The recent wave of financial innovation, particularly innovation related to the application of information and communication technologies, poses a serious challenge to the financial industry’s business model in both its banking and non-banking components. It has already revolutionised...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Two forms of the unknown -- Chapter 3. The economics of external shocks -- Chapter 4. The traditional way to do it -- Chapter 5. The real tragedy of the commons -- Chapter 6. Upgrading the system -- Chapter 7. The great leverage -- Chapter 8. Three...

In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), financial technology has been growing rapidly and is on the agenda of many policy makers. Fintech provides opportunities to deepen financial development, competition, innovation, and inclusion in the region but also creates new and only partially...

This paper examines the effects of macroeconomic policy and regulatory environment on mobile money usage. Specifically, we develop an autoregressive distributed lag model to investigate the effect of key macroeconomic variables and mobile money tax on mobile money usage in Uganda. Using monthly...