Blockchain: A Hype or a Hoax? fills a gap in the book market to provide material that is not only technical but also caters to business readers. This book was written to keep in mind various stakeholders and the current gap in blockchain education as well as use case implementation. This book reviews blockchain technology, discusses why proof of concept fails, offers examples of use cases that have been successful and that have failed and articulates a framework that should be used before deciding whether blockchain is the right technology for transformation. It uses strategic models and frameworks to assist organisations to see a fit score for their specific use cases. This book provides guidance on how to create a blockchain strategy and a business case to pitch for the budget. It also includes a case study to apply the knowledge on practical use cases for blockchain and a technical overview of most of the blockchain use cases in the market including crypto, non-fungible tokens, decentralised finance, and decentralised autonomous organisations, as well as financial and non-financial industry use cases. This book also provides a detailed overview of most of the mainstream blockchain products currently available in the market. It also offers guidance on how readers can best educate themselves on blockchain technology that is available through commercial and free resources. It concludes with a clear direction on selecting blockchain to solve real-life use cases that are best fit. A financial and non-financial value-adding framework is discussed throughout this book to assist business leaders, programme managers, product managers and information technology leaders to make strategic choices, and business cases and develop strategies for digital transformation through the use of blockchain. The distinctive feature of this book is the critical analysis of blockchain from a technology and business perspective. This is the first book to focus on business, technology and blockchain selection framework. The most unique feature of this book would be to apply Michael Porter’s competitive advantage strategy theory on blockchain use cases and their impact on companies. This book is aimed at technology students, technology professionals, blockchain and fintech consultant and business leaders. It will also be useful for readers who are building a business case to adopt blockchain into an organisation or are seeking to grow their knowledge of blockchain and improve their fintech strategy.

About the Book This book offers a journey into the world of accountancy and financial statements. It unravels various types of financial frauds along with their Modus operandi. Emphasis is placed not only on detection of frauds but also on practical cases of fraud detected in India and abroad. About the Author Uday is the Founder & Managing Partner of U. S. Gandhi & Co., Mumbai and is a Member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) & Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) for over four decades. He is a qualified Arbitrator and Mediator from Mumbai University. In addition, he is also a member of Association of Fraud Examiners (ACFE), USA. He has practiced areas like audit & direct taxation for over four decades. For the last decade he has focused more on forensic audit, risk mitigation, employee fraud, promoter profiling etc. He is consulted regularly by the State and Central Government on criminality in cases of financial frauds. He extensively works with leading legal counsels on evidence building and litigation in cases of financial frauds. Uday has been an active speaker at law enforcement offices in Mumbai as well as at international conferences on “Fraud Investigations & Detection Techniques”. His firm is also empaneled with Indian Bank’s Association (IBA) as well as with Government of Maharashtra as forensic auditor. This book is a compilation of his extensive knowledge of various academic fields clubbed with his wide-ranging experience.

This book goes beyond theoretical discussions, offering practical guidance through real-world examples and case studies. We showcase how leading financial institutions are utilizing analytics, ML, and AI to gain a competitive edge.

Financial Cryptography 2000 marked the fourth time the technical, business, legal, and political communities from around the world joined together on the smallislandofAnguilla,BritishWestIndiestodiscussanddiscovernewadvances in securing electronic ?nancial transactions. The conference, sponsored by the International Financial Cryptography Association, was held on February 20– 24, 2000. The General Chair, Don Beaver, oversaw the local organization and registration. The program committee considered 68 submissions of which 21 papers were accepted. Each submitted paper was reviewed by a minimum of three referees. These proceedings contain revised versions of the 21 accepted papers. Revisions were not checked and the authors bear full responsibility for the content of their papers. This year’s program also included two invited lectures, two panel sessions, and a rump session. The invited talks were given by Kevin McCurley prese- ing “In the Search of the Killer App” and Pam Samuelson presenting “Towards a More Sensible Way of Regulating the Circumvention of Technical Protection Systems”. For the panel sessions, Barbara Fox and Brian LaMacchia mod- ated “Public-Key Infrastructure: PKIX, Signed XML, or Something Else” and Moti Yung moderated “Payment Systems: The Next Generation”. Stuart Haber organized the informal rump session of short presentations. This was the ?rst year that the conference accepted submissions electro- cally as well as by postal mail. Many thanks to George Davida, the electronic submissions chair, for maintaining the electronic submissions server. A majority of the authors preferred electronic submissions with 65 of the 68 submissions provided electronically.