Andrei-Dragos Popescu

@scx.holdings

University of Craiova
SCX Holdings

PhD, Angel Investor and a Vision-driven entrepreneur/executive with career-long record of business growth and innovation.

Andrei helped in building great companies in Singapore, Austria, Italy and Romania with extraordinary people, while seeking continuous intellectual stimulation through a broad set of experiences in dynamic, challenging, and high-intensity environments. He has been engaged on helping organizations that evolve in challenging markets to break down the barriers that prevent them from reaching their potential, which operate in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, China and Asia-Pacific.

Andrei is an active participant in the FinTech sphere, Crypto & Alternative Assets Class Ecosystems and the Blockchain/DLT communities in Southeast Asia, Europe and the USA; who attends meetups regularly, speaks at the conferences and advises on Blockchain/DLT/IoT/AI/ML/Alternative Investments & FinTech Projects.

EDUCATION

PhD - Finance

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Business and International Management, Strategy and Management, Management of Technology and Innovation

FUTURE PROJECTS

290

Scholar Citations

Scholar h-index

Scholar i10-index

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

DYNAMIC INTERDEPENDENCE BETWEEN ASSET CLASSES: A SPECTRAL CO-CLUSTERING AND VAR ANALYSIS
AD Popescu, C Spulbar
Social Sciences and Education Research Review 10 (1), 269-283 2023

FINANCIAL DIGITAL ASSETS AND THEIR INTERACTIONS WITH THE TRADITIONAL FINANCIAL MARKETS: A DSGE ANALYSIS
AD Popescu, C Spulbar
Social Sciences and Education Research Review 10 (1), 284-314 2023

The Financial Digital Assets Frontier: The Bridge Between the Past and the Future
AD Popescu
Research Anthology on Virtual Environments and Building the Metaverse, 1-21 2023

THE DYNAMICS OF TRADITIONAL FINANCIAL MARKETS AND THE CORRELATION WITH THE FINANCIAL DIGITAL MARKETS
AD Popescu
ECOTREND 2022 19, 130-132 2022

The Impact of Returns and Influence of Crypto Assets on Different Asset Classes
AD Popescu, CM Spulbar
Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series 22 (1), 969-980 2022

Efficient frontier in portfolios containing stock market and financial digital assets
AD Popescu
Revista de Științe Politice. Revue Des Sciences Politiques, 229-240 2022

Understanding fintech and decentralized finance (defi) for financial inclusion
AD Popescu
FinTech Development for Financial Inclusiveness, 1-13 2022

Assessing Portfolio Risks Involving Bitcoin and Ethereum Using Vector Autoregressive Model
AD Popescu
Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series 21 (2), 1101-1109 2021

Central Banks Digital Currency - Opportunities and Innovation
AD Popescu
“Ovidius” University Annals, Economic Sciences Series 21 (Issue 1 /2021 2021

Macroeconomic Forces that influence Alternative Assets Pricing
P Andrei-Dragos
Management Strategies 52 (2), 52-60 2021

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) – Innovation beyond the craze
AD Popescu
5th International Conference on Innovation in Business, Economics 2021

Alternative Investments confidence amid COVID-19 Pandemic
AD POPESCU
6 Emerging Trends and Approaches in Knowledge based Economy - Creative 2020

Financial Technology (FinTech) as a Driver for Financial Digital Assets
AD Popescu
Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series 20 (2), 1055-1059 2020

Acacia Protocol – A Proposal of Structured Products for and within the Decentralized Finance Ecosystem
TM Grant, AD Popescu, RG Stăuceanu, DV Voinea
Social Sciences and Education Research Review Volume 7, Issue 1, 2020, 362 2020

Transforming Capital Markets by means of Financial Digital Assets
AD Popescu
Revista de Stiinte Politice, 108-119 2020

Transitions and Concepts within Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Space
AD Popescu
Research Terminals In The Social Sciences 2020

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) – The Lego of Finance
AD Popescu
Social Sciences and Education Research Review 7 (1), 321-349 2020

The Value of Data from an Artificial Intelligence Perspective
AD POPESCU
Annals of the University of Craiova for Journalism, Communication and 2019

Empowering Financial Inclusion through FinTech
AD Popescu
Social Sciences and Education Research Review 6 (2), 198-215 2019

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) – Innovation beyond the craze
AD Popescu
5th International Conference on Innovation in Business, Economics 2021
Citations: 117

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) – The Lego of Finance
AD Popescu
Social Sciences and Education Research Review 7 (1), 321-349 2020
Citations: 82

Empowering Financial Inclusion through FinTech
AD Popescu
Social Sciences and Education Research Review 6 (2), 198-215 2019
Citations: 27

Transitions and Concepts within Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Space
AD Popescu
Research Terminals In The Social Sciences 2020
Citations: 25

Understanding fintech and decentralized finance (defi) for financial inclusion
AD Popescu
FinTech Development for Financial Inclusiveness, 1-13 2022
Citations: 10

Financial Technology (FinTech) as a Driver for Financial Digital Assets
AD Popescu
Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series 20 (2), 1055-1059 2020
Citations: 6

Transforming Capital Markets by means of Financial Digital Assets
AD Popescu
Revista de Stiinte Politice, 108-119 2020
Citations: 6

Efficient frontier in portfolios containing stock market and financial digital assets
AD Popescu
Revista de Științe Politice. Revue Des Sciences Politiques, 229-240 2022
Citations: 4

The Value of Data from an Artificial Intelligence Perspective
AD POPESCU
Annals of the University of Craiova for Journalism, Communication and 2019
Citations: 4

Central Banks Digital Currency - Opportunities and Innovation
AD Popescu
“Ovidius” University Annals, Economic Sciences Series 21 (Issue 1 /2021 2021
Citations: 3

The Financial Digital Assets Frontier: The Bridge Between the Past and the Future
AD Popescu
Research Anthology on Virtual Environments and Building the Metaverse, 1-21 2023
Citations: 2