This book investigates the recent applications of blockchain technology in financial services, energy sector, and summarizes regulatory responses, to set the scene for future work on corporate governance.

This edited book highlights the current governance framework for the blockchain and its development as a self-governing framework. It discusses blockchain technology's effectiveness in developing solutions for supply chains, trade finance, and banking. Moreover, it shows how banking and financial institutions are the major beneficiaries of this decentralized technology. Furthermore, the book outlines the link between company governance theories, regulatory, ethical, and social controls, and blockchain adoption. It also investigates the recent applications of blockchain technology in financial services, the health sector, and the energy sector.

Audience

The book is specially designed for researchers, industrialists, engineers, graduate students, and policymakers, who aspire to learn, discuss, and carry out further research into the opportunities offered by blockchain and the possible ways of regulating it.