Regulating the crypto economy : business transformations and financialisation /

"This book focuses on the crypto economy as an alternative economic space and discusses how it should be governed. Decentralised finance and other financial innovations in the crypto economy are also discussed, and the book proposes a blueprint for regulation in this dynamic landscape in order...

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Main Authors: Chiu, Iris H.-Y.
Published: Hart,
Publisher Address: Oxford :
Publication Dates: 2021.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Hart studies in commercial and financial law ; volume 6
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Summary: "This book focuses on the crypto economy as an alternative economic space and discusses how it should be governed. Decentralised finance and other financial innovations in the crypto economy are also discussed, and the book proposes a blueprint for regulation in this dynamic landscape in order to meet a balance of public and private interest objectives. This work argues for the extension of 'regulatory capitalism' to this perceived 'wild west' of an alternative economic space, and advances the message that a disruptive regulatory agenda is needed to account for the developments brought about by the crypto economy"--
Carrier Form: xvi, 348 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [302]-328) and index.
ISBN: 9781509935741
1509935746
9781509954490
150995449X
Index Number: K4433
CLC: D912.285
Call Number: D912.285/C543
Contents: A legal mapping of the crypto economy and the drivers for institutional change -- Rise of the productive crypto economy and the need for regulation -- Financial regulators' approaches to the crypto economy -- Facilitating the crypto economy : the law of business organisations and governance -- The financing of blockchain-based business development and the need for regulation -- Regulating the monetary order of the crypto economy -- Regulating crypto finance -- Upcoming trends and concluding remarks.