Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Financial Technology and Law written by Iris H-Y Chiu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Financial technology is rapidly changing and shaping financial services and markets. These changes are considered making the future of finance a digital one.This Handbook analyses developments in the financial services, products and markets that are being reshaped by technologically driven changes with a view to their policy, regulatory, supervisory and other legal implications. The Handbook aims to illustrate the crucial role the law has to play in tackling the revolutionary developments in the financial sector by offering a framework of legally enforceable principles and values in which such innovations might take place without threatening the acquis of financial markets law and more generally the rule of law and basic human rights. With contributions from international leading experts, topics will include: Policy, High-level Principles, Trends and Perspectives Fintech and Lending Fintech and Payment Services Fintech, Investment and Insurance Services Fintech, Financial Inclusion and Sustainable Finance Cryptocurrencies and Cryptoassets Markets and Trading Regtech and Suptech This Handbook will be of great relevance for practitioners and students alike, and a first reference point for academics researching in the fields of banking and financial markets law.

Download or read book Tourism and Culture Synergies written by World Tourism Organization (Unwto) and published by World Tourism Organization. This book was released on 2018 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report highlights the relationship between tourism and culture and the interdependency of the two sectors. The report, based on a UNWTO survey, affirms that cultural tourism plays a major role in global tourism. It also reveals that the sector transformed lifestyles, created new culture forms and enhanced innovation in technology.

Download or read book Measuring the Information Society Report 2016 written by United Nations Publications and published by UN. This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Measuring the Information Society Report, which has been published annually since 2009, features key ICT data and benchmarking tools to measure the information society, including the ICT Development Index (IDI). The IDI 2016 captures the level of ICT developments in 175 economies worldwide and compares progress made since the year 2014. The MISR 2016 assesses IDI findings at the regional level and highlights countries that rank at the top of the IDI and those that have improved their position in the overall IDI rankings most dynamically since 2014. It will also use the findings of the IDI to analyze trends and developments in the digital divide. The report will present 2015 prices for about 160 countries and provide a detailed analysis of mobile-cellular, fixed-broadband and mobile-broadband prices over the period 2008-2015. It will highlight the role of ICTs in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and present the newly agreed SDG indicator framework, including the ICT indicators. The report will also include a chapter looking into new metrics to measure mobile uptake, and a chapter presenting data analyzing Internet use and uptake.

Download or read book No More Free Lunch written by Claes Brundenius and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 2010, the Cuban government decided to embark on an economic reform program, unprecedented after the Revolution in 1959. This opened up opportunities for Cuban economists and scholars to participate in the development of the reform program. Thanks to grants from SSRC (Social Sciences Research Council, New York) and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, several researchers from the Cuban think tank CEEC (Center for Studies of the Cuban Economy, Havana) got an opportunity to visit countries that could be of interest for the reform process, notably Vietnam, but also Brazil, South Africa and Norway. The result of these field visits and a subsequent workshop involving contributions from Cuban as well as non-Cuban scholars, this volume showcases unprecedented new insights into the process and prospects for reform along many dimensions, including foreign direct investment, import substitution, entrepreneurship and business creation, science and technology development, and fiscal policies. The resulting analysis, in a comparative perspective, provides a framework for future research as well as for business practice and policymaking.

Download or read book Criptomoneda y soberan a written by Alejandro Alessi and published by Editorial Punto de Encuentro. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El tema de este libro es de singular relevancia y eso no solo por la incidencia de las nuevas tecnologías en las cuestiones monetarias y, por ende, económicas, sino porque, a mediano plazo, podría determinar cambios en las más diversas áreas de la vida social como un todo. La realidad confirma, a cada paso, dramáticamente, esta percepción. En efecto, en plena guerra ruso-ucraniana, la geopolítica ingresó de lleno en la cuestión: el presidente de los Estados Unidos anunció un decreto según el cual se estudiaría la creación de una criptomoneda oficial, con respaldo institucional. Al mismo tiempo -como sucede con otras tecnologías que la gran potencia aspira a monopolizar- el Fondo Monetario Internacional que encadenó a la Argentina con el mayor préstamo mundial de su historia y también de la historia de nuestro país, incluyó en el memorándum de acuerdo de facilidades extendidas una cláusula por la que debiamos renunciar al uso de criptomonedas. Estamos metidos de lleno en la bisagra entre la geopolítica y el salto tecnológico que se está produciendo a nivel global. ¿Podemos permanecer impasibles? Si la Argentina no se ocupa del nuevo mundo cripto, el mundo cripto se ocupará de la Argentina.

Download or read book Regulation of Cryptocurrency Around the World written by The Law The Law Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-17 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report surveys the legal and policy landscape surrounding cryptocurrencies around the world. While not dissimilar in form to the 2014 Law Library of Congress report on the same subject, which covered forty foreign jurisdictions and the European Union, this report is significantly more comprehensive, covering 130 countries as well as some regional organizations that have issued laws or policies on the subject. This expansive growth is primarily attributable to the fact that over the past four years cryptocurrencies have become ubiquitous, prompting more national and regional authorities to grapple with their regulation. The resulting availability of a broader set of information regarding how various jurisdictions are handling the fast-growing cryptocurrency market makes it possible to identify emerging patterns, some of which are described below. The country surveys are also organized regionally to allow for region-specific comparisons.One interesting aspect of the fast-growing cryptocurrency market is the fluidity of the terms used to describe the different products that fall within its ambit. While the various forms of what are broadly known as "cryptocurrencies" are similar in that they are primarily based on the same type of decentralized technology known as blockchain with inherent encryption, the terminology used to describe them varies greatly from one jurisdiction to another. Some of the terms used by countries to reference cryptocurrency include: digital currency (Argentina, Thailand, and Australia), virtual commodity (Canada, China, Taiwan), crypto-token (Germany), payment token (Switzerland), cyber currency (Italy and Lebanon), electronic currency (Colombia and Lebanon), and virtual asset (Honduras and Mexico).

Download or read book Cuban Currency written by Esther Katheryn Whitfield and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, during an economic crisis termed its “special period in times of peace,” Cuba began to court the capitalist world for the first time since its 1959 revolution. With the U.S. dollar instated as domestic currency, the island seemed suddenly accessible to foreign consumers, and their interest in its culture boomed. Cuban Currency is the first book to address the effects on Cuban literature of the country’s spectacular opening to foreign markets that marked the end of the twentieth century. Based on interviews and archival research in Havana, Esther Whitfield argues that writers have both challenged and profited from new transnational markets for their work, with far-reaching literary and ideological implications. Whitfield examines money and cross-cultural economic relations as they are inscribed in Cuban fiction. Exploring the work of Zo Valds, Pedro Juan Gutirrez, Antonio Jos Ponte and others, she draws out writers’ engagements with the troublesome commodification of Cuban identity. Confronting the tourist and publishing industries’ roles in the transformation of the Cuban revolution into commercial capital, Whitfield identifies a body of fiction peculiarly attuned to the material and political challenges of the “special period.” Esther Whitfield is assistant professor of comparative literature at Brown University.

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Download or read book A Loving Faithful Animal written by Josephine Rowe and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I found myself considering those rare things only books can do, feats outside the purview of film or fine art . . . Gorgeous." —Samantha Hunt, The New York Times Book Review It is New Year’s Eve 1990, in a small town in southeast Australia. Ru’s father, Jack, one of thousands of Australians once conscripted to serve in the Vietnam War, has disappeared. This time Ru thinks he might be gone for good. As rumors spread of a huge black cat stalking the landscape beyond their door, the rest of the family is barely holding on. Ru’s sister, Lani, is throwing herself into sex, drugs, and dangerous company. Their mother, Evelyn, is escaping into memories of a more vibrant youth. And meanwhile there is Les, Jack’s inscrutable brother, who seems to move through their lives like a ghost, earning both trust and suspicion. A Loving, Faithful Animal is an incandescent portrait of one family searching for what may yet be redeemable from the ruins of war. Tender, brutal, and heart–stopping in its beauty, this novel marks the arrival in the United States of Josephine Rowe, the winner of the 2016 Elizabeth Jolley Prize and one of Australia’s most extraordinary young writers.

Download or read book Armed Forces Origami written by Jayson Merrill and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2017-03-17 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Action-packed book for advanced origamists features projects from ground, sea, and air forces. Fifteen military models include Trident, Hornet, and other missiles, machine guns, aircraft carriers, jet fighters, more.

Download or read book Medicine and Charity Before the Welfare State written by Jonathan Barry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a broad perspective on the relationship between charity and medicine in Western Europe up to the advent of welfare states in the twentieth century.

Download or read book How the Fox Got His Color written by Adele Crouch and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This delightful little story tells of a young girl's time with her grandmother as she relates a legend of how a mischievous little white fox, with all his grand adventures, became the red fox we all know today. How the Fox got His Color may well become an all-time children's classic and a perfect book for the young reader.

Download or read book The Wedding Thief written by Helen Adam and published by . This book was released on 2021-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictional story featuring a woman with the much-misunderstood condition of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DOD) and the effects of early trauma on personality imposed by a religious cult resulting in the committing of crime.

Download or read book Things Liars Say written by Sara Ney and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lies, lies, lies; everybody tells them.... Greyson Keller didn't intend to lie; it just came out that way. So when the object of that lie shows up on her doorstep, she is confused, shocked, and embarrassed. Calvin Thompson is an Ivy Leaguer, attending University over an hour away, playing rugby and basically not giving a crap. So imagine his surprise when some guy named Greyson begins rumors online that they're dating -- the only logical solution is to drive an hour and confront him... Be there when Greyson and Cal finally meet face-to-face because. Sparks. Will. Fly. Yes, sparks fly. That's why this book is intended for those 17+ and older. Foul language, cursing, and sexual content.

Download or read book Red Dirt Heart 4 written by N. R. Walker and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving from a Texas ranch to an Australian Outback station was a life changing decision for Travis Craig. Though it wasn't really a decision at all. Something in his bones told him to go, though he had no clue as to why. Until he met Sutton Station's owner, Charlie. Loving Charlie shouldn't have been easy. The man was stubborn, and riddled with crippling self-doubt. No, it shouldn't have been easy at all. Yet somehow, falling in love with Charlie was the easiest thing in the world. Loving him was easy. Living with him, teaching him how to love in return and, more importantly, how to love himself, was not. But Travis knew all along it'd be worth it. He knew the man with the red dirt heart was destined to be his. Just like he knew the red dirt that surrounded him was where he was supposed to be. In the final instalment of the Red Dirt Series, we see Charlie through Travis' eyes. We see how much he's grown and how much he loves. We go back to Texas with them, and we see Charlie get everything he truly thought he never deserved. Red Dirt Heart 4 is Travis' story. And this is the story of not just one red dirt heart, but two

Download or read book The Pigeon Chronicles written by Stephen Torelli and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pigeon Chronicles will touch the hearts of readers of all ages. Little Pete, a 21st Century adolescent from Alexandria, Virginia has a fancy to shoot pool with a young George Washington and ventures to 1748. Before finding George, he meets a mix of characters including a pirate and a young colonial beauty. Thunderstruck, he plays the game of his life. The pirate, Nate Teach, has affection for those who live in the realm of his subculture. A pirate without a ship and broken, he attempts to hustle young Pete at the billiard table but ends having an epiphany...On a quest from hell, the pirate stands there with pool-cue in hand. Young Pete stares in awe as they lock eyes. The destroyer says, "I'm a sea rover mate, but can't you tell? I fly the black flag and send them to hell?" His temptress stands and pouts while a red glow sparkles from a ruby set in her ivory fang. The contest begins. And Mima Piccola, the tough spirited colonial beauty, who is tougher than the average 21st century adolescent. When young Pete jumbles his time travel pursuit, he finds her 60 year old journal and sheds tears: October, 1748 My Dearest Pete, I miss you dearly and hope we meet again. You left a short note and said you will return. We only spent a short time together and I hope nothing bad has happened. We connect in that special way, as if the same thoughts run through our minds. You are the one. I wish to get old with you. I love you and always will! Indulge in a tale of mystery, time travel, spirituality and pigeons that outshine modern technology, colorful-winged birds that superintend what lies ahead, and not to mention... a young George Washington.

Download or read book The Book of I written by Jorge Armenteros and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a French village, painter Teaston has witnessed a woman's fatal jump off a nearby cliff. Growing lost in the 'whiteness' of his schizophrenia, he paints out the faces on his canvases, searching for the 'holes where eyes could fall in'."--Page 4 of cover.