The Palgrave Handbook of FinTech and Blockchain

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.- Chapter 14: 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.