Banks are unique in that they combine the production of liquid claims with loans. They can replicate most of what FinTech firms can do, but FinTech firms benefit from an uneven playing field in that they are less regulated than banks. The uneven playing field enables non-bank FinTech firms to...

Over the past two decades, many low-income developing countries have substantially increased openness towards external financing and have received large capital inflows. Using bank-level micro data, this paper finds that capital inflows have been associated with financial deepening through...

Einleitung -- Maschine contrá Mensch – Machen Vergleichsportale den Beruf des Finanz- und Vermögensberaters überflüssig? -- Gemeinsam statt einsam! -- Generationenkonflikt -- Her mit dem Fach Finanzwissen! Finanzen in die Schule! -- Frauen wo seid Ihr? Kommt in den Finanzvertrieb! --...

Financial innovation in the form of new delivery channels, products, and providers has helped push out the frontier of access to finance and thus increase the bankable and banked population. Mobile money and crowdfunding platforms are prime examples for this. The same financial innovation has...

The Financial Services industry is at an innovations crossroads where Big Data, digital disruption and technology have splintered the dominant design of how products are delivered and how current processes and people function. Risks abound such as ‘What types of innovation will dominate',...

The paper aims at the identification and analysis of major issues facing financial sector supervision resulting from the digitalization of financial markets and the digitalization of supervisory architecture with the tool box applied. It is based on the desk research using foremostly industrial...

The “too big to fail” institutions are a widespread concern, especially in the financial world. Their failure can create severe economic downturns and social turmoil. In past bank failures, governments intervened with public funds to save such institutions from collapse to avoid economic...