We study the personal loan segment of the consumer credit market using individual loan-level data covering fintech, non-banking financial companies, and traditional banks as lenders. We show that fintech lenders dominate the small-ticket loan and provide stiff competition to non-banking...

The Stability of Islamic Finance main focus is on the question of the sources of financial instability which seems inherent in the conventional system. As a core component of this focus, the book will consider episodes of turbulence and instability in a historical context recalling the...