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Sep 2020

Fintech Peer to Peer Lending as Approach to Encourage Economic Inclusion for Rural Communities in Indonesia

Nor ANISA
The paper aims to explain the use of Peer to Peer Lending-based fintech as a platform in creating economic productivity in Rural Areas in Indonesia. Peer to Peer Lending to suppress economic and social inequalities for people who are far from urban access. As for the background of this writing becau...
Keywords: Peer to Peer Lending, Rural Communities in Indonesia, Inclusive Financial, Productivity Economy
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Sep 2020

FinTech Platform and Mutual Fund Distribution

Claire Yurong HONG, Xiaomeng LU, Jun PAN
This paper studies the economic impact of the emergence of FinTech platforms on financial intermediation. In China, platform distributions of mutual funds emerged in 2012 and grew quickly into a formidable presence. Utilizing the staggered fund entrance onto platforms, we find markedly increased flo...
Keywords: Mutual Funds, Platforms, FinTech, Flow-Performance Sensitivity
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Sep 2020

Scaling Up Sustainable Investment through Blockchain-based Project Bonds

Yushi CHEN, Ulrich VOLZ
This paper explores options for mobilizing domestic savings through fintech solutions to scale up sustainable investment. Most developing and emerging economies face an urgent need to scale up sustainable finance for low-carbon and climate-resilient infrastructure investment, yet underdeveloped capi...
Keywords: sustainable investment, FinTech, Blockchain
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Sep 2020

Blockchain for SME Finance: Call for Empirical Testing

Mariya YESSELEVA-PIONKA
For many countries worldwide, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are the backbones of their economy, more than half of the overall world population is working for SMEs. Historically, research studies on SME lending have emphasised that SMEs are less transparent and have an information advantage in ...
Keywords: Blockchain, SMEs, access to funding, DLT, policy, ISO, Standards Australia, SG2 use cases, regulation
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Sep 2020

Do Innovations in Lending Help SMEs?

Swee Liang TAN, Yoke Wang TOK, Thitipat CHANSRINIYOM
As new digital technologies emerge that make the provision of financial services more efficient, they hold the potential to address barriers that SMEs face in accessing credit. This paper found empirical evidence that crowdfunding for SMEs improved SMEs’ timeliness to pay debt in Singapore. Anecdo...
Keywords: Alternative Financing, Crowdfunding, financial institutions, FinTech, Innovations in Lending, regulation, SMEs
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