The Pay Off (eBook)

How Changing the Way We Pay Changes Everything

Gottfried Leibbrandt, Natasha De Terán (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
320 Seiten
Elliott & Thompson (Verlag)
978-1-78396-607-3 (ISBN)

Infos

'Admirably lucid' - Gillian Tett, FT 'What happens when we make a payment is literally a multi-billion dollar question. This is a fascinating and entertaining insight into those seconds between clicking a button and money appearing in far-off accounts - and the changing face of those who profit.' - Dharshini David, author of The Almighty Dollar How we pay is so fundamental that it underpins everything - from trade to taxation, stocks and savings to salaries, pensions and pocket money. Rich or poor, criminal, communist or capitalist, we all rely on the same payments system, day in, day out. It sits between us and not just economic meltdown, but a total breakdown in law and order. Why then do we know so little about how it really works? As you read this, technology is dismantling payment barriers and governments are erecting them; cash is on the way out, and crypto and BigTech are fighting their way in. The Europeans are heavily regulated, the Americans oddly backward, and the Chinese hoping to lead the way forward. Challenging our understanding about where financial power really lies, The Pay Off shows us that the most important thing about money is the way we move it. Leibbrandt and De Terán shine a light on the hidden workings of the humble payment - and reveal both how our payment habits are determined by history as well as where we go from here. From national customs to warring nation states, geopolitics will shape the future of payments every bit as much as technology.

A self-confessed payments nerd, Gottfried Leibbrandt is the former CEO of SWIFT, the cross-border payments network. Prior to that, he was a partner with McKinsey & Company. He holds degrees from Vrije Universteit Amsterdam, Maastricht University, and Stanford Business School.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.7.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Schlagworte: 2030: How Today’s Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything • Bigtech • Bitcoin • Bitcoin: The Future of Money • Blockchain • business • Capital • Cards • Cash • cheques • consumer • Cost • Cryptocurrency • crypto economics • Current Affairs • cybercrime • David Graeber • Debt: The First 5000 years • Dominic Frisby • Doughnut Economics • E-Commerce • economy • Education • Finance • Freakonomics • Geopolitics • Globalisation • Government • History • Investment • Kate Raworth • Klaus Schwab • Mauro F. Guillen • Michael Lewis • Microeconomics • Mobile Wallet • MONEY • Nonfiction • Payment System • Pension • Politics • Popular economics • Profit • Saifedean Ammous • salaries • Savings • Society • Stephen J. Dubner • Steven D. Levitt • Stocks • Taxation • Technology • The Bitcoin Standard • the fourth industrial revolution • Tim Marshall • Trade
• ISBN-10: 1-78396-607-6 / 1783966076
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78396-607-3 / 9781783966073