Frontmatter
Foreword
Preface
Contents
Introduction
The Authors
Digital Currencies and the Soul of Money
I. Digitalization and Data: Can Incumbents Keep Up?
Time for the Heavyweights - How established Financial Institutions can succeed in the Digital Assets Market
Data-driven Innovation in Financial Services - Opportunities and Prerequisites
Banks in the Digital Space
II. Technology and Regulation: Are we Focused on the Right Things?
Coordinating the regulatory approach to the new technology wave
Who is afraid of the Blockchain? Towards a new EU Approach to Financial Regulation
Adapting to the Digitalization of Banking and Finance
III. Central Bank Digital Currencies: Cui Bono?
The Case for and against CBDC - five Years later
The Digital Euro: Policy Implications and Perspectives
Central Bank Digital Currency: Is it really worth the Risk?
The Case for Central Bank Digital Currencies
On the Coming of Retail CBDCs: Public versus Private Money
Wholesale CBDC as a possible Option for providing a Safe and Efficient Settlement Asset for Future Financial Infrastructures
Theories and Practice of exploring China's e-CNY
Does Basel Dream of Electric Sheep? Prospects for the Development of Central Bank Digital Currencies
IV. Decentralized Finance, Blockchain, Payment Systems, Tokens and Stablecoins, the Changing Rails of Banking and Commerce: In What do we Trust?
A Douse of Digital Cold Water
Crypto Assets, CBDCs and Trust
Changing Landscape, Changing Supervision: Preserving Financial Stability in Times of Tech Revolution