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DETERMINANTS OF PAYMENT INNOVATION AMONG DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS IN NIGERIA: A REVIEW OF LITERATURE

open access: yesModern Management Review
Payment innovation plays the central role in enhancing efficiency, accessibility, and financial inclusion within the banking sector, particularly in emerging economies like Nigeria.
Rahmon Abiodun FOLAMI   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bank Size and Systemic Risk [PDF]

open access: yesStaff Discussion Notes, 2014
Large banks are riskier, and create more systemic risk, when they have lower capital and less-stable funding. Large banks create more systemic risk (but are not individually riskier) when they engage more in market-based activities or are more organizationally complex.
Luc Laeven, Lev Ratnovski, Hui Tong
openaire   +3 more sources

Structural insights into an engineered feruloyl esterase with improved MHET degrading properties

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
A feruloyl esterase was engineered to mimic key features of MHETase, enhancing the degradation of PET oligomers. Structural and computational analysis reveal how a point mutation stabilizes the active site and reshapes the binding cleft, expading substrate scope.
Panagiota Karampa   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Changing the Future for Women Entrepreneurs in Paraguay [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Women-owned small and micro enterprises at the base of the pyramid (BOP) account for nearly 20 percent of businesses in Paraguay, yet they generally cannot access credit because they lack documentation to prove their repayment capacity or collateral such
Inter-American Development Bank
core   +1 more source

The impact of bank size on blockchain technology adoption: empirical evidence from Nigerian deposit money banks

open access: yesFrontiers in Blockchain
Evidence from developed countries has shown that larger banks usually have more financial and technical resources to finance and implement blockchain technology more effectively, compared to smaller banks.
Dolapo Faith Sule
doaj   +1 more source

Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
wiley   +1 more source

Fintech in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Consolidated Ecosystem for Recovery

open access: yes, 2022
This report shows how the fintech ecosystem of Latin America and the Caribbean has evolved and grown over the last three years. The number of platforms grew at a rate of 112 percent since the last measurement in 2018, to reach 2,482 at the end of 2021 ...
Inter-American Development Bank
core   +1 more source

Market power and liquidity creation: Size heterogeneity and risk absorption

open access: yesHo Chi Minh City Open University Journal of Science - Economics and Business Administration
This study examines the relationship between market power and liquidity creation in Vietnam, focusing on whether this relationship varies across bank size classes.
Huu Thanh Vu
doaj   +1 more source

Diversity and complexity in neural organoids

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Neural organoid research aims to expand genetic diversity on one side and increase tissue complexity on the other. Chimeroids integrate multiple donor genomes within single organoids. Self‐organising multi‐identity organoids, exogenous cell seeding, or enforced assembly of region‐specific organoids contribute to tissue complexity.
Ilaria Chiaradia, Madeline A. Lancaster
wiley   +1 more source

Remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean (Part 1 of 5)

open access: yes, 2002
This analysis outlines current trends and issues regarding the Latin American and Caribbean remittance markets and provides a statistical summary of its size, its demographic characteristics, and its economic ...
Inter-American Development Bank
core   +1 more source

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