Table of Contents

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.- Banking Beyond Banks Chapter: Diana Biggs.- 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.- Banking Beyond Banks & Money.- Blockchain 2.0 and Beyond: Adhocracies.

Reviews

“Banking beyond banks and money is a compendium of in-depth articles detailing the individual authors’ make-up of 21st century financial institutions. … The book is definitely meant for a niche audience: those whose whole careers depend on innovations in the banking and financing world.” (James Van Speybroeck, Computing Reviews, January, 2017)