The book explores the vital role played by the financial service industries in enabling the
poor to consume over the last hundred and fifty years. Spending requires means, but these …

This article explores how transaction information is a fundamental element enabling and
fostering global flows of money. Financial systems, constructed around account‐based …

The future matters to business history, because the adoption of new technology and new
organizational forms has often been driven by acceptance of a collective sense of what the …

Most anywhere in the developed world, I can use a small rectangular piece of plastic, issued
to me by a bank I have never visited, to obtain local currency or purchase goods and …

This paper reviews the literature from diverse disciplines in order to trace historically, the
emergence of financial innovation and its governance. It starts with a charting of the …

This book traces the history and development of a mutual organization in the financial sector
called SWIFT, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication. Over the …

Speculative economic, financial, and cryptocurrency bubbles are not arcane anymore;
nonetheless, they are still misunderstood. For this exact reason, they continue to form even …

Over a decade has passed since a mysterious creator under the alias Satoshi Nakamoto (a
pseudonym) launched Bitcoin in January 2009, who designed it as a decentralized …

This book incorporates advances in financial and monetary history and theory and shows
the relevance of Spain's story to modern banking, monetary and development theory. It …

This paper provides a critique of information and communication technology (ICT) policies in
developing countries. Based on critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Iranian government …