emerging Prudential Approaches to Enhance Banks’ Cyber Resilience
Platform Development in Blockchains, Risks, and Regulation
Blockchain and Cyber Risk: Identifying Areas of Cyber Risk and a Risk-Based Approach for Executives
IV. Blockchain in Financial Services
FinTech and Financial Intermediation
Financial Disintermediation: The Case of Peer-to-Peer Lending
Fintech and Blockchain Based Innovation: Technology Driven Business Models and Disruption
Digital Currencies and Payment Systems: Chinese Way into Internationalisation of the Renminbi
Cryptocurrencies and Other Digital Asset Investments
How Does Digital Transformation Improve Customer Experience?
V. Fintech in the New Order
From Disruption to Post-pandemic Scenario

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.