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1) Financially forward: how to use today's digital tools to earn more, save better, and spend smarter
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"Chief digital officer at Northwestern Mutual, founder/CEO of LearnVest, and New York Times bestelling author shows how to use the simple tools of the digital age to get more out of our money. We live in a new financial world. Our wallets--like every other aspect of our lives--have gone fully digital. From mobile pay to on-demand everything to cryptocurrencies, technology is rewriting the rules for how we earn, save, spend and invest. Technology has...
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Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
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©2015.
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English
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"Six years after the financial crisis, bankers and other Wall Street types remain villains in the public mind. The standard critique says that they wrecked the economy and destroyed people's savings, and never adequately paid for their crimes. But as Economist editor Andrew Palmer reveals in Smart Money, this detested industry is not only capable of doing great good for society, but offers the most powerful means we have for solving some of our most...
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John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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The Regulatory Technology Handbook The transformational potential of RegTech has been confirmed in recent years with US$1.2 billion invested in start-ups (2017) and an expected additional spending of US$100 billion by 2020. Regulatory technology will not only provide efficiency gains for compliance and reporting functions, it will radically change market structure and supervision. This book, the first of its kind, is providing a comprehensive and...
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MIT Sloan Management Review
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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In this installment of MIT Sloan Management Review's Leading With Impact series, CEO Rich Kesrchner and chief operating officer Yvonne Wang discuss DirectBooks' approach to innovation with coach and consultant Chris Clearfield. They also talk about the impetus for establishing a communications platform for underwriters and institutional investors, prioritizing ongoing workflow refinements, and their approach to managing multiple stakeholders.
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The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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How the blockchain-a system built on foundations of mutual mistrust-can become trustworthy. The blockchain entered the world on January 3, 2009, introducing an innovative new trust architecture: an environment in which users trust a system-for example, a shared ledger of information-without necessarily trusting any of its components. The cryptocurrency Bitcoin is the most famous implementation of the blockchain, but hundreds of other companies have...
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PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"The future of finance - the way Wall Street operates and how individuals manage their money - is on the verge of upheaval. And the force underlying the change comes from China, where finance and technology are being merged into a system with consequences that resonate far beyond China's border. The changes of this global revolution in finance and technology - fintech - will be as powerful as those wrought in social media, retailing and advertising...
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CRC Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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The book focuses on smart computing for crowdfunding usage, looking at the crowdfunding landscape, e.g., reward-, donation-, equity-, P2P-based and the crowdfunding ecosystem, e.g., regulator, asker, backer, investor, and operator. The increased complexity of fund raising scenario, driven by the broad economic environment as well as the need for using alternative funding sources, has sparked research in smart computing techniques. Covering a wide...
12) Real-time risk: what investors should know about fintech, high-frequency trading, and flash crashes
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
©2017.
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English
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2022.
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English
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"From the New York Times bestselling author comes the astonishingly frank and intimate story of success and failure inside Silicon Valley's dominant venture capital firms-and how their strategies and fates have shaped the path of innovation, and the global economy, writ large"--
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Wiley
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Over the last century, wars, depressions, political ambition, regulatory mistakes, greed and geopolitical competition have entirely transformed the Monetary System of the United States -- they have transformed the very nature of Money itself. The Money Revolution highlights that the new economic environment we find ourselves in today presents us with previously unimaginable opportunities to grow and prosper, and persuades the American public and...
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Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Since the late twentieth century, banks and insurance companies have grown rapidly and consolidated so that financial markets are dominated by fewer and bigger players. Marion Laboure and Nicolas Deffrennes argue that this trend has made access to financial services, especially high-quality financial services, harder for people with low and middle incomes in developed countries, exacerbating inequality. In developing countries, meanwhile, access...
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