Banking Beyond Banks and Money: A Guide to Banking Services in the Twenty-First Century

Editors: Paolo Tasca, Tomaso Aste, Loriana Pelizzon, Nicolas Perony



A reference for academics and graduate students in the fields of peer-to-peer finance, digital currencies, crowdfunding

Offers a multidisciplinary approach where experts of different disciplines give their own perspectives on the argument

Sets the foundations for a new interdisciplinary research area

Do you know how banking and money will look like in the new digital age?

This book collects the voices of leading scholars, entrepreneurs, policy makers and consultants who, through their expertise and keen analytical skills, are best positioned to picture from various angles the ongoing technological revolution in banking and finance.

You will learn how lending and borrowing can exist without banks; how new forms of money can compete to better serve different society needs; how new technologies are banking the unbanked communities in the poorest parts of the world, and how ideas and small projects can be financed by the crowds without the need to rely upon banks. You will learn how, in the new digital age, we will interact with new self-organised and autonomous companies that operate without any human involvement, based on a set of programmed and incorruptible rules. You will learn that new business models will emerge thanks to technology-enabled platforms, upon which one can build new forms of non-hierarchical cooperation between strangers. And you will also learn that new forms of risks and threats are emerging that will destabilise our systems and jeopardise the stability of our financial order.

Table of contents (15 chapters)

Introduction

Classification of Crowdfunding in the Financial System

Crowdfunding and Bank Stress

How Peer to Peer Lending and Crowdfunding Drive the FinTech Revolution in the UK

FinTech in China: From Shadow Banking to P2P Lending

Features or Bugs: The Seven Sins of Current Bitcoin

Decentralized Banking: Monetary Technocracy in the Digital Age

Trustless Computing—The What Not the How

Reinventing Money and Lending for the Digital Age

How Non-banks are Boosting Financial Inclusion and Remittance

Scalability and Egalitarianism in Peer-to-Peer Networks

Are Transaction Costs Drivers of Financial Institutions? Contracts Made in Heaven, Hell, and the Cloud in Between

Understanding Modern Banking Ledgers Through Blockchain Technologies: Future of Transaction Processing and Smart Contracts on the Internet of Money

Blockchains and the Boundaries of Self-Organized Economies: Predictions for the Future of Banking

Blockchain 2.0 and Beyond: Adhocracies