net effect of ICT in formalization for financial activity in the banking system is consistently beneficial with positive …

banking status. Third, age of operation in excess of eight years exerts a negative impact on interest rates, regardless of … differentiation of the impact on interest rates of regulations which promote formal banking principles, credit market extension vis …

enhance banking competitiveness. The findings and results are consistent even when country, time and continental effects are …

-crisis period. Fourth, the net effect from the: pre-crisis period is lower on money supply and banking system efficiency; post …

The study assesses the how information sharing by means of mobile phones affects banking system efficiency in Africa … banking system efficiency. The following findings are established: (i) mobile phone penetration promotes banking system … efficiency in the 25th quantile and the median of banking system efficiency in low income countries while for middle income …

countries over the period 2004-2020. Design/methodology/approach - Banking concentration (BC) is measured by the assets held by … established. Banking concentration reduces women's political empowerment. Furthermore, information sharing offices (i.e. public … debate on the effects of banking concentration and information sharing in the banking sector on women's political empowerment …

) in reducing market power for financial access in the African banking industry. The empirical evidence is based on a panel …

analysis namely, banking financial services via domestic credit to private sector, and financial stability via the Z …-score values showing the tendencies of default in a country's banking structure. Regardless of the FD indicator, the results reveal … banking system. Hence, policy recommendations including the strengthening of institutional capacities among others, were …