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Blockchain and artificial intelligence are perhaps the two most significant disruptive technologies this century and both will significantly rewire the world of global financial markets and the world in which we live. While blockchain offers a number of significant advantages over traditional forms of finance including lower cost and massive increases in operational efficiencies of traded markets, property records and a whole host of transaction processes, artificial intelligence is moving fast from basic structured machine learning doing menial yet important big data tasks like credit card fraud detection to predictive analysis and real-time real-world risk management and investment decision making. There is still a lot of confusion in the market about cryptocurrencies, bitcoin and the underlying blockchain technology. Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence highlights the underlying technologies of blockchain and the differences between cryptocurrencies and blockchain financial applications. It explores the current AI offerings and gives a vision of the fast-moving developments in this area including the many solutions that are expected to revolutionize the way financial and commodity markets will operate in the future.

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This comprehensive book discusses traditional energy-trading markets, the impact of emissions-trading schemes and the advent of renewable-energy trading. Written by renowned energy-market expert and commentator, Professor Tom James and best-selling author Peter C. Fusaro, this book demonstrates that the forces of energy and environmental issues are linked more than ever before. The beginning of European emissions trading in 25 and the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol have accelerated efforts already underway in the U.S. and elsewhere to use market forces to remediate environmental issues. In response to its Kyoto obligations, Europe decided on a trade-and-cap emissions-trading scheme. This allows governments to regulate the aggregate amount of emissions produced by setting an overall cap but gives companies the flexibility to determine how and where the reductions are achieved. On 1 January 25, the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) came into force and introduced a new dimension to energy trading. From now on, the cost of emissions from the use of a fuel would have to be taken into account as part of the whole net cost calculation.This new dynamic in energy pricing converged and in some cases collided with energy markets. Drawing extensively on the first year of the EU ETS, this book, Energy & Emissions : Collision or Convergence? explores the developments of emissions regulation, emissions-trading schemes, and how they are interacting with energy markets across the globe.

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