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Peer-to-peer lending: opportunities and risks

, 2018
The objective of this paper is to outline the phenomenon of peer-to-peer P2P lending as a new method of debt financing that enables individuals to borrow and lend money online without the use of an official financial institution as an intermediary. Also is analyzed the role of P2P lending as a mechanism for attracting financial resources into small ...
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Scaling Smart: The Potential of Digital Strategies to Promote Breastfeeding in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. [PDF]

Matern Child Nutr
Bessey D.
europepmc   +1 more source

Sequencing Finance for Climate Resilience: Instruments, Institutions and Hong Kong's Role in Mobilising Private Capital in Southeast Asia

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates innovative financing strategies to mobilise private capital for climate adaptation, emphasising Hong Kong's role in advancing efforts across Southeast Asia. Using expert interviews and case studies, it addresses two key questions: which financial instruments can strengthen public–private collaboration, and what best ...
Laurence L. Delina, Madeleine Rachel Widia, Olivia Felice Janice Boedijanto, Sharon Feliza Ann P. Macagba, Johanne Rei R. Castro, Rainbow Yi Hung Lam   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contribution of contrast-enhanced ultrasound for diagnosis of adnexal torsion (COVARIAN): protocol for a randomised controlled trial. [PDF]

BMJ Open
Fijean AL, Manhertz D, Massicot L, Lecointre L, Mottet N, Raimond E, Simon E, Gabriele V, Morel O, Beaumont M, Hossu G, Bertholdt C.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Debunking the Myth: A Dive Into the Role of Relational Capital in Sustainable Food Production Systems

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The shift towards sustainable food production is essential to address the urgent dual challenges of climate change and population growth, with agricultural cooperatives playing a vital role in this transformation. However, many cooperatives struggle to deliver the expected value to their members.
Ismail Badraoui, Tarik Saikouk, Nejib Fattam, Ahmed Hamdi, Vikas Kumar   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Turning the tide in the mitigation of clinically relevant post-operative pancreatic fistula in pancreatoduodenectomy-broad-spectrum antibiotic surgical prophylaxis is the new standard of care. [PDF]

Hepatobiliary Surg Nutr
McKay B, Dixon E.
europepmc   +1 more source

Climate Change Mitigation Takes the Lead: EU Taxonomy‐Aligned and Eligible Activities in Relation to Debt Financing

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study assesses the degree of alignment with and eligibility to the EU Taxonomy of non‐financial firms and investigates its relationship with their Cost of Debt (CoD). The empirical analysis is based on a sample of 306 non‐financial firms listed on the Stoxx Europe 600 Index across 15 European countries. Taxonomy‐related data were manually
Fabio Rizzato, Simona Fiandrino, Alberto Tonelli, Giorgia La Barbera   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Leaders in the global banking network: Analysis of the Bank for International Settlements network data. [PDF]

PLoS One
Bonato A, Palan JC, Szava A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Climate Change Risks and Customer Concentration: Evidence From US‐Listed Firms

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While prior studies have investigated climate risks in supply chains, customer ESG pressures, and shared climate exposure, this paper is, to the best of our knowledge, the first to provide direct empirical evidence on the relationship between climate change risks and firms' customer concentration.
Thi Thuy Trang Nguyen, Eric Owusu Boahen, Cuong Nguyen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The development of peer-to-peer lending

, 2015
This article centers around a new phenomenon known as peer-to-peer lending and its huge successes in the recent years. The industry grows double every nine months to a record 2.6 billion by the end of 2014. Because of such growth dramatic changes happened, hedge funds started to invest into peer-to-peer lending and even banks admitted that the new ...
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