Crowdfunding, a novel form of financing, has seen massive growth over the last few years. Under crowdfunding, a large number of small households offers small loans to a firm. But if some threshold is missed, the firm cannot draw the loans. We construct a model to argue that this mechanism can be...

To what extent have U.S. banks adopted the originate-to-distribute model in their corporate lending business? According to our findings, banks have increasingly used the originate-to-distribute model in their term-loan business since the early 1990s. However, they have continued to rely on the...

We investigate whether the securitization of corporate loans affected banks' lending standards. We find that during the boom years of the CLO business, loans sold to CLOs at the time of their origination underperform matched unsecuritized loans originated by the same bank. This finding is robust...

The aim of the paper is to show how studying terms in collocations help to teach and to learn terms of Finance and Banking. The author aims to show how great the difference of collocational ability is between terms that are used in professional discourse and those used in nonprofessional one. In...

Notwithstanding the emergence of FinTech startups in the financial services industry, most of these companies face significant difficulties in breaking even and surviving. This study examines the main managerial, institutional, and financial drivers of FinTech profitability and the time it takes...

We document that finance companies and FinTech Lenders increased lending to small businesses after the 2008 financial crisis. We show that most of the increase substituted for a reduction in lending by banks. In counties where banks had a larger market share before the crisis, finance companies...

We provide evidence that credit lines offer liquidity insurance to borrowers. Borrowers are able toextensively use their credit lines in recessions and ahead of credit line cuts. In fact drawdowns andchanges in drawdowns predict internal credit rating downgrades and credit line cuts,...

Fintech lending to small businesses is growing rapidly in the United States, but the industry remains largely unregulated. In this study, I examine borrower outcomes when a borrower states that they are using credit from a fintech for small business purposes; I subsequently examine the...

This study examines the role of Non-Bank Financial Services for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises finance including venture capital, financial leasing, factoring and capital market. It explains the influence of policies, regulatory frameworks and institutional setups along with Egyptian...

For the last decade economists have been preoccupied with the decline in bank financing to small businesses and entrepreneurs. This effort has produced a better understanding of the obstacles to external financing. We examine the market and policy instruments that in some sense encourage more...