What effect will new laws regulating financial technologies (FinTech) have on sustainable development -- and particular the sustainable development goal (SDG) scores in the developing world? In this paper, we provide the first rigorous analysis of the literature predicting how FinTech might...

New financial technologies (FinTech) may not represent a new era for sustainable development -- at least not as currently conceived. Many of the gains espoused by the UN and other cheerleaders come from rebranding the online equivalents of traditional savings, investment and tax payment...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Financial Services in Nigeria -- Chapter 3. Financial Services Providers -- Chapter 4. Financial Services Regulators -- Chapter 5. Financial Services Consumers -- Chapter 6. Financial Services Marketing -- Chapter 7. Financial Inclusion in Nigeria -- Chapter...

The Fintech Action Plan (see now also Digital Finance Strategy) and the Sustainable Finance Strategy both represent important pillars of the current EU policy agenda. Nonetheless, the two areas have been treated as separate for a long time, while they present certain common features and great...