Big Tech in Finance: How to Prevail in the Age of Blockchain, Digital Currencies and Web3

With Big Tech's breakthrough into finance with blockchain, it is imperative that finance players understand the ramifications and how they can defend their competitive advantage.

Big Tech in Finance provides a cutting edge look at Big Tech's play for domination of the crypto economy, its ramifications and how finance is fighting back. The book analyses the motives behind Big Tech's break into banking and unpicks the strategies behind the use of blockchain, technology interfaces, infrastructure and investments into blockchain unicorns. The book then goes onto review how organizations in finance are countering these threats, with governments and banks driving their own strategies and use of centralized blockchains.

Delving into the fight between Big Tech, Big Banking, start-ups, and regulators, Big Tech in Finance analyzes which actors have the best shot at succeeding. It explores the key tools in play, such as smart contracts, digital central bank currencies, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and the metaverse. The book also divulges the geopolitical dimensions underpinning the power struggle and its implications for the industry. Written by an internationally recognized expert on blockchain, the book draws on in-depth interviews with founders, investors, regulators, bankers and blockchain experts to provide valuable insider insights. This will be an essential read for finance and fintech professionals, bankers and investors and anyone else interested in the developments of fintech.

Author: Igor Pejic
Publisher: Kogan Page
Published: 05/30/2023
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.94d
ISBN13: 9781398608986
ISBN10: 139860898X
BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Finance | General
- Business & Economics | Corporate Finance | Venture Capital

About the Author
Igor Pejic is a leading expert on tech-driven shifts in banking and finance. Igor Pejic has held multiple management positions in banking and payments and is currently the Product Owner for Payment Cross-Selling at Consors Finanz BNP Paribas. He is a worldwide keynote speaker and expert panelist on the long-term strategic impact of new tech. He was voted by McKinsey and the Financial Times as one of three finalists in the Bracken Bower Prize with his work on blockchain. He is also the author of Blockchain Babel, published by Kogan Page, winner of the Independent Press Award 2020 and profiled as a Financial Times book of the month