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Digital financial services have been a key driver of financial inclusion in recent years. While there is evidence that financial inclusion through traditional services has a positive impact on economic growth, do the same results carry over for digital financial inclusion? What drives digital...
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digital payments and the entry of a range of competitors including fintech and bigtech firms …
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This study analyzes the drivers of the use of formal vs. informal financial services in emerging and developing countries using the 2017 Global FINDEX data. In particular, we investigate whether individuals' choice of financial services correlates with macro-financial and macro-structural...
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financial inclusion. There is no clear evidence that fintech developments have supported greater financial inclusion in LAC … fintech. However, fintech development seems to have accelerated in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and with the support of …
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Recent advances in digital technology and big data have allowed FinTech (financial technology) lending to emerge as a …) methods that lie at the heart of FinTech credit have remained largely a black box for the nontechnical audience. This paper … challenges in credit risk analysis. FinTech credit has the potential to enhance financial inclusion and outperform traditional …
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This paper analyzes the potential for fintech to facilitate cheaper and more efficient remittances, and to enhance … alliances between traditional and fintech operators, digital remittances can further reduce transaction costs and reach those … remote, low-income households in a timely and secure manner. A meaningful expansion of fintech remittances necessitates an …
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The rapid uptake of mobile money in recent years has generated new data needs and growing interest in understanding its impact on broad money. This paper reviews mobile money trends using mobile money data from the Financial Access Survey (FAS) and examines the statistical treatment of mobile...
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across regions, income levels, and gender, among others. It points out that structural, as well as policy-related, factors …
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Interest rate caps, despite their intended objective of broadening financial inclusion, can have undesirable effects on financial inclusion under certain conditions. This paper examines the effect of microfinance-loan interest rate caps on financial inclusion in Cambodia. Based on a...
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In this paper we study how competition and financial soundness affect financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). We use detailed individual-level survey data, combined with key country-level indicators of bank competition and financial soundness, to study the effect on the adoption of...
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