The years following the 2008 financial crisis have been characterized by the emergence of new financial service providers, so-called fintech. The term is defined and understood differently in the literature. There is an agreement that fintech is composed of the words "financial" and...

Fintech Dictionary - What is a blockchain framework? What is crowdlending or an ICO? The Fintech Dictionary helps readers in clarifying key terms that have emerged in the vivid field of financial technology (fintech). It links keywords from banking and insurance, from information technology as...

Usually screening in microcredit is a very opaque process, because borrowers seldom have verifiable information or collateral. We explore the relationship between traditional screening variables and a new screening variable (Job Experience) for a Brazilian fintech microcredit firm. Unlike...

Motivated by the world-wide surge of FinTech lending, we analyze the implications of lender' 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...

The period since the global financial crisis of 2008 has been characterized by the emergence of a broad set of tech-driven financial companies ( "fintech" companies), acting in parallel with traditional banking services. Although the new players are ramping up competition, pushing digital...