Web3 in Financial Services
How Blockchain, Digital Assets and Crypto are Disrupting Traditional Finance
- 304 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Web3 in Financial Services
How Blockchain, Digital Assets and Crypto are Disrupting Traditional Finance
About this book
In an unprecedented time of disruption, Web3 in Financial Services cuts through the noise to ensure financial service professionals are equipped with the knowledge needed to benefit from Web3. Web3 in Financial Services explains what Web3 means for finance, outlining its key use cases and exploring the unique business opportunities and challenges it presents. It clarifies key developments such as custody, stablecoins, CDBCs and tokenized deposits, payments, asset tokenization, DeFi and digital identity. Investigating how organizations are testing and adopting these emergent technologies, the book is supported by cutting-edge, real-life examples from incumbents and challengers alike, including Fidelity Digital Assets, J.P. Morgan ONYX, Coinbase, Anchorage Digital, Circle, Ripple and Aave. The book reviews what's at stake for major ecosystem players such as banks, investors and regulators and appraises the changes still needed to enable more mainstream adoption of Web3. Web3 in Financial Services answers pressing questions such as: what does Web3 really mean for financial services and what are the use cases with potential for disruption? What are the innovations that companies are actually doing within this space? And how do organizations need to adapt? This is an essential read for finance and fintech professionals, bankers and investors who need to grasp the essentials of Web3, blockchain, digital assets and decentralisation and its ramifications for financial services.
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Table of contents
- About the author
- PART ONE Early days: Web3 and financial services
- 01 Introduction
- 02 What is Web3 and why does it matter to financial services?
- PART TWO Emergent use cases driving change in traditional financial services
- 03 Custody
- 04 Evolution of money and payments
- 05 Tokenization
- 06 Lending and borrowing
- 07 Digital identity
- PART THREE The major players in Web3: opportunities, challenges and implications
- 08 Traditional institutions and the adoption of Web3
- 09 How DeFi is reimagining finance
- 10 Investments in Web3
- 11 The regulatory perspective of Web3
- PART FOUR Moving forward
- 12 Industry changes needed for mainstream adoption of Web3
- 13 Web3 and the future of finance
- Acknowledgements
- Index