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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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Sep 2020

Asset Tokenization: A Blockchain Solution to Financing Infrastructure in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies

Yifeng TIAN, Peter ADRIAENS, R. Edward MINCHIN, Charles CHANG, Zheng LU, Chaoying QI
Infrastructure is essential to alleviate poverty and generate long-term growth in emerging markets and developing counties (EMDEs). Nevertheless, financing of infrastructure in EMDEs is faced with pressure on increasing government deficits, issues of transparency, and high financing cost, as well as...
Keywords: infrastructure finance, Blockchain, asset tokenization, public-private partnerships, emerging markets and developing economies
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Sep 2020

Financial intermediation and technology: What’s old, what’s new?

Arnoud BOOT, Peter HOFFMANN, Luc LAEVEN, Lev RATNOVSKI
We study the effects of technological change on financial intermediation, distinguishing between innovations in information (data collection and processing) and communication (relationships and distribution). Both follow historic trends towards an increased use of hard information and less in-person...
Keywords: Financial Intermediation, Financial Innovation, FinTech, Information, Communication
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Nov 2018

Initial Coin Offerings, Corporate Finance and Financial Regulation

Franklin ALLEN
Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) have grown substantially in recent years. They involve issuing coins that are recorded on a block-chain. These can be used to purchase the service or good that the firm they finance produces. The coins can be exchanged for currency on cryptocurrency exchanges. Although ...
Keywords: capital raising, cryptocurrencies, financial structure
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