The term “financial technology” (or FinTech) refers to the application of technology for the provision of financial services. FinTech companies are attracting the interest of both financial services users and investment firms, which see them as the future of the financial sector. This...

Trade financing inadvertently falls short to the needs of even the viable transactions from smaller firms, unmet demand expected to reach around $2.4 trillion by 2025 if effective solutions are not in place. In 2018, 57 percent of trade finance applications from firms in Central Asia Regional...

Fintech is one of the fastest growing domain. With the shift of world to digital platforms due to covid, digital transactions have gained lot of importance and attention. Big scale transaction like for buys cars to smaller once like at vegetable vendors, online order placing and food,...

Open banking (OB) empowers bank customers to share transaction data with fintechs and other banks. 49 countries have adopted OB policies. Consumer trust in fintechs predicts OB policy adoption and adoption spurs investment in fintechs. UK microdata shows that OB enables: i) consumers to access...

This study investigates whether and how FinTech influences retail banking and the effectiveness of monetary policy transmission, with a focus on the competition between FinTech companies and banks in the deposit market. Using proprietary data from a leading Chinese FinTech company, we study a...

There has been a great deal of interest recently in understanding the potential role of fintech firms in expanding credit access to the underbanked and credit-constrained consumers. We explore the supply side of fintech credit, focusing on unsecured personal loans and mortgage loans. We...

This article evaluates the sandbox approach as a regulatory answer to the challenges financial technology brings to finance and social relations. Taking fintech as a sociotechnological phenomenon embedded in discourses of solutionism and innovation, we show that the regulatory sandbox accepts...

We examine the impact of transaction failures on the working of a biometric-enabled payment system introduced in India to facilitate banking by the poor. On average, nearly one-third of transactions fail. However, the proportion of failures decline steeply with user experience. The usage of the...

This paper identifies the science of governance as a crucial blind spot for risk managers, company directors, regulators and law makers. There is little evidence that law-makers, corporate governance reformers or risk managers apply the science of governance identified 60 years ago. As a result,...