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Title
Financial services in the Twenty-first century : the present system and future developments in fintech and financial innovation / John JA Burke.
ISBN
9783030639679 (electronic bk.)
3030639673 (electronic bk.)
3030639665
9783030639662
Imprint
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-030-63967-9 doi
Call Number
HG173
Dewey Decimal Classification
332.1
Summary
This textbook covers financial systems and services, particularly focusing on the present system and future developments. Broken into four parts, it briefly covers the history of financial markets to present day, discusses the future of financial markets, and ends with an overview of the law and regulatory components of this progressive system. The book incorporates extremely recent advances such as FinTech, blockchain, and artificial intelligence as applied to financial institutions and markets, and discusses trends likely to reshape the global financial system in the 21st century, including the rise of emerging countries (BRICS), the shift of economic power from the United States to Asia, and the likely new world financial order. It also explores these themes while discussing central banks and monetary policy, interest rates, inflation/deflation, financial markets and instruments, exchange rates, and FOREX. Lastly, it discusses the legal and regulatory framework of these advancements. Combining rigorous detail alongside exercises and PowerPoint slides for each chapter, this textbook helps finance students understand the wide breadth of financial systems and speculates the forthcoming developments in the industry.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Essential History and Fundamental Purposes
Chapter 3: The Financial System
Chapter 4: Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 5: The Conventional Narrative: Deconstructed
Chapter 6: Commercial Banks Create Money Out of Nothing
Chapter 7: Money
Chapter 8: The Genesis Files
Chapter 9: Cryptography
Chapter 10: FinTech
Chapter 11: Distributed Ledger Technology
Chapter 12: Artificial Intelligence
Chapter 13. BRICS
Chapter 14: Modern Monetary Policy
Chapter 15: Impact of FinTech: A Prediction
Chapter 16. Conclusion.
