Blockchain Babel : the crypto-craze and the challenge to business /: the crypto-craze and the challenge to business. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Igor Pejic.
• Authors: Pejic, Igor
• Contents: <ul style='padding-top:0;padding-left:0;list-style:none;'>Section - ONE: Blockchain, Bitcoin, and Distributed Ledgers – Disentangeling the Hype; <ul style='padding-top:0;list-style:none;'>Chapter - 01: Welcome to the Crypto-Currency Craze; Chapter - 02: Why Stop with Banking? The Dream of Blockchain 2.0; Chapter - 03: In Computer Code We Trust; Chapter - 04: How it Works – Overcoming the Double-Spent Problem; Chapter - 05: Unlocking the Chain – Too Good to be Secure?; Chapter - 06: The Second Shot at Electronic Money and Why This Time It Might Actually Work; Chapter - 07: Disrupting the Disruptor: How the Blockchain Itself Might Become Obsolete; Chapter - 08: Still Not a New Internet; Section - TWO: A Libertarian Fantasy in the Most Regulated of Industries; <ul style='padding-top:0;list-style:none;'>Chapter - 09: A Political Battle Fought in a Technical Arena; Chapter - 10: From Priests to Payment Directives – the Institutional Imperative of Money; Chapter - 11: Leviathan’s Strong Hand – Why Regulators Might End up Picking the Technology Format; Chapter - 12: Format Wars in Full Swing; Chapter - 13: The Race towards a Killer Application; Section - THREE: The Dreaded Kodak-Moment that Will Never Happen – Why Banking Is Different; <ul style='padding-top:0;list-style:none;'>Chapter - 14: Cutting the Value Chain to Size; Chapter - 15: New Sharks in the Ocean; Chapter - 16: Setting out for New Oceans – a Dangerous Endeavour; Chapter - 17: The Incumbents’ Predicament; Chapter - 18: Ways to Overcome Inertia – the Case of the ATM at Citicorp; Chapter - 19: Lip-Service or Strategic Priority – Are Banks Doing Enough?; Section - FOUR: Data Behemoths Are Coming; <ul style='padding-top:0;list-style:none;'>Chapter - 20: Who Are Those Fintechs That Are Making Banks Quake in Their Boots?; Chapter - 21: Data Behemoths – the Real Challengers That Have Managed to Slip from the Radar; Chapter - 22: Payments as the First Frontline and Why Mobile Wallets Are a Game Changer; Chapter - 23: To Survive Banks Should Avoid the Music Industry’s Mistakes…And Their Own; Section - FIVE: Hunting for the New Competitive Advantage; <ul style='padding-top:0;list-style:none;'>Chapter - 24: The Power of Firm Resources; Chapter - 25: Banks’ Underestimated Core Competencies; Chapter - 26: The Banking License; Chapter - 27: Legacy Customers and Brick and Mortar Bastions; Chapter - 28: Brand Potency; Chapter - 29: Operational Excellence and Financial Resources; Chapter - 30: Customer Intimacy; Chapter - 31: Technological Infrastructure; Chapter - 32: Price Wars and How Banks Should React to Them; Section - SIX: Business Model Evolution – The Arrival of the IT-Paradigm; <ul style='padding-top:0;list-style:none;'>Chapter - 33: Why the Security-Argument Is a Farce; Chapter - 34: Market Rules of the IT-Paradigm; Chapter - 35: From Fees to Flat Rates; Chapter - 36: Banks as Assemblers of Financial Tools; Chapter - 37: Transcending the Financial; Chapter - 38: The Business Model “Free”; Chapter - 39: Monetizing Data; Chapter - 40: Freemium – Why Free Must not Be Free; Chapter - 41: Complementors – the Gold Outside the Pot; Chapter - 42: Globalized Competition in a World of Branding; Section - SEVEN: An Unparalleled Promise…For Some; <ul style='padding-top:0;list-style:none;'>Chapter - 43: Unleashing the Free Market by Unbinding Capital; Chapter - 44: The Largest Market Expansion in History – Onboarding the Two Billion Unbanked; Chapter - 45: The Threat of Banking Deserts and Local Divides; Chapter - 46: Rays of Hope; Chapter - 47: Conclusion
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : KoganPage
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 332.1702854678; Internet banking; Money -- Technological innovations; Blockchains (Databases); Bitcoin
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780749484170
• Related ISBNs: 9780749497989; 9780749484163
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