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BOOK OF THE WEEK by Linda Jennings – FinTech in a Flash: Financial Technology made Easy (2018 Edition), Agustin Rubini, 9781545165539 (Create Space) BD8.400 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members.
Welcome to the exciting world of FinTech! The financial services technology industry is booming, with investment in excess of $20 billion just in the last year.
There are more than 5,000 FinTech start-ups operating, and 50 of them have already reached a billion-dollar valuation. The scope of this market goes way beyond online payments.
Financial technology promises to change the way we manage our money online, disrupting the landscape of the financial services industry is being disrupted. Understanding its many facets is the key to navigating the complex nuances of this global industry.
FinTech in a Flash is your comprehensive guide to the future of banking and insurance. The book aims to break down the key concepts in a way that will help you understand every aspect so that you can take advantage of new technologies.
Inside you’ll find an array of hot topics such as online payments, crowd-funding, challenger banks, online insurance, digital lending, big data and digital commerce. It will make you rethink the way that you manage your money online, and even find new ways of making online payments. Comprehensive, organised and detailed, this guide is your go-to source for everything you need to confidently navigate the ever-changing scene of this booming sector.
In this book you will receive:
• Easy to understand explanations of the 14 main areas of FinTech and the author’s view on the future of each of these areas.
• Insight into the main FinTech hubs in the world.
• Insight into the so called Unicorns, the FinTech firms that have made it past a $1 billion valuation
• More than 100 upcoming FinTech companies to watch
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Cryptocurrency Investing for Dummies.Top 20 Cryptocurrencies 2018, Jared Benson, 9781983566349 (Create Space). BD5.900 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members.
Are you looking for ways to earn money online with crypto-trading, but you have no idea what to do in the crypto-currencies coin market?
There is still an opportunity for people to join the revolution. With Cryptocurrency Investing for Dummies, readers can start investing in main cryptocurrencies if they so wish.
Here is a preview of what you’ll learn in this book:
• Blockchain Revolution
• 10 reasons why Bitcoin is not the best
• Main facts about cryptocurrency investing
• How to trade cryptocurrency – main steps for beginners
• What are crypto – bounties campaigns
• What is an ICOs and how does it work
Investing in cryptocurrencies is extremely popular right now - there are risks, of course, but with this book you can reduce some of them by becoming educated with insider information and signals which its author suggests could be used to start earning on your investments.
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Mastering Bitcoin for Starters, Alan Norman, 9781976570858 (Create Space). BD5.900 for Gulf Weekly Book Club.
Bitcoin is not just a new word in the Internet age or technological and financial progress, it’s a start of a new era on the earth, claims Alan Norman.
Even 10 years ago we even couldn’t imagine dreaming about digital money - you can’t physically touch them but you can own and spend it. Today this is a reality. The Bitcoin revolution covered the whole world like a huge wave, more and more people interested in this ‘digital gold’.
Over the past few years, Bitcoin has grown from something known only to a select few tech nerds into a revolutionary currency that has rapidly changed the way that we think about the concept of money. You no doubt see payments accepted in all kinds of places now, but, if you can believe it, it used to be a fairly complicated procedure for finding places that let you pay in Bitcoin.
We can’t guarantee that you will know EVERYTHING from this book, but we can guarantee you will have the notion of a new currency - Bitcoin.
What is it? Where did it come from? How do you use it? Is it really just fake internet money created by drug dealers? That is precisely what is answered in this book.
It covers everything you need to know in order to get started with Bitcoin:
• Understanding the Blockchain and Bitcoin transactions
• Where to keep your Bitcoin (how to choose a secure wallet)
• Buying Bitcoin
• How to start accepting and using Bitcoin as a part of your business
• Principles of Bitcoin mining
• The security of Bitcoin
