Journal of Risk Finance: Volume 19 Issue 1

Guest editorial

Paolo Tasca

Blockchains and distributed ledgers in retrospective and perspective

Alexander Lipton

The purpose of this paper is to introduce blockchains and distributed ledgers and describe their potential applications to money and banking.

Case study of Lykke exchange: architecture and outlook

Richard Olsen, Stefano Battiston, Guido Caldarelli, Anton Golub, Mihail Nikulin, Sergey Ivliev

This paper aims to explain the architecture and design choices of the exchange. Lykke is a FinTech company based in Zurich that has launched the global marketplace for all asset…

An innovative RegTech approach to financial risk monitoring and supervisory reporting

Petros Kavassalis, Harald Stieber, Wolfgang Breymann, Keith Saxton, Francis Joseph Gross

The purpose of this study is to propose a bearer service, which generates and maintains a “digital doppelgänger” for every financial contract in the form of a dynamic transaction…

Using sentiment analysis to predict interday Bitcoin price movements

Vytautas Karalevicius, Niels Degrande, Jochen De Weerdt

The purpose of this study is to measure the interaction between media sentiment and the Bitcoin price. Because some researchers argued that the Bitcoin value is also determined by…

From digital currencies to digital finance: the case for a smart financial contract standard

Willi Brammertz, Allan I. Mendelowitz

This paper aims to demonstrate the importance of a cash flow generating standard for individual financial contract level data and the ability to create such a standard.