The digital currency challenge : shaping online payment systems through U.S. financial regulations / Philip Mullan.

Private online digital currency systems offer people accessible, convenient, and inexpensive everyday financial tools outside of traditional bank-owned and operated platforms. Digital currency systems facilitate local and international fund transfers, online and offline payments, and simple cash-to-...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Mullan, Philip (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Basingstoke] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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Table of Contents:
  • Section I. The Birth of An Industry
  • 1 Introduction : Solving global payment issues with private digital currency
  • 2 Pros and cons of early ecash products
  • 3 Getting started with digital currency
  • 4 Conventional bank payments vs private digital currency
  • 5 The economics & theory behind new digital currency systems
  • 6 Building better money
  • 7 Establishing the environment for community and commercial applications
  • 8 Integrating new digital currency financial products into retail consumer markets
  • 9 Scaling existing digital currency payment systems for global use
  • Section II. Shaping Systems through Financial Regulations
  • 10 Introduction : The developing social, technological and global trends that are reshaping personal financial services
  • 11 How proactive regulatory action can improve the development of future systems
  • 12 Pros and cons of regulatory changes in global digital currency systems
  • 13 The outcome of interaction with U.S. regulatory agencies
  • 14 Software and technology operating behind the regulatory curve
  • 15 Benefits of new software structures in retail commercial markets
  • 16 The high cost of ignoring regulations
  • Section III. Emerging Markets
  • 17 Building the perfect digital payment system
  • 18 Defining the core design elements that will drive future growth
  • 19 New product marketing for personal and commercial customers
  • 20 Avoiding past issues and regulatory pitfalls
  • 21 Employing a person-2-person approach in creating new digital currency structures
  • 22 How previous business outcomes can change the implementation of any new digital currency system.
  • 23 Practical currency system designs for future commercial markets
  • 24 The economics and theory of future digital currency systems.