Recognizing on one hand the importance of the MSE sector for growth and development of economies in the Pacific region and on the other, the financing constraints of the sector, we survey a group of MSEs in a Pacific island country and find that they may particularly be constrained by banks'...

FinTech, the merging of finance and modern Internet-based technology, has rapidly presented itself as a disruptor to traditional business financing, notably in the form of crowdfunding and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) lending. In this paper, we examine the determinants of the use of FinTech finance by...