We study the implications of information technology (IT) in banking for financial stability, using data on US banks' IT equipment and the tech-background of their executives. We find that one standard deviation higher pre-crisis IT adoption led to 10% fewer non-performing loans during the global...

Motivated by the world-wide surge of FinTech lending, we analyze the implications of lenders' information technology adoption for financial stability. We estimate bank-level intensity of IT adoption before the global financial crisis using a novel dataset that provides information on hardware...

Banken und Vermögensverwalter stehen seit dem Ausbruch der Finanzkrise im Jahr 2009 unter grossem Druck. Nicht nur büssten Organisationen in der Finanzindustrie ein hohes Mass an Kundenvertrauen ein, sondern beklagen sich aufgrund von verschärften regulatorischen Rahmenbedingungen über...

Motivated by the world-wide surge of FinTech lending, we analyze the implications of lenders' information technology adoption for financial stability. We estimate bank-level intensity of IT adoption before the global financial crisis using a novel dataset that provides information on hardware...