Purpose: The purpose of this study is to define FinTech, differentiating it from financial technology and use the definition to develop an industry framework. Design/methodology/approach: Using the existing literature on FinTech and incorporating these contributions into a traditional financial...

Purpose – The authors examine whether the stronger information content of chief financial officer (CFO) insider trading relative to that of chief executive officers (CEOs) results from a different willingness to exploit the information asymmetry that exists between executives and outside...

We examine whether security selection is influenced by the name letter effect--a psychological predisposition to select items that start with leading own name letters. Two sets of tests reveal evidence that the name letter effect influences investors' security selection decisions. First, breadth...