2026 March - 26 articles
This study examines the role of volatility mean reversion in option pricing and evaluates the performance of commonly used volatility estimators within a broad market context. Using a comprehensive dataset of end-of-day option chains for the 100 most...
This study investigates how financial technology (FinTech) contributes to economic growth, focusing on whether it acts primarily as a mediator or a moderator within the finance–growth nexus. A composite FinTech index is constructed using Princi...
The present article examines the pioneering case of blockchain adoption in local government by the City of Lugano and discusses how Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) may support institutional innovation beyond pilot experimentation. The Swiss munic...
This study empirically investigates the performance of Elastic Machine Learning, an industrial, unsupervised anomaly detection tool, in the identification of fraudulent behavior in banking transactions. Using AI-generated datasets that were designed...
Green FinTech involves facilitating sustainable payments, banking, and investment; nevertheless, it is subject to consumer trust and perceptions of ‘green’ value. The literature on this topic is fragmented, with information systems litera...
Amidst the escalating geopolitical fragmentation of the global financial system, divergent stablecoin architectures are emerging. This study employs Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and introduces a formalized ‘Geopolitical Stablecoin&rsq...
As cryptocurrencies evolve from niche assets to systemic financial components, the banking sector faces a strategic dilemma: displacement or adaptation. Using 27,510 bank–year observations from 2014 to 2023 across thirty-two economies, predomin...
This paper examines the relationship between traditional gold (XAU) and its tokenized counterparts (PAXG and XAUT), providing an empirical assessment of how digital representations of real-world assets align with their underlying benchmarks. Using mu...
This study examines the impact of corporate governance on sustainability-related risk in Indian banks across crisis and post-crisis periods. Using data from 37 public and private banks between 2006 and 2018, it analyzes how board characteristics infl...
Nowadays, the European economy faces significant global challenges that threaten the continuity of economic growth, especially in the German manufacturing sector, which is under strain from financial turmoil, resulting in numerous layoffs and firm cl...
Quantum computing threatens the security foundations of global financial systems, exposing long-lived data and signed digital assets to “harvest-now, decrypt-later” attacks. While the timeline for cryptographically relevant quantum comput...
Stock price forecasting remains challenging due to the non-linear, noisy, and non-stationary nature of financial time series. Although LSTMs and Transformer-based models have improved sequential modeling, their ability to scale efficiently to long fi...
Asia presently houses some of the top and dynamic economies in the world. These economies have also experienced high fintech adoption in their banking sectors. This paper examines the impact of fintech adoption and integration on the efficiency and s...
Extreme movements in financial time series pose challenges for risk management and forecasting, particularly when their timing is irregular and difficult to anticipate. This study aims to develop a probabilistic framework for detecting and predicting...
We examine whether aggregate “music mood” derived from globally popular songs can help forecast primary equity issuance. We build a Friday-anchored weekly panel that merges SEC EDGAR counts of priced Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) with f...
Robo-advisors are evolving fintech solutions that ask potential clients about their investment purpose and time horizon and then offer investment strategies to reach different goals. This study aims to build on prior research and gain insights into t...
Road infrastructure underpins Nigeria’s economic competitiveness, yet Public–Private Partnership (PPP) performance is constrained not by inadequate legislation but by persistent weaknesses in enforcement and governance. Transparency defic...
Credit card fraud detection remains a critical challenge for financial institutions, particularly due to extreme class imbalance and the continuously evolving nature of fraudulent behavior. This study investigates two complementary approaches: anomal...
This study investigates how strategic foresight can enhance FinTech governance and policy resilience in emerging economies, using Kuwait as an illustrative case. It aims to identify which foresight interventions should be prioritized across alternati...
Research on users’ switching intentions in peer-to-peer (P2P) mobile payment systems, particularly in developing markets, remains limited. This study examines how two satisfaction dimensions, transaction-based satisfaction and experience-based...
This study investigates the influence of access to mobile cashless technology on enterprise continuity intention and cash flow management skills. It also explores the influence of cashless technology, knowledge, and experience on enterprise continuit...
This study evaluates the early impact of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) on key financial indicators in The Bahamas, focusing on the introduction of the SandDollar—the world’s first fully implemented retail CBDC. Using the Synthet...
Prediction of stock closing price plays a critical role in financial planning, risk management, and informed investment decision-making. In this study, we propose a novel model that synergistically amalgamates Bidirectional GRU (BiGRU) with three com...
Background: Fintech companies have revolutionized the financial services industry in India in recent years. This is especially true for the growth of digital payment methods. India’s unbanked are being introduced to banking by fintech companies...
The article presents a blockchain-based architecture for decentralized electricity trading that tokenizes energy delivery rights and cash-flows. Energy Attribute Certificates (EACs) are implemented as NFTs, while buy/sell orders are encoded as ERC-11...
This paper examines the combination of traditional banking credit assessment techniques with contemporary internal sales accounting systems in Kazakhstan, aiming to augment the precision and resilience of financial assessments pertaining to SMEs. The...
