businesses who already have access to bank credit. Firms use FinTech to obtain long-term unsecured loans and reduce their … increase leverage and substitute long-term bank debt with FinTech debt. Our findings suggest that FinTech allows firms to … preserve financial exibility, reduce their bank dependence and exposure to banking shocks. …

This study investigates the behavior of bank non-performing loans in the Fintech era. Using data from 35 developed … countries from 1998 to 2016, the findings show that non-performing loans are fewer in the second wave Fintech era. Also, bank …

We compare the performance of unsecured personal installment loans made by traditional bank lenders with that of … statistical noise. In 2013 and 2016, the largest bank lenders experienced the highest ratio of nonperformance, the highest … inherent credit risk, rather than by lending inefficiency. LendingClub’s performance was similar to small bank lenders as of …

Using 2013 and 2016 data, we compare the performance of unsecured consumer loans made by U.S. bank holding companies to … ratio, adjusted for statistical noise, and the minimum ratio gauges lending inefficiency. In 2013 and 2016, the largest bank … similar to the high average efficiency of the largest bank lenders - a conclusion that may not be applicable to other fintech …

markets and in areas that have fewer bank branches per capita. We also find that the portion of LendingClub loans increases in …

This paper studies how bank market power affects firm creation in innovative industries. Theoretically, I show that the … effect of bank market power is ambiguous. I exploit a 2012 policy intervention in Italy, designed to foster firm creation in … innovative industries through public bank guarantees. The policy increased firm creation in innovative industries by 50%, but the …

hampered the smooth transmission of accommodative monetary policy. Using bank level data from 2007 to 2015, we directly measure … bank in the same month for loans to small and large firms (the "Small Firm Financing Premium", SFFP). We assess the role … played by both bank and macroeconomic factors in explaining the variation in the SFFP across countries and through time. We …

This article investigates the short-term and long-term effects of bank market power on the availability of credit for … companies, and on firm investment. Our results suggest that an increase in bank market power reduces firms' credit availability …