Cryptomarkets

a research companion

Since the launch of the infamous Silk Road, the use of cryptomarkets - illicit markets for drugs on the dark web - has expanded rapidly around the world. Cryptomarkets: A Research Companion is an accessible, detailed guidebook which offers all the tools necessary to begin researching cryptomarket ...

Fiscalidad de las criptomonedas

Las criptomonedas, en sus diversas variantes, es un fenómeno financiero que, gracias a los últimos avances tecnológicos y de la criptografía, pretende ofrecer una respuesta a la crisis económica y bancaria de los años 2007 y siguientes. En apenas una década, las criptomonedas se han ...

Adiós a los bancos

La gran crisis de 2008 puso de manifiesto la debilidad del dinero usado en los países desarrollados. Millones de trabajadores arrojados al paro y millones de euros dedicados a salvar los bancos son algunos de los daños gigantescos que causan las crisis bancarias. El diagnóstico ...

Central Banking before 1800

a rehabilitation

Although central banking is today often presented as having emerged in the nineteenth or even twentieth century, it has a long and colourful history before 1800, from which important lessons for today's debates can be drawn. While the core of central banking is the ...

The financial services guide to fintech

driving banking innovation through effective partnerships

Fintech has emerged as one of the fastest growing sectors in the financial services industry and has radically disrupted traditional banking. However, it has become clear that for both to thrive, the culture between fintech and incumbent firms must change from one of competition to ...

Banca digital y "Fintech"

aspectos prácticos de protección de los derechos de los usuarios

La innovación digital es, junto con las Finanzas Sostenibles, la tendencia que va a transformar el paradigma político, social y económico que ha prevalecido durante las últimas décadas. En el ámbito de los servicios financieros, por primera vez, estos están comenzando a ser pres­tados ...

Lords of finance

1929, the Great Depression, and the bankers who broke the world

This has happened before. The current financial crisis has only one parallel: the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and subsequent Great Depression of the 1930s, which crippled the future of an entire generation and set the stage for the horrors of the Second World War ...

Culture, conduct and ethics in banking

principles and practice

Endorsed by the Chartered Banker Institute as core reading for its professional qualifications, Culture, Conduct and Ethics in Banking emphasises the importance of professionalism for banks, and explores how all staff play a key role in putting customers at the heart of their business. Taking ...

Mundo jurídico de las criptomonedas

La presente obra representa un innovador y valioso estudio del complejo mundo de las criptomonedas, en tanto enfrenta el dilema de su coexistencia con el Derecho. La curiosa pasividad que se ha registrado en el mundo jurídico respecto del tema, refuerza la importancia del análisis ...

Criptomonedas

qué son, cómo utilizarlas y por qué van a cambiar el mundo

Los peligros que entraña un sistema monetario centralizado ya son imposibles de ocultar. Los bancos crean cada vez más dinero, lo cual genera una deuda creciente para poder mantener el flujo normal de la economía. Los países, a su vez, reciben dinero de los bancos ...

Basel accords, bank capital and portfolio risk behavior

With the endorsement of the Basel III contracts on the supervision of the banking industry, management of capital buffers throughout the business cycle have attained crucial importance for the reinforcement of financial stability in the banking system. This book departs from previous studies through its ...

EU trading venues

competition, the financial crisis and MiFID II

The MiFID II regime is perhaps the most comprehensive single regulatory regime concerning the financial markets to come out of EU to date. This book - which is a slightly revised version of the authors 2015 PhD thesis - provides an overview of the MiFID II regime ...

Guía para no colaborar con la financiación de las armas

La banca armada, más de 450 entidades financieras de 35 países de todo el mundo, han financiado con 821.659 millones de dólares en el período 2013-18 a 36 empresas de armas, conformando la banca armada internacional. En esta publicación puedes acceder a información específica ...

Unelected power

the quest for legitimacy in central banking and the regulatory State

How central banks and independent regulators can support rather than challenge constitutional democracy Unelected Power lays out the principles needed to ensure that central bankers and other independent regulators act as stewards of the common good. Blending economics, political theory, and public law, this critically ...

Cryptoassets

legal, regulatory, and monetary perspectives

Cryptoassets represent one of the most high profile financial products in the world, and fastest growing financial products in history. From Bitcoin, Etherium and Ripple's XRP-so called "utility tokens" used to access financial services-to initial coin offerings that in 2017 rivalled venture capital in ...

La nueva economía blockchain y criptomonedas en 100 preguntas

Todas las claves fundamentales de la tecnología y economía blockchain: Criptografía, cypherpunks y Satoshi Nakamoto. Taxonomía de los criptoactivos. Modelos de negocio de las criptomonedas. Fundamentos tecnológicos de blockchain. Impacto de blockchain en diversos sectores económicos. Las nuevas B-Finanzas y su regulación. Cómo invertir con ...

Commercializing Blockchain

strategic applications in the real world

Blockchain has grown at an enormous rate in a very short period of time. In a business context, blockchain can level the playing field between small and large organisations in several ways: exact copies of the immutable, time-stamped data is held by all parties, all ...

Money without boundaries

how Blockchain will facilitate the denationalization of money

Largely inspired by 'The Denationalization of Money' by Fredrich Hayek, 'Money Without Boundaries'' ideological foundation is also inspired by economists and thought leaders like Milton Friedman and Irving Fisher, advancements in capital markets over the past 50 years, and the convergence of old and new ...

Globalizing capital

a history of the international monetary system

Essential reading for understanding the international economy-now thoroughly updated Lucid, accessible, and provocative, and now thoroughly updated to cover recent events that have shaken the global economy, Globalizing Capital is an indispensable account of the past 150 years of international monetary and financial history-from the ...

Taking the floor

models, morals, and management in a Wall Street trading room

Debates about financial reform have led to the recognition that a healthy financial system doesn't depend solely on how it is structured-organizational culture matters as well. Based on extensive research in a Wall Street derivatives-trading room, Taking the Floor considers how the culture of ...