Bitcoin and Mobile Payments

Part I. Institutional Strategies and Economic Background

1. The Regulatory Machine: An Institutional Approach to Innovative Payments in Europe
Gino Giambelluca, Paola Masi

2. Economic Issues on M-Payments and Bitcoin
Gianni Bonaiuti

Part II. The Framework: A European and Comparative Outline

3. Bit by Bit: Assessing the Legal Nature of Virtual Currencies
Noah Vardi

4. Mobilizing Payments Within the European Union Framework: A Legal Analysis
Gabriella Gimigliano

5. A Fuzzy Set in the Legal Domain: Bitcoins According to US Legal Formants
Andrea Borroni

6. M-Payments: How Much Regulation Is Appropriate? Learning from the Global Experience
Elisabetta Cervone

Part III. The Challenges

7. Security Issues of New Innovative Payments and Their Regulatory Challenges
Safari Kasiyanto

8. EU Data Protection and Future Payment Services
Gloria González Fuster

9. The Classification of Virtual Currencies and Mobile Payments in Terms of the Old and New European Anti-Money Laundering Frameworks
Carolin Kaiser

10. Virtual Currencies, M-Payments and VAT: Ready for the Future?
Redmar A. Wolf

11. Mobile Payments and Merger Regulation: A Case Law Analysis
Daniele D’Alvia

Part IV. Conclusions

12. Mobile Payments and Bitcoin: Concluding Reflections on the Digital Upheaval in Payments
Benjamin Geva

Keywords: Finance, Financial Services, Investments and Securities, Financial Engineering, Capital Markets, European Union Politics