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
The financial digital assets frontier: The bridge between the past and the future Andrei Dragos Popescu Handbook of Research on Global Networking Post Covid 19, 2022 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.
RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
Financial digital assets and the financial risk modeling of portfolio investments A Popescu, C Spulbar IGI Global Scientific Publishing , 2025 2025 Citations: 3
INTERNAL MANAGERIAL CONTROL AND INTERNAL AUDIT IN CRISIS MANAGEMENT: LESSONS FROM THE PANDEMIC NA NEACSU, A POPESCU OVIDIUS UNIVERSITY ANNALS. ECONOMIC SCIENCES SERIES Учредители … , 2024 2024
Transforming text: Machine learning language models in AI-language generation J Brown, A Popescu, A Sokolov Innovative Computer Sciences Journal 10 (1), 1-9 , 2024 2024 Citations: 2
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 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 2023 Citations: 1
THE DYNAMICS OF TRADITIONAL FINANCIAL MARKETS AND THE CORRELATION WITH THE FINANCIAL DIGITAL MARKETS AD Popescu ECOTREND 2022 19, 130-132 , 2022 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 2022 Citations: 2
The financial digital assets frontier: The bridge between the past and the future AD Popescu Handbook of research on global networking post COVID-19, 189-209 , 2022 2022 Citations: 7
Efficient frontier in portfolios containing stock market and financial digital assets AD Popescu Revista de Științe Politice. Revue Des Sciences Politiques, 229-240 , 2022 2022 Citations: 4
Understanding FinTech and decentralized finance (DeFi) for financial inclusion AD Popescu FinTech development for financial inclusiveness, 1-13 , 2022 2022 Citations: 25
Assessing Portfolio Risks Involving Bitcoin and Ethereum Using Vector Autoregressive Model AD Popescu Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series 21 (2), 1101-1109 , 2021 2021
Central Banks Digital Currency - Opportunities and Innovation AD Popescu “Ovidius” University Annals, Economic Sciences Series 21 (Issue 1 /2021 … , 2021 2021 Citations: 10
Macroeconomic Forces that influence Alternative Assets Pricing P Andrei-Dragos Management Strategies 52 (2), 52-60 , 2021 2021
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) – Innovation beyond the craze AD Popescu 5th International Conference on Innovation in Business, Economics … , 2021 2021 Citations: 219
Alternative Investments confidence amid COVID-19 Pandemic AD POPESCU 6 Emerging Trends and Approaches in Knowledge based Economy - Creative … , 2020 2020 Citations: 2
Financial Technology (FinTech) as a Driver for Financial Digital Assets AD Popescu Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series 20 (2), 1055-1059 , 2020 2020 Citations: 9
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 2020 Citations: 4
Transforming Capital Markets by means of Financial Digital Assets AD Popescu Revista de Stiinte Politice, 108-119 , 2020 2020 Citations: 8
Transitions and Concepts within Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Space AD Popescu Research Terminals In The Social Sciences , 2020 2020 Citations: 35
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) – The Lego of Finance AD Popescu Social Sciences and Education Research Review 7 (1), 321-349 , 2020 2020 Citations: 135
MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) – Innovation beyond the craze AD Popescu 5th International Conference on Innovation in Business, Economics … , 2021 2021 Citations: 219
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) – The Lego of Finance AD Popescu Social Sciences and Education Research Review 7 (1), 321-349 , 2020 2020 Citations: 135
Empowering Financial Inclusion through FinTech AD Popescu Social Sciences and Education Research Review 6 (2), 198-215 , 2019 2019 Citations: 54
Transitions and Concepts within Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Space AD Popescu Research Terminals In The Social Sciences , 2020 2020 Citations: 35
Understanding FinTech and decentralized finance (DeFi) for financial inclusion AD Popescu FinTech development for financial inclusiveness, 1-13 , 2022 2022 Citations: 25
Central Banks Digital Currency - Opportunities and Innovation AD Popescu “Ovidius” University Annals, Economic Sciences Series 21 (Issue 1 /2021 … , 2021 2021 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 2020 Citations: 9
Transforming Capital Markets by means of Financial Digital Assets AD Popescu Revista de Stiinte Politice, 108-119 , 2020 2020 Citations: 8
The financial digital assets frontier: The bridge between the past and the future AD Popescu Handbook of research on global networking post COVID-19, 189-209 , 2022 2022 Citations: 7
The Value of Data from an Artificial Intelligence Perspective AD POPESCU Annals of the University of Craiova for Journalism, Communication and … , 2019 2019 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 2022 Citations: 4
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 2020 Citations: 4
Financial digital assets and the financial risk modeling of portfolio investments A Popescu, C Spulbar IGI Global Scientific Publishing , 2025 2025 Citations: 3
Transforming text: Machine learning language models in AI-language generation J Brown, A Popescu, A Sokolov Innovative Computer Sciences Journal 10 (1), 1-9 , 2024 2024 Citations: 2
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 2022 Citations: 2
Alternative Investments confidence amid COVID-19 Pandemic AD POPESCU 6 Emerging Trends and Approaches in Knowledge based Economy - Creative … , 2020 2020 Citations: 2
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 2023 Citations: 1
INTERNAL MANAGERIAL CONTROL AND INTERNAL AUDIT IN CRISIS MANAGEMENT: LESSONS FROM THE PANDEMIC NA NEACSU, A POPESCU OVIDIUS UNIVERSITY ANNALS. ECONOMIC SCIENCES SERIES Учредители … , 2024 2024
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 2023
THE DYNAMICS OF TRADITIONAL FINANCIAL MARKETS AND THE CORRELATION WITH THE FINANCIAL DIGITAL MARKETS AD Popescu ECOTREND 2022 19, 130-132 , 2022 2022
