We examine how the development of the digital infrastructure known as the 'India Stack'-including an interoperable … of financial services. While each individual component of the India Stack is important, we argue that its key overarching … synergies across the layers of the Stack. Until recently, a large share of India's population lacked access to formal banking …

be associated with greater resort to informal financial services compared with formal, bank-based access. This highlights …

empirical analysis, we build a parsimonious model of bank screening and lending that predicts that IT in banking can spur …

financial inclusion in Cambodia. Based on a difference-in-difference analysis on bank and microfinance supervisory data, results …

We explore the global footprint of Chinese banks and compare it with that of other bank nationalities. Chinese banks … across all bank nationalities, we find that larger distances deter cross-border bank lending to EMDEs more than to AEs. For …

We examine how bank competition in the run-up to the 2007-2009 crisis affects banks' systemic risk during the crisis …. We then investigate whether this effect is influenced by two key bank characteristics: securitization and bank capital …. Using a sample of the largest listed banks from 15 countries, we find that greater market power at the bank level and higher …

orientation, pressures on funding models and entity structures could affect the efficiency of capital flows through the bank …

). 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 several financial products (bank accounts, credit and debit cards …, and bank loans). We find that more competition tends to increase the probability of access to these financial products. On …