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.
Negative Interest Rates and Financial Stability: Lessons in Systemic Risk
1st Edition
By Karol Rogowicz, Małgorzata Iwanicz-Drozdowska
August 26, 2024
This book sheds new light on a recently introduced monetary tool – negative interest rates policy (NIRP). It provides in-depth insight into this phenomenon, conducted by the central banks in several economies, for example, the Eurozone, Switzerland and Japan, and its possible impact on systemic ...
The Digital Revolution in Banking, Insurance and Capital Markets
1st Edition
Edited
By Lech Gąsiorkiewicz, Jan Monkiewicz
August 26, 2024
The digital transformation of finance and banking enables traditional services to be delivered in a more effective and efficient way but, at the same time, presents crucial issues such as fast-growing new asset classes, new currencies, datafication and data privacy, algorithmization of law and ...
Green Bonds and Sustainable Finance: The Evolution of Portfolio Management in Conventional Markets
1st Edition
Edited
By Muhammad Saeed Meo, Marcin W. Staniewski
August 01, 2024
This book introduces green bonds and their significance in portfolio management and sustainable finance. It emphasizes the significance of green bonds in terms of two primary factors: environmental sustainability and investor return. The book establishes the definitions, features, and typology of ...
Strategy, Finance and Sustainable Value Creation
1st Edition
By Claudio Scardovi
August 01, 2024
Strategy and finance are generally viewed as two separate subjects. Once regarded with fascination, they have become the subject of strong criticism, the first considered too theoretical and long term to be of any use and the second too speculative and short term to contribute to value creation. ...
Safe Assets in the Global Economy: Supply, Demand and Financial Stability
1st Edition
By Joanna Bogołębska, Ewa Feder-Sempach, Ewa Stawasz-Grabowska
July 31, 2024
Safe assets constitute an essential component of the contemporary, international financial system and are vital to its stability. As they are perceived as risk-free assets, they are a special type of financial instrument. Although the vast majority of safe assets are issued by governments, due to ...
Banking Reforms in Africa: Implications for Economic Welfare and Poverty Reduction
1st Edition
By Agnes Olatokunbo Martins
June 28, 2024
This book comprehensively explores the intricate relationship between banking reforms, economic well-being, and poverty reduction across the African continent. Delving into the historical roots of banking reforms, it examines the resilience of banking sectors in key African countries like South ...
Digital Finance and the Future of the Global Financial System: Disruption and Innovation in Financial Services
1st Edition
Edited
By Lech Gąsiorkiewicz, Jan Monkiewicz
May 27, 2024
This book offers an in-depth analysis of the most salient features of contemporary financial systems and clarifies the major strategic issues facing the development of digital finance. It provides insight into how the digital finance system actually works in a socioeconomic context. It presents ...
Responsible Finance and Digitalization: Implications and Developments
1st Edition
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By Panu Kalmi, Tommi Auvinen, Marko Järvenpää
May 27, 2024
The aftermath of the 2008 crisis has substantially increased the regulation of banks and insurance companies and curtailed their risk taking, which has shifted much of the risk to their clients: firms and consumers. At the same time, digitalization has encouraged the entry of new firms combining ...
Sovereign Debt Sustainability: Multilateral Debt Treatment and the Credit Rating Impasse
1st Edition
By Daniel Cash
May 27, 2024
In 2020, the G20 proposed a solution for the debt-related issues affecting the world’s poorest countries due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, their initiatives have failed to meet their objectives. The author argues that the reason for this failure is the inability to bring sovereign countries to...
Open Banking: Global Development and Regulation
1st Edition
By Francesco De Pascalis, Alan Brener
May 01, 2024
Open banking ends the proprietary control of customer information by banks and allows customers to share their banking financial data with third parties as a matter of right. It can also permit customers to allow others to remove funds directly from their bank accounts in return for goods and ...
Non-Fungible Tokens: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Usman W. Chohan
April 19, 2024
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have blossomed into an area of immense cultural, investment, and academic interest, and this groundswell of fascination with non-fungible digital tokenization has been accompanied by a variety of attitudes towards their function, purpose, and potential. Some advocates ...
International Banking in Global Perspective
1st Edition
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By Carmela D'Avino, Mimoza Shabani
March 04, 2024
Banks play the most vital role in the economy by acting as financial intermediaries and providing the necessary credit to fund consumption and investment, thereby effecting real economic activity. Banks have been in existence for centuries and while the core of their function remains the same, ...