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...
The rapid evolution of digital assets transforms cryptocurrencies into one of the most volatile and data-rich financial markets. Their nonlinear and unpredictable nature limits the effectiveness of traditional forecasting models, motivating the use o...
This study develops a comprehensive competitiveness model for Indonesia’s WealthTech ecosystem by integrating Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) and MICMAC analysis. The research identifies and classifies 23 interrelated variables derived f...
Purpose: The central research question of the study is how objective financial knowledge and subjective financial confidence interact and relate to digital financial behavior and the use of FinTech tools. By examining both objective knowledge refers...
Enterprises today face increasing threats from cyberattacks, supply chain disruptions, and systemic market risks, making the enhancement of organizational resilience through advanced risk management frameworks increasingly critical. Traditional appro...
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have transformed digital ownership, offering unique representations of assets such as art, collectibles, and virtual property. However, pricing NFTs remains a complex and underexplored issue. This study addresses two core q...
The rapid growth of financial technology (FinTech) has created new opportunities to promote environmentally responsible consumption. Yet, little is known about the factors that shape consumer trust in green FinTech platforms, which is crucial for the...
This study delves into the domain of corporate litigation risk, particularly through the prism of securities class actions, by leveraging financial datasets and trading metrics to broaden the scope of predictability for securities class-action litiga...
This study investigates the critical macro-level conditions that determine the success of crowdfunding platforms, a pivotal segment of the FinTech landscape. We propose a novel configurational theory to decipher how combinations of institutional, eco...
The contribution of innovation to global development and productivity is indeed very important, as it enables the creation of new products and services or the improvement of existing ones. Experience of developed economies suggests that innovations a...
This study conducts a bibliometric review of Bitcoin research in the Business and Economics domains, using VOSviewer to visualize network structures and Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers Topic (BERTopic) to derive semantically c...
The rapid digital transformation of the financial sector has driven supervisory authorities to develop new tools for engaging with fintech innovation. Among these, Innovation Hubs have become essential mechanisms for improving regulatory dialogue, in...
As Morocco aspires to position itself as a regional hub for financial innovation in Africa, its Fintech sector presents a paradox: despite a robust digital infrastructure and growing institutional support, adoption remains limited. Systemic barriers&...
Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed accounting by automating repetitive tasks and enhancing the efficiency of financial reporting. However, their implementation raises challenges related to bias,...
The environmental footprint of cryptocurrency networks, particularly the electricity-intensive Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain, has raised growing concern among policymakers, investors, and environmental organizations. This study examines how major global e...
Deep learning has transformed numerous areas of data science by achieving outstanding performance in tasks such as image recognition, speech processing, and natural language understanding. Recently, the challenges of financial forecasting—marke...
FinTech-based lending has rapidly expanded in emerging economies, offering convenience and inclusion but also raising concerns about over-indebtedness. In Indonesia, the surge of digital loans has been accompanied by growing signs of risky borrowing...
This study provides a comprehensive evaluation of five deep learning (DL) architectures—TiDE, LSTM, DeepAR, TCN, and Transformer—against the extended Heterogeneous Autoregressive (HAR) model for stock market volatility forecasting. Utiliz...
Economic disinformation causes significant harm, resulting in substantial losses for the global economy. Each year, it is estimated that around USD 78 billion is lost due to the spread of false or misleading information, with a major share stemming f...
In this study, we review recent research on how digital payment technologies (DPTs) promote financial inclusion (FI) across the world. Drawing on empirical studies from the past decade, we show that digital payment systems have helped reduce financia...
In this study, we empirically examine the determinants of fundraising success in Japan’s lending-based crowdfunding (LBCF), with a focus on the financial literacy of investors. Using 465 campaigns on the LBCF platform “Bankers” (Dec...
This study investigates the dynamic relationship between key macroeconomic indicators, specifically inflation (CPI), the Federal Funds Rate, GDP growth, unemployment, and money supply, and U.S. stock market returns, represented by the S&P 500 ind...
This study proposes a novel approach to improve the reliability of trading signals for gold market prediction by integrating technical analysis indicators, Moving Averages (MAs), MACD, and Ichimoku Cloud, with a Particle Swarm-Optimized Extreme Learn...
iFintech is termed as an Islamic alternative banking and financial services approach to that of existing, Fintech digital, Western democracies banking and financial systems. This Pakistan Islamic digital banking and financial services technologies (i...
Objective: This study investigates how artificial intelligence (AI) research relates to firm value, focusing on dominant thematic trends, theoretical foundations, and global collaboration patterns. Methods: A PRISMA-guided systematic review was condu...
Large language models have expanded their application from traditional tasks in natural language processing to several domains of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. This research studies the potential of these models for financial &ld...
Quantum technology is significantly transforming businesses, organisations, and information systems. It will have a significant impact on accounting and finance, particularly in the context of cybersecurity. It presents both opportunities and risks i...
This study introduces and evaluates stochastic models to describe Bitcoin price dynamics at different time scales, using daily data from January 2019 to December 2024 and intraday data from 20 January 2025. In the daily analysis, models based on are...
This Special Issue (Trends and New Developments in FinTech) discusses fintech trends such as the aspects of the regulation of digital activities, the implementation of technologies on reducing carbon emissions, ESG investments by FinTech, the trend t...
The rise of financial technology (FinTech) has generated substantial research on its adoption by customers and the associated implications for traditional banks. This systematic review addresses two questions: (1) What factors enable or hinder consum...
Banking has evolved from ancient times of using grain banks and temple lending to modern banking practices. The transformation of the banking sector has ensured that banks play the crucial role of facilitating faster and efficient service delivery. T...
This paper introduces a novel approach to tree modeling architecture integrated with blockchain technology, aimed at enhancing landscape spatial planning and forest monitoring systems. The primary objective is to develop a low-cost, automated tree CA...
This study addresses the critical need for accurate tourism demand (TD) forecasting in Bulgaria using economic indicators, developing robust predictive models to navigate post-pandemic market volatility. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed tourism’s...
This study investigates the impact of digitalisation and intangible investment—specifically digital skills and software adoption—on productivity in the United Kingdom’s banking sector. Software adoption is captured through banks&rsq...
The new era of FinTech services enabled the financial sector to benefit from innovative and cost-effective products via process automation, fostering a foundation for more sustainable business growth. Despite considerable research, the determinants o...
This study examines the impact of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) on the financial performance of firms listed in Germany’s DAX 40 index. Although M&As are a widely used strategic tool intended to create value through synergies and mark...
This study examines whether fintech lenders outperform traditional banks and non-fintech non-banks in risk assessment for U.S. 30-year fixed-rate conforming mortgages. Analyzing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans from Q1 2012 to Q1 2020 using ROC/AUC a...
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