In this paper, we examine in a systematic manner how investors react to the sentiment of instant ESG news. Instead of acquiring proprietary ESG news or events datasets directly from specific ESG data providers, we extract fresh ESG news directly from a plethora of raw news articles. We showcase...

The FinTech market in Germany is a dynamic and growing field that is difficult to observe in its entirety. This report provides a hand-collected market overview of the FinTech market in Germany, as well as an application case in terms of volume estimates for the financing and asset management...

Vor vier Jahren wurden im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums der Finanzen erstmals Daten zu den Marktvolumina deutscher FinTech-Unternehmen für den Zeitraum von 2007 bis 2015 erhoben und eine Prognose für die zukünftige Marktentwicklung erstellt. Gregor Dorfleitner, Universität Regensburg, Lars...

This article analyzes how the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has affected the privacy practices of FinTech firms. We study the content of 308 privacy statements respectively before and after the GDPR became binding. Using textual analysis methods, we find that the readability of the...

We investigate the asset pricing implications of the greenness of bonds. To estimate a green-pricing effect, we determine the 'green bond premium' as the difference between the yields of matched conventional and green-labeled bonds. On a cross-sectional average, green bonds experience a...

We extend risk-value models for valuing streams of risky cash flows by establishing the well-known concept of terminal value in this context. For a constant growth assumption we are able to derive upper and lower bounds for the terminal value in the case of a translation-invariant and in the...

Purpose: This study seeks to identify the factors that are associated with the digital transformation of microfinance institutions (MFIs). Design/methodology/approach: The study employs probit models to investigate the likelihood of integrating digital solutions by MFIs and Heckman models for...

We provide evidence of the exogenous impact of environmental and social performance components on credit ratings in North America, Europe, and Asia. In particular, the product innovation dimension is clearly identified as being the dominating driver of credit ratings within the environmental...