Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking
About the Book Series
This series explores the roles of money and banking in the modern world. Banking is an increasingly important and international industry, and its interaction with money is a major concern for the world's economic policy-makers.
Alternative Acquisition Models and Financial Innovation: Special Purpose Acquisition Companies in Europe, and the Italian Legal Framework
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniele D'Alvia, Ettore Maria Lombardi, Yochanan Shachmurove
May 27, 2025
This is the first book written in English on special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) in the context of European and Italian financial law, introducing the topic with a general overview on the European stage. It is also the first book on European financial regulations of SPACs. As such, it is ...
Digital Transformation and the Economics of Banking: Economic, Institutional, and Social Dimensions
1st Edition
Edited
By Piotr Łasak, Jonathan Williams
May 27, 2025
The book provides deep insight into the processes of digital transformation of banking according to economic, institutional, and social dimensions. Together with the transformation of incumbent banks, the processes result in changes in the scope of existing banking services. Moreover, new entities ...
FinTech and Financial Inclusion: Leveraging Digital Finance for Economic Empowerment and Sustainable Growth
1st Edition
Edited
By Vikas Sharma, Munish Gupta, Nilesh Arora, Aijaz A. Shaikh
March 28, 2025
FinTech and Financial Inclusion is a comprehensive edited volume exploring the transformative impact of financial technology on expanding access to financial services and fostering sustainable economic development. This collection brings together insights from leading scholars and practitioners ...
Activist Retail Investors and the Future of Financial Markets: Understanding YOLO Capitalism
1st Edition
Edited
By Usman W. Chohan, Sven Van Kerckhoven
December 19, 2024
Contemporary financial markets have been characterized by sociocultural phenomena such as "meme stocks", the Gamestop short squeeze, and "You Only Live Once (YOLO) trading". These are movements led by small-scale retail investors banding together to participate forcefully in financial markets ...
Banking, Risk and Crises in Europe: From the Global Financial Crisis to COVID-19
1st Edition
By Renata Karkowska, Zbigniew Korzeb, Anna Matysek-Jędrych, Paweł Niedziółka
December 18, 2024
European economies have been plagued by successive crises, from the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) to the COVID-19 pandemic, through to the economic and geopolitical instability in Ukraine. These events, the uncertainty they generate combined with dynamic technological progress and significant ...
COVID-19 and European Banking Performance: Resilience, Recovery and Sustainability
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Wachtel, Ewa Miklaszewska
December 18, 2024
The monograph presents a comprehensive analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on European banking, both at a macro and a micro level. It analyses the impact of the pandemic on bank stability, performance and credit policies, as well as their strategic adjustments to the challenges brought ...
The Cryptocurrency Phenomenon: The Origins, Evolution and Economics of Digital Currencies
1st Edition
By Gianni Nicolini, Silvia Intini
December 18, 2024
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the cryptocurrency phenomenon from a financial/monetary point of view. It offers a unique slant in at least two ways, with the financial perspective as the reference point. An examination of the technicalities surrounding blockchain and the mining of...
Inflation Dynamic: Global Positive Economic Analysis
1st Edition
By Weshah Razzak
November 28, 2024
This book explains inflation dynamic, using time series data from 1960 for 42 countries. These countries are different in every aspect, historically, culturally, socially, politically, institutionally, and economically. They are chosen on the basis of the data availability only and cover the Middle...
Alternative Finance: A Framework for Innovative and Sustainable Business Models
1st Edition
Edited
By Mina Fanea-Ivanovici, Hasnan Baber
November 06, 2024
The alternative financing space has grown exponentially in the last few decades, namely as a consequence of the financial crisis, technological advancement, niche customer segments, and more recently the pandemic. Now, with the inclusion of Fintech, online lenders, crowdfunding, accelerators, ...
Green Finance in the European Union
1st Edition
By Marta Postuła, Mariusz Lipski
September 02, 2024
While global challenges continue to reshape the here and now, public and corporate finance management needs to adapt quickly to increase the efficiency of institutions, enterprises and policies to face our new reality. There are very few publications that offer a comprehensive approach to the ...
Digital Currencies and the New Global Financial System
1st Edition
Edited
By Ranjan Aneja, Robert Dygas
August 26, 2024
This book analyses the current debate around Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) and the future of New Global Financial System. It offers deep insight into the global monetary policy in the context of digital and cryptocurrencies and examines both the opportunities and challenges to come. The ...
Money, Debt and Politics: The Bank of Lisbon and the Portuguese Liberal Revolution of 1820
1st Edition
By José Luís Cardoso
August 26, 2024
This book presents an innovative history of the first Portuguese public bank, by exploring the relationship between banking activities and the political context. It provides an overview of the origins of the banking system in Portugal, and also in Brazil, and explores new archive materials related ...