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Citi Digital Money Index (DMI)

The index classifies countries into four clusters – Incipient, Emerging, In-transition and Materially Ready - according to their levels of digital readiness.

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NATO Advisory Group on emerging and disruptive technologies

The adoption of emerging and disruptive technologies requires NATO to operate at a pace of relevance that matches the dynamic technology landscape that surrounds it and to cooperate with a variety of non-traditional actors to achieve this

A survey of consensus algorithms in public blockchain systems for crypto-currencies

In recent years, crypto-currencies have been quite popular as an alternative form of payments. They are underpinned by a breakthrough technology called Blockchain which extensively use a number of cryptographic mechanisms and other advanced technique

Reinventing Banking and Finance: Frameworks to Navigate Global Fintech Innovation

Beginning with the history and background of how banking got to the era of fintech, the book provides a thorough overview of the global fintech ecosystem and the drivers behind innovation in technologies, business models and distribution channels.

2022 Citi DMI report

Citi, in partnership with Imperial College Business School’s Centre for Financial Technology, has launched its latest Digital Money Index. The index tracks 113 countries in terms of their development o digital money readiness.

Insurance for Large Scale Commercial Risks

Equilibrium counterfactuals

We incorporate structural modellers into the economy they model. Using the traditional moment-matching method, they ignore policy feedback and estimate parameters using a structural model that treats policy changes as zero probability (or exogenous)

Delgado, A., 2022, Smart Contracts: A Transaction Costs Approach, in Allen & Hunn (eds), Smart Legal Contracts: Computable Law in Theory and Practice
Chana, D and Campoy Guzman, J. G., 2022, Citi Digital Money Index report

Alfonso Delgado, Smart Contracts: Taxonomy, Transaction Costs, and Design Trade-offs, in Jason Allen and Peter Hunn (eds), Smart Legal Contracts: Computable Law in Theory and Practice (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
Chemla, G., and K. Tinn, 2021 (October), “How Wise are Crowds on Crowdfunding Platforms?”, Palgrave Handbook of Technological Finance, Raghu Rau, Robert Waldrop, Luigi Zingales (eds)
Mohammad A Hoque, Md Sadek Ferdous, Mohsin Khan and Sasu Tarkoma. "Real, Forged or Deep Fake? Enabling the Ground Truth on the Internet", IEEE Access, forthcoming
Chowdhury, M. J. M., Usman, M., Ferdous, M. S., Chowdhury, N., Harun, A. I., Jannat, U. S., Biswas, K. “A Cross-Layer Trust-based Consensus Protocol for Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading Using Fuzzy Logic”. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2021.
Ifteher Alom, I., Eshita, R. M., Harun, A. I., Ferdous, M. S., Shuhan, M. K. B, Chowdhury, M. J. M., Rahman, M. S. “Dynamic Management of Identity Federations using Blockchain”. Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) sponsored conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), 2021.
Alfonso Delgado De Molina Rius: “Smart Contracts: Taxonomy, Transaction Costs and Design Trade-offs”, chapter in Smart Legal Contracts (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
Alfonso Delgado De Molina Rius: Stablecoins for On-Chain Derivatives: Opportunities and Risks, draft submitted to the International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (2021)
Chowdhury, M. J. M., Ferdous, M. S., Biswas, K., Chowdhury, N., Muthukkumarasamy, V. “COVID- 19 Contact Tracing: Challenges and Future Directions”. IEEE Access, Volume 8, 2020.
Bhuiyan, M. S. I., Razzak, A., Ferdous, M. S., Chowdhury, M. J. M., Hoque, M. A., Tarkoma, S. “BONIK: A Blockchain Empowered Chatbot for Financial Transactions”. In the proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom 2020), 2020.
Shahriar, M. A., Bappy, F. H., Hossain, A. K. M. F., Saikat, D. D., Ferdous, M. S., Chowdhury, M. J. M., Bhuiyan, M. Z. A. “Modelling Attacks in Blockchain Systems using Petri Nets”. In the proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom 2020), 2020.
Chowdhury, A. A., Chowdhury, F., Ferdous, M. S. “A Study of Password Security Factors among Bangladeshi Government Websites”. In the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), 2020.
Sarker, S. Saha, A. K., Ferdous, M. S. “A Survey on Blockchain & Cloud Integration”. In the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), 2020.
Shammee, T. I., Akter, T., Mou, M., Chowdhury, F., Ferdous, M. S. “A Systematic Literature Review of Graphical Password Scheme”. Journal of Computing Science and Engineering, 14 (4), 163-185, 2020.
D. Chana: “How Machine Learning Really Works” interview in the Chartered Institute for IT, 25th Nov 20: https://www.bcs.org/content-hub/how-machine-learning-really-works/
D. Chana - Delivery of NATO Emerging and Disruptive Technology second report, Chair of Working Group on Emerging and Disruptive Technologies, NATO: Covering novel investment models for innovation across the membership
D. Chana, A.L. Burnett “Latent Cybersecurity Implications of Covid-19” in Finance Digest magazine, Nov. 20. Link: https://www.financedigest.com/latent-cybersecurity-implications-of-covid-19.html
Bartolucci, S., Caccioli, F., & Vivo, P. (2020). A percolation model for the emergence of the Bitcoin Lightning Network. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 1-14.