Before Babylon Beyond Bitcoin
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Before Babylon Beyond Bitcoin
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Author : David Birch
language : en
Publisher: London Publishing Partnership
Release Date : 2017-06-15
Before Babylon Beyond Bitcoin written by David Birch and has been published by London Publishing Partnership this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-15 with Business & Economics categories.
Technology is changing money: it has been transformed from physical objects to intangible information. With the arrival of smart cards, mobile phones and Bitcoin it has become easier than ever to create new forms of money. Crucially, money is also inextricably connected with our identities. Your card or phone is a security device that can identify you – and link information about you to your money. To see where these developments might be taking us, David Birch looks back over the history of money, spanning thousands of years. He sees in the past, both recent and ancient, evidence for several possible futures. Looking further back to a world before cash and central banks, there were multiple ‘currencies’ operating at the level of communities, and the use of barter for transactions. Perhaps technology will take us back to the future, a future that began back in 1971, when money became a claim backed by reputation rather than by physical commodities of any kind. Since then, money has been bits. The author shows that these phenomena are not only possible in the future, but already upon us. We may well want to make transactions in Tesco points, Air Miles, Manchester United pounds, Microsoft dollars, Islamic e-gold or Cornish e-tin. The use of cash is already in decline, and is certain to vanish from polite society. The newest technologies will take money back to its origins: a substitute for memory, a record of mutual debt obligations within multiple overlapping communities. This time though, money will be smart. It will be money that reflects the values of the communities that produced it. Future money will know where it has been, who has been using it and what they have been using it for.
The Currency Cold War Cash And Cryptography Hash Rates And Hegemony
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Author : David Birch
language : en
Publisher: London Publishing Partnership
Release Date : 2020-05-27
The Currency Cold War Cash And Cryptography Hash Rates And Hegemony written by David Birch and has been published by London Publishing Partnership this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-27 with Business & Economics categories.
Money is changing and this may mean a new world order. David Birch sets out the economic and technological imperatives concerning digital money, and discusses its potential impact. Tensions will inevitably arise: between old and new, between public and private, and, most importantly, between East and West. This book contributes to the debate that we must have to shape the International Monetary and Financial System of the near future.
A New Ethos In Banking
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Author : Rik Coeckelbergs
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2025-02-20
A New Ethos In Banking written by Rik Coeckelbergs and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-02-20 with Business & Economics categories.
The financial services industry has one constant lately - change. What are the lessons of the past 25 years, and what can be done better in the future, especially when it comes to digital transformation and sustainability? This book investigates how change is impacting banking and the industry’s reputation, exploring what a new ethos in banking should look like, and, more importantly, the needed contributions from the industry to the road ahead. Based on interviews with industry leaders and the author's own personal experience, this book guides decision-makers in a new direction, a positive alternative to the status quo. The book is an urgent call to action, with practical and relevant insights to improve a bank’s societal footprint beyond the required compliance and regulatory efforts into sustainability, transparency, and ethics in banking. It will inspire those that look for successful stakeholder models without ignoring shareholder interests, putting people and society first, and understanding this can only work with a healthy financial model.
Digital Transformation At Scale
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Author : Andrew Greenway
language : en
Publisher: London School of Economics and Political Science
Release Date : 2018
Digital Transformation At Scale written by Andrew Greenway and has been published by London School of Economics and Political Science this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Internet in public administration categories.
"Organisations that grew up on the web have changed our attitude to the services we rely on every day. We expect them to work, be simple, cheap or free. They have done this by perfecting new technologies, practices, cultures and business models. However, organizations founded before the Internet aren't keeping pace - despite spending millions on IT. Faced with the digital revolution, many people working in large organisations instinctively see its consequences as another layer of complexity. To some of them, `digital' promises a better fax machine, a quicker horse, a brighter candle. In fact, digital is about applying the culture, practices, business models and technologies of the Internet era to respond to people's raised expectations. It is not a new function. It is not even a new way of running the existing functions of an organisation, whether those are IT or communications. It is a new way of running organisations. A successful digital transformation makes it possible not only to deliver products and services that are simpler, cheaper and better, but for the organisation as a whole to operate effectively in the online era. This book is a guide to building a digital institution. Based on experience and not theory it explains how a growing band of reformers in businesses and governments around the world have helped their organisations pivot to this new way of working, and what lessons others can learn from their experience. It is based on the authors' experience designing and helping to deliver the UK government's successful `Government Digital Service'. The GDS was a new institution made responsible for the digital transformation of government, designing public services for the Internet era. It snipped GBP4 billion off the government's technology bill, opened up public sector contracts to thousands of new suppliers, and delivered online services so good that citizens chose to use them over the offline alternatives, without a big marketing campaign. Other countries, and private sector companies too, took note. Here is a simple map to navigate a path through the blockers, buzzwords and bloody-mindedness that doom analogue organisations."--Publisher's description.
The Weaponization Of Trade
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Author : Rebecca Harding
language : en
Publisher: London Publishing Partnership
Release Date : 2017-10-25
The Weaponization Of Trade written by Rebecca Harding and has been published by London Publishing Partnership this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-25 with Political Science categories.
Trade is being weaponized – and this is not good. As politicians on both sides of the Atlantic raise the stakes, trade is increasingly a tool of coercion to achieve strategic influence. This book looks at the risks for us all as trade becomes an instrument of foreign policy, and it shows how politicians could turn things around.
Beyond Payments
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Author : Neira Jones
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2025-03-18
Beyond Payments written by Neira Jones and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-03-18 with Business & Economics categories.
This is a book about payments, and how they are evolving, from centralised to decentralised and everything in between, and the new opportunities they present. In the world of payments, we are experiencing an inexorable move towards decentralisation, standardisation, and automation. New business models have emerged, existing ones have evolved, and some have disappeared, whilst regulation struggles to keep pace. As the puzzle becomes more complex, each player not only needs to understand where they fit in, but how they can remain relevant in a fast-evolving and extremely competitive industry. This book takes the reader through the fundamentals of the various decentralised payment ecosystems. From blockchain to smart contracts and DeFi, jargon is debunked, and myths are busted. For each concept, a simple framework is used, enabling comparison: mechanics, economics, risks, and the future outlook. It gives the reader a unique classification framework of virtual assets and explains the regulatory landscape. Drawing on real-life examples, the book weaves together the underpinning principles, legislation, and key stakeholders. As a follow up to Understanding Payments, it is a must-have reference book for the evolution of payments. It provides practical applications, offers insights into the key disciplines, and equips anyone in the payments industry with an understanding of the key issues and opportunities.
Value Beyond Money
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Author : Diana Finch
language : en
Publisher: Arkbound
Release Date : 2024-08-01
Value Beyond Money written by Diana Finch and has been published by Arkbound this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-01 with Business & Economics categories.
Back in 2009, a group of people came together to try to create a currency that would change the economic system for the better. They called it the Bristol Pound. By 2015 it was one of the world’s most prominent local currencies, featured in the Financial Times and Time Magazine, and even covered by Chinese state television. However, the Bristol Pound stopped circulating in 2021, and in 2023 the organisation finally wound up. Drawing on the lessons learned as Bristol Pound’s managing director, the author examines the theory and practice behind many new economic ideas. What really is ‘money’? Can we imagine an economic system that prioritises non-financial value? Can we create a post-market economy? The author’s conclusions shape a new narrative and understanding that will forever change how you think of money and the economy.
Digital Identity Management
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Author : David G. W. Birch
language : en
Publisher: Gower Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2007
Digital Identity Management written by David G. W. Birch and has been published by Gower Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Business & Economics categories.
The goals of this book are to examine the functional components that take basic identity systems and turn them into identity management operations and to highlight some of the implications of those operations for identity management schemes.
China Trade And Power
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Author : Stewart Paterson
language : en
Publisher: London School of Economics and Political Science
Release Date : 2018-10-18
China Trade And Power written by Stewart Paterson and has been published by London School of Economics and Political Science this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-18 with China categories.
From a Western point of view, the policy of economic engagement with China has failed. A rapid rise in living standards in China has helped legitimize and strengthen the Chinese Communist Party's power. How did Western, market-orientated, property-owning, liberal democracies go from being in a position of complete global hegemony in the early 1990s to the current crisis of confidence and loss of moral foundation? This book tells the story of the most successful trading nation of the early twenty-first century. It looks at how the Communist Party of China has retained and cemented its monopoly on political power since China's accession to the World Trade Organization in December 2001. It is the most extraordinary economic success story of our time and it has reshaped the geopolitics not just of Asia but of the world. As China has come to dominate global manufacturing, its economic power has been translated into political power, and the West now has a global rival that is politically antithetical to liberal values. The supply-side deflation from allowing 750 million low-cost workers into the global trading system combined with the policy of inflation targeting by Western central banks has led to falling real incomes for many in the West and rising asset prices that have benefited the few. Worse still, China's mercantilist model is now held up as a viable economic alternative. To have a fighting chance of protecting the freedoms of liberal democracies, it is of the utmost importance that we understand how the policy of indulgent engagement with China has affected Western society in recent years. Only then can the global trading system be reoriented for the mutual benefit of all nations.
The Pay Off
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Author : Gottfried Leibbrandt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
The Pay Off written by Gottfried Leibbrandt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Cryptocurrencies categories.