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This book provides innovative solutions to fundamental problems in finance, such as the valuation of bond and equity, the pricing of debt, equity and total asset, the determination of optimal capital structure, etc., which are unsolved or poor-solved so far.The solutions in this book all have the following features:Based on essential assumptions in line with reality, the final solutions are analytical solutions with closed-form models, the forms and variables of the models are determined by strict and objective logic processes rather than chosen or presumed subjectively, such as the new growth model for stock valuation, the new CAPM accounting for total risk rather than only systematic risk, the real solution to optimal capital structure based on the trade-off between tax shield and bankruptcy cost. In addition, these basic solutions or models are adjusted easily to various application scenarios.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the development and status of fintech in China. Occupying core position in fintech development, big data takes on stronger superiority and application value. Meanwhile, blockchain and other technological innovations, which are used to serve data, greatly promote the growth of fintech industry. Furthermore, not only the benefits are illustrated by the authors, but also the financial risks and noise caused by fintech and big data are discussed. By using both academic knowledge and newest real cases in China, this timely book will appeal to practitioners, academics, and policy makers.

This book starts from the application of technologies in financial institutions and financial regulators inChina, and defines the concept and connotation of FinTech and SupTech in the form of topics,analyses the main problems in the development process, and discusses in depth the futuredevelopment and regulatory tendency of FinTech and SupTech.In recent years, with the in-depth application and cross-domain integration of information technologyin the financial world, FinTech has rapidly developed and has been widely applied, whichbrings us an important enlightenment: technical factors will bring fundamental changes forthe development of the modern financial industry. While improving financial efficiency, it hasan impact on the core financial problems such as information matching and mutual trustsolving, making it urgent to improve financial supervision capacity and regulatory efficiencythrough information technology to effectively guarantee financial security. At present, manyChinese financial institutions have applied technologies to their daily operations andmanagement, such as accurate customer identification, enhanced process tracking, intelligentmarketing, and product process transformation, so as to simplify financial service processesand shorten service cycles. Meanwhile, the financial regulators in China, such as PBOC,CBIRC, CSRC, have also applied technologies to the area of financial regulation, in order toreduce the cost of regulation, and promote the efficiency and effectiveness of regulation.In General, this book both pays attention to practical application and theoretical, which is a usefulreference book for theoretical research and practical work, and also helps readers tounderstand the application of technologies in financial institutions and financial regulators inChina.