Book notes: Fintech: finance, technology and regulation, by Ross Buckley, Douglas Arner and Dirk Zetzsche

Ross P. Buckley, Douglas W. Arner and Dirk A. Zetzsche, FinTech: finance, technology and regulation, Cambridge University Press, 2024, 352 pages

Although the emergence of fintech is widely viewed as a phenomenon of the past decade-and-a-half, it has a much longer history, as the authors of this book persuasively argue. The interaction between finance and technology goes back at least to the laying of the first successful transatlantic cable in 1866. This ushered in what the authors term the first