Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking
About the Book Series
This series explores the roles of money and banking in the modern world. Banking is an increasingly important and international industry, and its interaction with money is a major concern for the world's economic policy-makers.
The Sustainable Capital Revolution: Banking for the Future
1st Edition
By Claudio Scardovi
August 11, 2025
Modern capitalism has focused on profit maximization at the expense of non-renewable natural resources. This has led to wealth polarization – that is, social unsustainability – and climate change – that is, environmental unsustainability. Value migration has occurred between the ...
Financial and Technological Innovation for Sustainability: Environmental, Social and Governance Performance
1st Edition
Edited
By Artie Ng, Jatin Nathwani
July 30, 2025
The COVID-19 crisis has proven that sustainability of an institution or organization requires a constant review of one’s strategic positioning and the execution of pertinent plans in response to evolving externalities. Resilient organizations continue to revive themselves through effective R&D ...
Innovation in Banking and Financial Intermediaries: The Disruptive Role of ESG Policies and Fintech Players
1st Edition
Edited
By Enrico Fioravante Geretto, Egidio Palmieri
July 18, 2025
This volume provides a thorough examination of the drivers of recent innovations in the financial sector. The book's distinctive feature lies in its unique integration of two subjects of particular relevance in the fields of finance and banking: Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) policies ...
Sustainable Investing Through Exchange-Traded Products: Exchange-Traded Funds and Exchange-Traded Notes
1st Edition
By Adam Marszk
July 01, 2025
Despite the rapid and substantial increase in the popularity of exchange-traded products (ETPs), particularly exchange-traded funds (ETFs), some categories remain underexplored in the academic and professional literature. One of the most notable examples is exchange-traded notes (ETNs). This book ...
Behavioral Finance in the Digital Era: Saving and Investment Decisions
1st Edition
By Elżbieta Kubińska, Magdalena Adamczyk-Kowalczuk, Anna Macko
June 27, 2025
Due to swift technological changes and the resultant digital revolution, a wide range of new digital financial products and services have emerged in the financial markets, as witnessed in the context of the fintech sector, the economics of blockchain and NFT issuance. This book takes an in-depth ...
Ethical Finance and Prosperity: Beyond Environmental, Social and Governance Investing
1st Edition
By Ugo Biggeri, Giovanni Ferri, Federica Ielasi, Pedro Manuel Sasia
June 27, 2025
The debate on connections between economic activity and socio-environmental impact has become increasingly relevant. As a result, ethical finance is emerging from its niche. However, the terms "ethical finance" and "sustainable finance" are often confused and overlapping, and the risk of ...
Sustainable Development and Finance in Europe: Environmental, Social and Governance Reporting in Financial Markets
1st Edition
By Małgorzata Janicka, Artur Sajnóg
June 09, 2025
Sustainable development is a major challenge of our times. The conditions necessary for sustainable transformation cut across all economic entities and sectors that operate on macro- and micro-economic scales, both nationally and internationally. The subject of sustainability has been represented ...
Alternative Acquisition Models and Financial Innovation: Special Purpose Acquisition Companies in Europe, and the Italian Legal Framework
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniele D'Alvia, Ettore Maria Lombardi, Yochanan Shachmurove
May 27, 2025
This is the first book written in English on special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) in the context of European and Italian financial law, introducing the topic with a general overview on the European stage. It is also the first book on European financial regulations of SPACs. As such, it is ...
Digital Transformation and the Economics of Banking: Economic, Institutional, and Social Dimensions
1st Edition
Edited
By Piotr Łasak, Jonathan Williams
May 27, 2025
The book provides deep insight into the processes of digital transformation of banking according to economic, institutional, and social dimensions. Together with the transformation of incumbent banks, the processes result in changes in the scope of existing banking services. Moreover, new entities ...
Activist Retail Investors and the Future of Financial Markets: Understanding YOLO Capitalism
1st Edition
Edited
By Usman W. Chohan, Sven Van Kerckhoven
December 19, 2024
Contemporary financial markets have been characterized by sociocultural phenomena such as "meme stocks", the Gamestop short squeeze, and "You Only Live Once (YOLO) trading". These are movements led by small-scale retail investors banding together to participate forcefully in financial markets ...
Banking, Risk and Crises in Europe: From the Global Financial Crisis to COVID-19
1st Edition
By Renata Karkowska, Zbigniew Korzeb, Anna Matysek-Jędrych, Paweł Niedziółka
December 18, 2024
European economies have been plagued by successive crises, from the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) to the COVID-19 pandemic, through to the economic and geopolitical instability in Ukraine. These events, the uncertainty they generate combined with dynamic technological progress and significant ...
COVID-19 and European Banking Performance: Resilience, Recovery and Sustainability
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Wachtel, Ewa Miklaszewska
December 18, 2024
The monograph presents a comprehensive analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on European banking, both at a macro and a micro level. It analyses the impact of the pandemic on bank stability, performance and credit policies, as well as their strategic adjustments to the challenges brought ...