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...

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...

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...

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 derive the Green's function for the Black-Scholes partial differential equation with time-varying coefficients and time-dependent boundary conditions. We provide a thorough discussion of its implementation within a pricing algorithm that also accommodates American style options. Greeks can be...

High microcredit interest rates cause fierce debates among practitioners, scholars and even the general public. To objectify these discussions, this article investigates determinants of microcredit interest rates by using a worldwide data set of 712 microfinance institutions (MFIs). We examine...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the main motives of investors in allocating their money in a socially responsible (SR) way. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on primary data collected in a survey using an online questionnaire. This paper applies tests for...

The aim of this paper is to expand the methodological spectrum of socially responsible investing by introducing stochastic sustainability returns into safety first models for portfolio choice. We provide a foundation of the notion of sustainability in portfolio theory and establish a general...