Fintech is increasingly recognized as a key enabler for financial sectors worldwide, enabling more efficient and competitive financial markets while expanding access to finance for traditionally underserved...
Financial inclusion, or providing access and active usage of formal financial products and services to the unbanked, underbanked, and micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), is a key priority for...
The global payment systems survey (GPSS) was launched for the first time in 2007. This tool has assisted authorities and policy makers worldwide in making meaningful cross-country comparisons and assess...
This paper provides an overview of different regulatory approaches to Fintech and provides guidance for policymakers to understand the benefits and limitations of each. While some Fintech activities can...
The survey aims to comprehensively and comparatively analyze how regulators from both developing and developed economies are regulating and supervising online alternative finance activities. The current...
This report of Indonesia daily economic update for August 24, 2018 presents economic highlights: the financial services authority (OJK) has just issued a regulation on financial technology (fintech) covering...
When crowdfunding emerged in the United Kingdom around 2007, few can imagine that 10 years later China will be the largest crowdfunding market in the world. Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending in China started...
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Demand is also fueled by other factors: in many emerging economies a ‘demographic dividend’ of young people, the product of significant reductions in child and infant mortality rates—is poised to enter...
The purpose of this paper is to capture lessons learned from East African entrepreneurs who were some of crowdfunding’s first adopters. Their experiences can serve as a practical guide for entrepreneurs...
Some of the headings included in this issue of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG) daily economics and financial market commentary newsletter are as follows: financial markets; high-income...