The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of the financial technology (fintech) services provided by banks on their performance. We also investigate the influence of fintech firms' growth (as competitor firms) on banks' financial performance. We extend our analysis to investigate the...

Mehr als die Hälfte der Kreise und kreisfreien Städte Deutschlands wird bis 2020 von Einwohnerverlusten und Überalterung betroffen sein. Die Perspektive, die sich hieraus für Finanzdienstleister ergibt, hängt davon ab, ob diese frei beweglich oder lokal gebunden sind. Die frei beweglichen...

Our aim is to empirically assess differences in behaviour and performance of European cooperative and commercial banks in a low interest rate environment. We employ dynamic panel data methods to assess the relative performance of both ownership structures based on a data set of nearly 1,000...

The urgency of estimating the impact of climate risks on the financial system is increasingly recognized among scholars and practitioners. By adopting a network approach to financial dependencies, we look at how climate policy risk might propagate through the financial system. We develop a...

Using a unique district-level panel data set, we investigate the effect of banking system penetration on financial inclusion in Ghana. To purge potential endogeneity bias in the underlying relationship, we exploit a change in the policy environment of the Ghanaian banking system to instrument...

Net trading income is an important but volatile source of income for many euro area banks, highly sensitive to changes in financial market conditions. Using a representative sample of European banks, we study the distribution of net trading income (normalized by total assets) conditional to...

The banking services play an important role in the development of the country as increase in the banking services led overall growth of the economy. Generally customers have different opinion about the banking services offered by their banks. In this study the T-test, Mean, Standard deviation...

This paper discusses the business correspondent (BC)-agent banking model in India against the backdrop of community-based rural livelihood programs, its relevance in facilitating financial inclusion in underserved rural geographies, and its potential to address the gender gap in financial...