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
AQAI Capital
Applied Quantitative Artificial Intelligence
Applications Invited
Scopus Publications
Scopus Publications
Andrei Dragos Popescu and Cristi Marcel Spulbar
IGI Global
Andrei Dragos Popescu
IGI Global
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the value chains for all major business sectors, with a great impact on the way we interact, socialize, transact, and trust the systems that we use on a daily basis. The magnitude of this major health crisis imposed a new level of digitalization, to which everyone needed to adapt, with great costs in terms of social, psychological, political, and economic transformation. In order to adapt in a new digital environment, imposed by the pandemic, we witnessed the adoption of decentralized ecosystems and technologies. One of the technologies that stood as foundation for this decentralization movement is blockchain. The first adaptations for blockchain technology happened within the financial services, with the introduction of the financial digital assets or crypto assets. This created the base for concepts like decentralized finance (DeFi), Web 3.0, and the metaverse. This chapter will assess the frontier of financial digital assets, which has emerged and developed the perfect infrastructure for scalability, efficiency, and transparency.