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Intro
Disclaimer
Dedication
Introduction
Prologue
1 FINTECH
Electronic Money
Banks
Global Financial Crisis
Disruption & Proliferation
Perfect Storm
2 CAPITAL EVOLUTION
Competition
Strategy
Creative Destruction
Innovation Paradox
Inertia
Elementary Decomposition
Value
Value Proposition
Value Chains
Vertical-Integration
Commoditisation
Evolution of Computing
Communication Technology
Peace, War & Wonder
Ubiquity vs. Certainty
Standardisation
Componentisation
Co-evolution
Abstraction
Higher-order Systems Commodification
3 ECOSYSTEMS
Genesis of an Ecosystem
Technology Ecosystems
API Economy
Microservices
Elastic Cloud Computing
Co-evolution of Practice
Commercial Co-evolution
Smart Device Apps
Vertical to Horizontal
Innovate, Leverage & Commoditise
4 SURFACING UTILITY
Business Model Evolution
Accessing Credit
Evolutionary Flow
Apex Predator Hypothesis
First Principles
Straight-Through Processing
Know Your Customer
Customer Acquisition
Identity Brokers
Know Your Data
Data Privacy
Big Data
Artificial Intelligence Robo-Advisors
Algorithmic Trading
Open Banking
Harvesting Data
Runaway Leadership
5 PAYMENTS
Anatomy of Payment Transactions
Interbank Payment Systems
Banking Business Model
Cross-Border Payments
Balance of Payments
Swap Lines
Card Payments
Alternative Payment Methods
Electronic Money Institutions
Digital Wallets
Disbursement Hubs
Mobile Payments
Push vs. Pull Payments
Payment Convergence & Dominance
6 MONEY
Confidence
Functions of Money
Characteristics of Money
Types of Money
Formats of Money
War on Cash 7 CENTRAL BANKS
Central Banking
The Bank of England
The Fed
The European Central Bank
Forward Guidance
8 ECONOMIC CYCLES
Monetary Policy
Fiscal Policy
Inflation
Deflation
Gross Domestic Product
Recession
Depression
Velocity
Credit & Debt
Deleveraging
The Middle Class
Populism
Unconventional Methods
Deficit Spending
Modern Monetary Theory
Quantitative Destruction
9 GOLD
What is Gold?
Why Gold?
Properties
Measurement
Assurance
Refinement
Gold Producers
Gold Reserves
Gold Specie
Store of Value Gold Standard
Depositories
Exter's Pyramid
10 FINANCIALISATION
Functions of Finance
The Roaring Twenties
The Wall Street Crash of 1929
Glass-Steagall
Bretton Woods
Guns & Butter
Dollar Confidence Crisis
King Dollar
Financial Innovation
Dot Com
Securities
Maturity Transformation
Derivatives
Shadow Banking
Securitisation Chain
Moral Hazard
Information Asymmetry
Adverse Selection
Coup de Grâce
Dodd-Frank
Deregulation
Arsonists & Firefighters
11 HEGEMONIC DOMINANCE
Pre-Hegemony
Hegemonic War
Hegemony

Veteran FinTech specialist and technology executive, Brad Rigden, takes us on an illuminating journey of how technology and innovation have disrupted not only money and our economy, but our societal fabric on a global scale. This evolution is brought into context amidst the backdrop of cyclic patterns, historical events and behavioural forces, leading us to the precipice of financial entropy.



Rigden lifts the veil above the influence and changes that technology is anticipated to bring as the digital century unfolds. This illustrates how technological advancements are being co-opted to serve rogue agendas, thereby surfacing the business strategies and simmering geopolitical forces at play.



Whether your interests pique in FinTech, blockchain and crypto-currencies, artificial intelligence, economics, money or geopolitics, this book will arm you with an enduring and entirely new perspective with which to understand the world around us, and navigate where we go from here.