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Fintech and access to finance

Journal of Corporate Finance, 2021
Abstract This article surveys research on the effects of digitalization on access to finance. We focus the review on access through fintech . We review the growth of three main fintech technologies, fintech lending (incl. peer-to-peer lending), crowdfunding and initial coin offerings.
Helen Bollaert   +2 more
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Access to finance

2021
This session will bring together research on financial access including the gender gap, inequality (including intra and intergenerational equality), urban vs. rural and the use of digital technologies. The session will explore how the issues associated with financial access overlap with climate finance and whether there are opportunities to tackle both
Toby McCoy   +6 more
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Access to Finance

2010
Abstract Expanding access to financial services holds the promise to help reduce poverty and spur economic development. But, as a practical matter, commercial banks have faced challenges expanding access to poor and low-income households in developing economies, and nonprofits have had limited reach.
Dean Karlan, Jonathan Morduch
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SMEs' Access to Debt Finance

The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 2006
This study compares the use of external debt finance by male-and female-owned small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Ghana to determine whether female-owned firms are less likely to use debt as a source of financing their operations. The results indicate that the capital structure of SMEs is influenced by the legal form, location, size, age and ...
Joshua Abor, Nicholas Biekpe
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Access to Finance

2017
Microinsurance provides indemnity for those with low income and with limited access to insurance options. Aimed at supporting sustainable means of living for individuals, microinsurance is a market-based practice. Many microinsurance products focus on the famine and drought in Latin America, Africa and Asia and most commonly provided by European ...
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Regulation and Access to Finance

2011
Notwithstanding the financial crisis, housing finance remains a booming industry globally with strong growth potential in developing economies. Especially in the subset of countries dubbed ‘emerging markets’, the sector’s risk environment and available risk management options have changed dramatically in the past two decades reflected by low inflation,
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Access to Finance in Kyrgyzstan

International Conference on Eurasian Economies
The access to financial services is crucial for economic development and poverty reduction in Kyrgyzstan. There are a number of factors limiting financial inclusion such as financial, social and economic development. Capital shortage and low access to financial services cause difficulties for economic agents’ saving and borrowing.
Ainura Turdalieva, Razia Abdieva
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