📗 Libro en inglés FINANCIAL SOCIAL INNOVATIONS

This book helps make sense of the emerging and established social innovations that have disrupted and are disrupting the world of finance Written in an engaging style this book offers a systematic study of social innovation in the financial services It introduces the fundamental concepts of financial social innovations FINSIs places them in the context of the broader literature and provides a new framework for understanding and organising these innovations The book applies the framework to seven existing FINSIs to illustrate their important components and explore their benefits as well as the more negative or harmful aspects to society These seven FINSIs are microfinance peer to peer P2P lending crowdfunding mobile banking impact investing digital cryptocurrencies and social impact bonds The easy to follow framework will help to ground the reader s understanding of FINSIs as the existing ones evolve and new ones are developed This book is ideal for courses on social innovation social entrepreneurship and financial innovation in departments of business economics social sciences and political science