Digital technology applied to banking and financial transactions or e-finance in general has made financial services more widely available and affordable to consumers. And with appropriate and affordable technologies and applications, the financially excluded and the unserved can participate in...

Digitalisierung und damit verbundene Innovationen treiben den Strukturwandel in der Finanzwirtschaft an.Sie können den Zahlungsverkehr vielleicht sicherer, schneller und bequemer machen. Andererseits können sie zu Verwerfungen und Instabilitäten im Finanzsystem führen und Verbrauchern...

Mobile banking represents a great breakthrough in electronic banking. However due to several factors, costumers are not still completely confident in its use. In this study we contribute to the research on electronic banking adoption, in particular mobile banking acceptance, and we improve our...

In der Studie "Digital Financial Services in Africa: Beyond the Kenyan Success Story" wird erklärt, warum digitale Finanzdienstleistungen in Kenia ein Erfolg sind. Zudem werden die Herausforderungen und Chancen für die Entwicklung solcher Finanzdienste in sieben weiteren Ländern erläutert,...

The internet revolution is said to foster integration of the market for financial services, since consumers are able to shop around at all companies worldwide and firms can easily offer their services on the internet at a minimum of distribution cost. However, the European market for online...

We estimate the effect of internet penetration on retail bank margins in the euro area. Based on an adapted Baumol [1982] type contestability model, we argue that the internet has reduced sunk costs and therefore increased contestability in retail banking. We test this conjecture by estimating...

Mobile banking is growing at a remarkable speed around the world. In the process it is creating considerable uncertainty about the appropriate regulatory response to this newly emerging service. This paper sets out a framework for considering the design of regulation of mobile banking. Since it...

Even though financial innovation plays an important role in the modern economy, surprisingly there have been few empirical literatures. In developing countries, electronic banking (e-banking), for example, received relatively little attention although has been deployed for years. Indonesia...

This paper studies the role that market structure plays in affecting the diffusion of electronic banking. Electronic banking (and electronic commerce more generally) reduces the cost of performing many types of transactions for firms. The full benefits for firms from adoption, however, only...