This special issue, “Internet Finance, Green Finance, and Sustainability”, is focused on the prosperous financial industry and the relationship between finance and sustainability. It especially gathers papers pertaining to the hot topic o...
Internet finance is a new form of finance that applies capacities found on the Internet to the traditional financial industry. However, at the present stage, internet finance is faced with many problems, such as overly rapid development and non-stand...
This paper aims at investigating the relationship between the use of the Internet and access to external finance of small and micro businesses, both theoretically and empirically. We first develop a theoretical model to explore how access to the Inte...
As a new species in the financial ecosystem, internet finance has significantly impacted traditional finance and has improved the diversity and ended the long-term stability of the financial ecosystem. From the perspective of the interaction between...
Based on the Chinese county-level panel data from 2014–2018, in the study reported in this paper, we empirically tested the “complementarity and substitution” effects of internet finance and rural finance on rural economic developme...
Internet finance is a financial mode combining traditional financial industry with Internet technologies, which has become a crucial part of the financial field. Due to the rapid change of information technologies and public financial needs, Internet...
This article aims to show how the globalized securities market in general and a transnational legal business structure named variable interest entity (VIE) in particular has challenged our conventional understanding of “foreignness” as a...
Internet consumer finance platforms (ICFPs), as a new Internet financial model, have emerged and been widely adopted by Chinese as well as global online shoppers following the rapid growth of e-commerce. This emerging financial tool is, however, luri...
From the perspective of social network behavior, our paper discusses the relationship between agricultural entrepreneurial social network behavior and entrepreneurial financing performance in an Internet crowdfunding setting, and investigates the mod...
The study aims to investigate how the internet has affected China’s financial inclusion from the standpoint of developing internet technologies. Firstly, using the coefficient of variation method and the principal component analysis method, the...
The issuance of digital currency electronic payments (DC/EP), under the supervision of the People’s Bank of China, will have a certain impact on commercial banks, and will further affect the areas of internet finance and traditional financing....
The lockdown restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic led to increased interest in Fintech and digital finance solutions, and it gave people an incentive to join the formal financial sector by owning a formal account. People became interested in inf...
Managing finances in a supply chain today is not as straightforward as it once was. The world is constantly shifting—markets fluctuate, risks emerge unexpectedly—and companies are continually trying to stay one step ahead. In all this, fi...
Internet of Things (IoT) finance extends financial services to the whole physical commodity society with the help of IoT technology to realize financial automation and intelligence. However, the security of IoT finance still needs to be improved. Blo...
In the context of worldwide internationalization, a new entrepreneurial financing mode has emerged and gained popularity, which has been improved and modified significantly in terms of both form and content. This study selects crowdfunding as its bre...
The implications of digital finance for financial stability has come under serious scrutiny since the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC). Empirical evidence on this nexus are somewhat inconsistent and ambiguous. This study therefore...
Blockchain is a modern technology that has revolutionized the way society interacts and trades. It could be defined as a chain of blocks that stores information with digital signatures in a distributed and decentralized network. This technique was fi...
Financial technology (FinTech) rapidly transforms financial landscapes across ASEAN-4 countries by enhancing financial inclusion and digital service accessibility. However, the key factors driving FinTech development in these economies remain ambiguo...
22 January 2026
(1) Background: The convergence of Big Data and the Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming digital accounting from retrospective documentation into real-time operational intelligence. This systematic review examines how Industry 4.0 technologies&md...
Adversarial transfer learning is extensively applied in computer vision owing to its remarkable capability in addressing domain adaptation. However, its applications in credit scoring remain underexplored due to the complexity of financial data. The...
With the development of internet technology, more two-sided market platforms, e.g., Tabao, Amazon and Lending Club, have emerged, and it is worth exploring the role that these two-sided market platforms can play in better serving users. This paper ex...
30 March 2020
This study aims to explore the impact of healthcare digitalization on smart hospital project financing (PF) fostered by pay-for-performance (P4P) incentives. Digital platforms are a technology-enabled business model that facilitates exchanges between...
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...
Presently, one of the most critical challenges for e-government and e-banking is the accurate and correct realization of factors that have a significant impact on customer behavior. Without appropriate knowledge of these factors, it would be impossib...
This study conducts a systematic literature review based on the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) process. The Scopus database is our main source of data, and our data analyses comprised bibliometric, systema...
The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in financial markets has created distributed ecosystems where cryptocurrency exchanges, trading platforms, and market data providers operate as autonomous edge nodes generating massive volumes of...
The criticality of sustainable development to control the unprecedented consequences of climate change is clear. A vital element in launching sustainability projects is financing, especially for projects by small and medium enterprises. The first and...
The deep integration of digital finance and foreign trade can drive the steady and rapid development of a high-quality economy. This article conducts an empirical analysis of the mechanisms and impact effects of digital finance on high-quality develo...
Green finance, defined as channeling money into sustainable development activities, is still far lower than needed to achieve net-zero emissions objectives. In this paper, we discuss the role of technologies in developing green finance. We identify t...
This article analyzes the patterns of financing for entrepreneurial firms in Canada. We compare the predictions of major theories of entrepreneurial finance and some more recent ideas (e.g., crowdfunding-related ideas/theories) with empirical evidenc...
One challenge that Micro and Small Industries (MSIs) face is financing. Venture capital is one of the financing options to overcome capital problems by providing financial and non-financial support. This study aims to analyze the influence of venture...
Promoting green innovation is an important way to implement the dual carbon strategy and build an innovative country. Based on the panel data of 250 cities in China from 2011 to 2018, this paper constructs a two-way fixed-effect model, an intermediar...
14 July 2025
Digital finance, a financial innovation paradigm driven by the synergy of digital technology and data elements, has significant advantages in enhancing the convenience, accessibility, and security of cross-border transactions. This study empirically...
Digital inclusive finance is an important policy for promoting rural industrial development in China. Can digital inclusive finance effectively contribute to the development of rural industries? What is its driving mechanism? Clarifying these questio...
The development of internet platforms and information technology has accelerated the transformation of conventional finance. Emerging digital finance is expected to optimize the allocation of credit resources and thereby promote a sustainable transit...
Limited by ecological conditions, in order to improve the innovation efficiency concerning energy, a change from “extensive” to “green” is required. The development of sustainable technology is the most important productive fo...
In an era marked by the expansion of the Internet economy and the intensification of environmental concerns, the convergence of digital finance and green finance has emerged as a significant global trend. China’s Alipay Ant Forest, an innovativ...
Blockchain technology is the most cutting-edge technology in the field of financial technology, which has attracted extensive attention from governments, financial institutions and investors of various countries. Blockchain and finance, as an interdi...
Investment climate has been acknowledged as a key factor that significantly influences economic performance. Improving the investment climate may foster the development of the private sector by creating sustainable jobs and opportunities for entrepre...
Green banking is a significant financial strategy for balancing environmental sustainability with economic progress. Banks can help address Indonesia’s environmental concerns by promoting sustainable behavior, financing green projects, and impl...
This study explores the effect of fintech-driven inclusive finance on the profitability of banks using an unbalanced panel dataset from 660 banks across 40 developing countries between 2011 and 2021. We start with a fixed-effect estimate and subseque...
The rapid development of Internet finance has impacted traditional investment patterns, and Internet money funds (IMFs) are involved extensively in finance. This research constructed a long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network model to predict the...
Green technology innovation has become a breakthrough topic in the coordinated development of economic growth and environmental protection. Although the Internet is likely to become a key driver of transformative environmental change and innovation,...
The future of the internet is moving toward decentralization, with decentralized networks and blockchain technology playing essential roles in different sectors. Decentralized networks offer equality, accessibility, and security at a societal level,...
27 October 2022
The development of digital inclusive finance has greatly improved the feasibility of financial inclusion. Therefore, in the context of the constrained financing of marine carbon sink fisheries, we try to investigate whether digital inclusive finance...
Women in emerging economies face unique constraints rooted in cultural norms, socio-economic disparities, and limited access to education and technology. Narrowing the digital gender gap by ensuring access to financial services may reduce the economi...
A fourth agricultural revolution, termed agriculture 4.0, is gradually gaining ground around the globe. It encompasses the application of smart technologies such as artificial intelligence, biotechnology, the internet of things (IoT), big data, and r...
Financial technology, or Fintech, has captured the attention of scholars, students, and institutions across worldwide for over a decade. With a plethora of new financial services, products, and innovative methods to engage with clients, the impact of...
This article reviews the relation between social capital and stock market participation via new technology. Its purpose is to acquire a thorough understanding of the structural, relational, and cognitive aspects of social capital’s influences a...
Blockchain technology plays a significant role in the industrial development. Many industries can potentially benefit from the innovations blockchain decentralization technology and privacy protocols offer with regard to securing, data access, auditi...
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