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  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,623 Views
27 Pages

Fintechs and Institutions: Evidence from an Emerging Economy

  • Diogo Campos-Teixeira,
  • Jorge Tello-Gamarra,
  • João Reis,
  • André Andrade Longaray and
  • Martin Hernani-Merino

Institutions play a vital role in restricting or encouraging the performance of any economic agent. In this context, fintechs represent a vector of exponential change in the global financial system and its institutions. However, despite the existing...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fintech, Business, and Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
17,054 Views
16 Pages

While there is a fast-growing number of studies on FinTech, the relationships between technology companies and banks have received only limited attention in the research literature. Most of the studies on FinTech-bank interactions conducted so far ad...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue FinTech and the Future of Finance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
8,169 Views
19 Pages

Unlocking the Potential of Fintechs for Financial Inclusion: A Delphi-Based Approach

  • Luiz Antonio Joia and
  • Joaquim Pedro Vasconcelos Cordeiro

22 October 2021

The financial sector is experiencing an accelerated process of transformation shaped by fintechs, which opens an important window of opportunity to increase financial inclusion in emerging markets, such as Brazil, with high financial exclusion. Thus,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue A Prerequisite for Sustainability: Financial Sustainability)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
12,664 Views
29 Pages

Fintechs and Institutions: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda

  • Jorge Tello-Gamarra,
  • Diogo Campos-Teixeira,
  • André Andrade Longaray,
  • João Reis and
  • Martin Hernani-Merino

The growth of fintechs has exponentially modified the international financial system. These changes affect social mechanisms that regulate the performance of economic agents, generating the need to modify the current role played by institutions. Desp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Research and Developments of Digitalization Transformation and innovation in Businesses)
  • Article
  • Open Access
69 Citations
11,524 Views
18 Pages

29 September 2020

After the 2007–08 global financial crisis, research flourished on entrepreneurship through digital innovation in the financial market as well as on investors’ influence on digital technology-based entrepreneurs’ funding decisions. T...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Insurtech, Proptech & Fintech Environment: Sustainability, Global Trends and Opportunities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
16,902 Views
9 Pages

23 May 2022

The rapid development of Fintechs has brought opportunities and challenges to the profitability of banks. In this paper, we theoretically expound how Fintechs impact on banks’ profitability, then we establish the Error Correction Model (ECM) an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fintech and Sustainable Finance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
64 Citations
11,907 Views
27 Pages

10 October 2023

In alignment with the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals and the UN Global Compact’s Ten Principles, nations have established platforms for environmental sustainability through financial routes, spotlighting green finance and FinTech....

  • Article
  • Open Access
119 Citations
13,119 Views
18 Pages

17 September 2020

Despite high expectations for the growth of Fintech, it has not reached the expected growth in the real world. As Fintech is innovative but inherently unpredictable, customers are still hesitant to adopt and use Fintech, which ultimately affects its...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Insurtech, Proptech & Fintech Environment: Sustainability, Global Trends and Opportunities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
15,930 Views
17 Pages

Using the World Bank Global Findex Database for 91 countries in 2014, 2017, and 2021, we examine whether fintech levels influence bank performance and whether fintech’s interaction with GDP per capita causes differential effects on bank performance g...

(This article belongs to the Section Financial Technology and Innovation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,626 Views
12 Pages

The rising adoption of FinTech is changing the financial sector. However, the determinants of FinTech have not been examined thoroughly. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether corporate governance is related to FinTech products in the bankin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fintech, Business, and Development)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
14 Citations
9,612 Views
8 Pages

Data Defense: Examining Fintech’s Security and Privacy Strategies

  • Fasih Ur Rehman,
  • Hafiz Muhammad Attaullah,
  • Faisal Ahmed and
  • Sundus Ali

This article aims to investigate the problem of security and privacy in the fintech business, since the use of digital technologies has increased in last few years. In this context, we conducted a survey of fintech companies to understand how they ar...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 2nd International Conference on Emerging Trends in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
245 Citations
39,940 Views
19 Pages

Customer Experience in Fintech

  • Cătălin Mihail Barbu,
  • Dorian Laurenţiu Florea,
  • Dan-Cristian Dabija and
  • Mihai Constantin Răzvan Barbu

The purpose of this paper is to analyse customer experience (CX) in the fintech sector. Fintech is a dynamic and innovative field that fully benefits from advances in information and communication technology. The concept of customer experience is mul...

(This article belongs to the Collection Enhancing Consumer Experience Through Mobile Commerce: Challenges and Opportunities)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
10,437 Views
30 Pages

Fintech Agents: Technologies and Theories

  • Anagh Pal,
  • Shreya Gopi and
  • Kwan Min Lee

Many financial technology (fintech) applications have incorporated interactive computer agents to act as mediators between the user and the fintech system. This paper provides a comprehensive review of interactive fintech agents from technological an...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
69 Citations
20,482 Views
25 Pages

An Eco-Systematic View of Cross-Sector Fintech: The Case of Alibaba and Tencent

  • Yingying Zhang-Zhang,
  • Sylvia Rohlfer and
  • Jay Rajasekera

27 October 2020

This paper explores the most recent Fintech (financial technology) phenomenon from an ecosystem perspective. Differentiated from the earlier Fintech evolution led by traditional financial institutions, “cross-sector” Fintech that operates...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Insurtech, Proptech & Fintech Environment: Sustainability, Global Trends and Opportunities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,627 Views
23 Pages

What Is Green Fintech?

  • Daniel Broby and
  • Zhenjia Yang

This paper addresses the definitional ambiguity surrounding the term “green fintech” and its distinction from related concepts such as green finance and sustainable finance. We argue that the lack of clarity impedes accountability and fac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Financial Technology (Fintech) and Sustainable Financing, 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
9,827 Views
25 Pages

Fintech Services and the Drivers of Their Implementation in Small and Medium Enterprises

  • Diana Moreira-Santos,
  • Manuel Au-Yong-Oliveira and
  • Ana Palma-Moreira

30 August 2022

Fintech has been one of the biggest agents of change in the financial sector worldwide, deserving an in-depth analysis as the aim of this study (including factors leading to its adoption, consequences, etc.). During the COVID-19 pandemic, the financi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Technologies in Education, Research and Innovation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,239 Views
28 Pages

28 August 2025

Despite high expectations for Fintech growth, its real-world expansion has fallen short due to its inherent complexity. Although Fintech is innovative, its multidimensional nature has made it difficult for companies to develop effective, tailored sol...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Eco-Friendly E-commerce: Empowering Purchase Intentions for Sustainable Growth)
  • Article
  • Open Access
134 Citations
13,827 Views
15 Pages

Accessing financial services is considered one of the main challenges facing communities during crises. This research studies the role of using FinTech applications to build resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research empirically examines t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
348 Citations
31,483 Views
19 Pages

Fintech and Sustainability: Do They Affect Each Other?

  • Cristina Chueca Vergara and
  • Luis Ferruz Agudo

22 June 2021

Current concerns about environmental issues have led to many new trends in technology and financial management. Within this context of digital transformation and sustainable finance, Fintech has emerged as an alternative to traditional financial inst...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Insurtech, Proptech & Fintech Environment: Sustainability, Global Trends and Opportunities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
97 Citations
35,852 Views
19 Pages

Fintech Innovations in the Financial Service Industry

  • Mansurali Anifa,
  • Swamynathan Ramakrishnan,
  • Shanmugan Joghee,
  • Sajal Kabiraj and
  • Malini Mittal Bishnoi

Digital transformation underscored by the fourth industrial revolution has led to the emergence of sophisticated technology-enabled financial services known as fintech, that has swiftly altered traditional financial services space. Global adoption of...

(This article belongs to the Section Financial Technology and Innovation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
111 Citations
20,236 Views
17 Pages

20 May 2022

Financial technology (fintech) has seen fast development recently in China; however, studies exploring the contributions of fintech to China’s economic growth remain limited. Thus, this study motivated by the knowledge gaps and fast expansion o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
12,905 Views
16 Pages

Fintech Credit and Bank Efficiency: International Evidence

  • Tu D. Q. Le,
  • Tin H. Ho,
  • Dat T. Nguyen and
  • Thanh Ngo

The expansion of fintech credit around the world is challenging the global banking system. This study investigates the interrelationships between the development of fintech credit and the efficiency of banking systems in 80 countries from 2013 to 201...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Financial Industry 4.0 Part 2)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,145 Views
13 Pages

28 October 2024

Financial technology (FinTech) has become an indispensable part of most of the business infrastructure around the world. The FinTech ecosystem provides this solution by providing a suitable environment for all financial techno services to synergize....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
871 Views
33 Pages

Does Institutional Quality Moderate Fintech’s Impact on Financial Development? Cross-Country Empirical Analysis

  • Taghreed Hassouba,
  • Omar Sherif,
  • Jawaher Binsuwadan and
  • Radwa Ahmed Abdelghaffar

25 May 2026

The rapid adoption of financial technology (fintech) is transforming the financial ecosystem. Understanding how these technologies influence financial development is crucial given that the institutional conditions shaping the fintech–financial...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Finance, Technologies, and Regulatory Frameworks: Advancing Sustainability in a Digital Era)
  • Article
  • Open Access
93 Citations
8,497 Views
11 Pages

Sustainable FinTech Innovation Orientation: A Moderated Model

  • Manaf Al-Okaily,
  • Abdul Rahman Al Natour,
  • Farah Shishan,
  • Ahmed Al-Dmour and ,
  • Rasha Alghazzawi and
  • Malek Alsharairi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 December 2021

Financial technology (otherwise known as FinTech) refers to a type of technology and innovation that tries to improve and automate the delivery and use of financial services. Despite the importance of this technology in people’s financial trans...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Review
  • Open Access
77 Citations
22,990 Views
43 Pages

A Survey of Blockchain Applications in the FinTech Sector

  • Tara Renduchintala,
  • Haneen Alfauri,
  • Zebo Yang,
  • Roberto Di Pietro and
  • Raj Jain

FinTech has proven its true potential in traditional financial offerings by delivering digital financial services to individuals worldwide. The pandemic has accelerated how people interact with financial services and has resulted in long-term changes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
11,233 Views
12 Pages

16 November 2022

Financial inclusion and Fintech have revolutionized the financial sector and fundamentally changed how we store, save, borrow, transfer, and invest money. This paper investigates the impact of financial inclusion and Fintech on income inequality usin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fintech and Sustainable Finance)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
43 Citations
27,688 Views
21 Pages

A Systematic Review of Fintech and Banking Profitability

  • Adey Tarawneh,
  • Aisyah Abdul-Rahman,
  • Syajarul Imna Mohd Amin and
  • Mohd Fahmi Ghazali

Financial technology (Fintech), characterized as technology-driven financial innovation, has catalyzed significant economic growth across various nations. The Fintech sector has experienced remarkable expansion, boasting vast user numbers. While regi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,385 Views
24 Pages

Islamic Fintech Adoption Readiness in Pakistan

  • John Robert Hamilton and
  • Dil Nawaz Hakro

13 October 2025

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,159 Views
12 Pages

The rise of financial technology (fintech) driven business models in banking poses a challenge for financial regulators. While the positive effects on the banking sector in terms of greater diversity and competition are generally recognized and encou...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Future of Banking Risk and Regulation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
163 Citations
20,171 Views
30 Pages

How Green FinTech Can Alleviate the Impact of Climate Change—The Case of Switzerland

  • Thomas Puschmann,
  • Christian Hugo Hoffmann and
  • Valentyn Khmarskyi

21 December 2020

The financial services industry is currently undergoing a major transformation, with digitization and sustainability being the core drivers. While both concepts have been researched in recent years, their intersection, often conceived as “green...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability with Robo-Advisor and Artificial Intelligence in Finance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
41,423 Views
23 Pages

Regulations and Fintech: A Comparative Study of the Developed and Developing Countries

  • Preethi Vijayagopal,
  • Bhawana Jain and
  • Shyam Ayinippully Viswanathan

Financial technology (Fintech) has influenced business by helping create better services for consumers and businesses. Fintech, however, brings new challenges for regulators, who struggle to keep pace with the constant evolution of technology and the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Financial Technologies (Fintech) in Finance and Economics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,773 Views
22 Pages

Breaking Barriers: How Fintech Expands Access to Finance?

  • Andromahi Kufo,
  • Ardit Gjeçi,
  • Gentjan Çera and
  • Kserdi Cenolli

Financial technologies (Fintech) have rapidly reshaped access to financial services, particularly in developing countries where traditional banking remains limited. This study investigates fintech’s role in advancing financial inclusion by anal...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Trends and Innovations in Corporate Finance and Governance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,093 Views
16 Pages

Islamic fintech is growing fast, especially in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OOIC) member countries. In recent years, it has become one of the driving forces for the Islamic financial industry. Though the pandemic negatively affected globa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Financial Technology (Fintech) and Sustainable Financing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,885 Views
23 Pages

This study explores the transformative role of financial technology (fintech) in advancing sustainability, financial inclusion, and customer engagement in Jordan’s banking sector. Utilizing a quantitative descriptive survey design, data were co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Banking Practices, Climate Risk and Financial Stability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,518 Views
16 Pages

The Impact of Fintech Development on Air Pollution

  • Yuzhen Ma,
  • Xinyang Wei,
  • Gaoyun Yan and
  • Xiaoyu He

Over the past 40 years of reform and opening-up, China has achieved rapid economic and technological growth at the cost of severe air pollution. The emerging Fintech, as the result of financial institutions’ adapting to the latest digital techn...

(This article belongs to the Section Air)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,079 Views
18 Pages

Green FinTech: A Consumer Awareness Study

  • Anna Iwona Piotrowska and
  • Dariusz Piotrowski

19 April 2025

Environmental protection is a core component of the sustainable business practices of financial institutions. Previous research on green FinTech mainly relies on gas and dust emissions data to show its environmental impact, while consumer assessments...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,595 Views
22 Pages

FinTech for Inclusive Growth: A Gender Perspective

  • Hela Mzoughi,
  • Arafet Farroukh and
  • Martina Metzger

19 March 2026

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,638 Views
19 Pages

Unveiling the Future of FinTech: Exploring the Behavioral Intentions Behind FinTech Adoption

  • Attila Kurucz,
  • Tamás Vinkóczi,
  • Borbála Tamás and
  • Ewelina Idziak

In addition to the technological aspects of FinTech solutions, it is important to consider user willingness, particularly among the digitally savvy Generation Z. We conducted a survey in Hungary and Poland to gather information on young people’...

(This article belongs to the Section Financial Technology and Innovation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,715 Views
19 Pages

This paper aims to examine the interplay between the attributes of the FinTech ecosystem (input) and productive entrepreneurship (output) in Russian regions. A survey was used to gather data from FinTech representatives in ten selected regions locate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Financial Industry 4.0 Part 2)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,815 Views
19 Pages

How Fintech Impacts Enterprises’ Digital–Green Synergy

  • Chenyang Meng,
  • Yu Peng,
  • Jiaxin Zhang and
  • Jinjin Chen

13 June 2025

Based on a sample of A-share companies listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange from 2011 to 2022, this paper measures and analyzes the degree of enterprises’ digital–green synergy and further tests the influe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Corporate Governance, Innovation Management and Sustainability Performance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,855 Views
19 Pages

4 December 2025

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
8,169 Views
22 Pages

8 December 2022

The present-day financial system is being influenced by the rapid development of Fintech (financial technology), which comprises technologies created to improve and automate traditional forms of finance for businesses and consumers. The topic of Fint...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Development in Fintech)
  • Article
  • Open Access
140 Citations
18,953 Views
24 Pages

8 July 2022

Industry 4.0 technologies, designed to optimize efficiencies, are indisputable change agents for sustainability. In the context of financial technology (FinTech), the burgeoning question concerns how to create FinTech natives from the COVID-19-pandem...

(This article belongs to the Topic Toward the New Era of Sustainable Design, Manufacturing and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,336 Views
20 Pages

Fintech: Evidence of the Urgent Need to Improve Financial Literacy in Portugal

  • Mariana Costa,
  • Manuel Au-Yong-Oliveira and
  • Ana Moreira

Fintech has revolutionized the financial sector, providing a new way of providing banking services. Since Fintech can provide the same services as traditional banks but entirely online, it is a competitor. As a result, consumers’ relationships...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human Resources and Artificial Intelligence—What Ties Will the Future Bring?)
  • Article
  • Open Access
65 Citations
29,957 Views
27 Pages

Adoption Factors of FinTech: Evidence from an Emerging Economy Country-Wide Representative Sample

  • Khaled Mahmud,
  • Md. Mahbubul Alam Joarder and
  • Kazi Muheymin-Us-Sakib

Adoption factors of Financial Technology (Fintech) services have been the subject of investigation in a growing body of extant literature. Macro-level as well as user-specific factors that contribute to the adoption of customer-facing fintech service...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
8,651 Views
14 Pages

31 January 2023

Innovation is the source of competitiveness among firms and the driver of economic growth. This paper examines the influence of fintech and firms’ innovation from the perspective of stakeholder financial support. To test the relationship, we co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Industry 4.0, Digitization and Opportunities for Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
9,358 Views
18 Pages

6 July 2023

Financial services providers have the funds to finance climate change, and new entrepreneurs would like to join this effort. They need ideas on what fintechs can do to make money yet be sustainable. The research purpose of this study is to explore wh...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,727 Views
22 Pages

Can FinTech Development Curb Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution?

  • Song Jiang,
  • Shuang Qiu,
  • Hong Zhou and
  • Meilan Chen

The green development of FinTech empowerment has become a compelling theme in economic development. In this study, based on the weighted least squares (WLS) and threshold regression methods of cross-sectional data, we empirically examine the impact o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Water Resources and Hydro-Ecology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
8,953 Views
23 Pages

28 March 2023

The existing literature on FinTech and green finance has primarily focused on exploring sustainable economic and environmental benefits. However, empirical research examining the effect of FinTech on green finance remains underexplored. In light of t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Accounting, Corporate Policies and Sustainability)

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