Background: Supply chain finance (SCF) is a series of financial solutions provided by financial institutions to suppliers and customers facing demands on their working capital. As a systematic arrangement, SCF utilizes the authenticity of the trade between (SMEs) and their 'counterparties',...

Using 2004--2009 firm-level microdata for enterprises in China's ethnic areas, we investigate whether trade credit really works as an alternative external financing source. We find statistical evidence that trade credit is positively correlated with enterprise productivity; the result continues...

Strengthening the combination of technology and finance can significantly promote the development of economy and society. Urbanization is a crucial standard to measure the economic and social development of a country and region, and urban regional planning based on science and technology finance...

In many real world applications, decisions are usually made by collecting and judging information from multiple different data sources. Let us take the stock market as an example. We never make our decision based on just one single piece of advice, but always rely on a collection of information,...