Big Tech in Finance: How To Prevail In the Age of Blockchain, Digital Currencies and Web3 1st Edition
by Igor Pejic(Author)
Publisher finelybook 出版社: Kogan Page; 1st edition (May 30, 2023)
Language 语言: English
Print Length 页数: 296 pages
ISBN-10: 139860898X
ISBN-13: 9781398608986
Book Description
By finelybook
With Big Tech’s breakthrough into finance with blockchain, it is imperative that finance players understand the ramifications and how they can defend their competitive advantage.
Big Tech in Finance provides a cutting edge look at Big Tech’s play for domination of the crypto economy, its ramifications and how finance is fighting back. The book analyses the motives behind Big Tech’s break into banking and unpicks the strategies behind the use of blockchain, technology interfaces, infrastructure and investments into blockchain unicorns. The book then goes onto review how organizations in finance are countering these threats, with governments and banks driving their own strategies and use of centralized blockchains.
Delving into the fight between Big Tech, Big Banking, start-ups, and regulators, Big Tech in Finance analyzes which actors have the best shot at succeeding. It explores the key tools in play, such as smart contracts, digital central bank currencies, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and the metaverse. The book also divulges the geopolitical dimensions underpinning the power struggle and its implications for the industry. Written by an internationally recognized expert on blockchain, the book draws on in-depth interviews with founders, investors, regulators, bankers and blockchain experts to provide valuable insider insights. This will be an essential read for finance and fintech professionals, bankers and investors and anyone else interested in the developments of fintech.
