A Systematic Literature Review on Impacts of Financial Inclusion and Digital Banking on Economic Growth: The Mediating Role of Financial Institutions
An initial literature search across scholarly databases yielded 150 articles at the first stage.
Banking Reports & Market Data (2026)
142 documents
Deep-π*: A Neural Network Estimate of Trend Inflation
Deep-π* models trend inflation by mapping 122 macroeconomic indicators through neural networks into trend innovations, eliminating latent random-walk shocks and enabling exact Shapley attribution.
Stablecoin Depegging, Financial Intermediary Balance Sheet Constraints, and Liquidity in the U.S. Traditional Money Market
By end-2025, the global stablecoin market grew from approximately $25 billion in 2020 to over $300 billion.
Financial Information Systems and Their Role in Achieving Financial Sustainability: An Analytical Study of Commercial Banks
The study analyzed data from a questionnaire distributed to 250 employees of commercial banks to evaluate the impact of financial information systems on financial sustainability.
Beyond Account Ownership: Financial Inclusion, Digital Banking Use and Inclusive Development in Jalgaon District, Maharashtra
The source material reports a dataset of 540 observations across Jalgaon district.
Efficiency without Compulsion: Economic Trade-offs in the Transition to a Cashless Society
The document establishes a distinction between voluntary payment digitalisation and forced cashlessness, evaluating welfare trade-offs across financial inclusion, privacy, and system resilience.
Productive Finance for the Belt and Road Initiative: Reexamining China’s Debt Sustainability Framework
China committed over $1.3 trillion in development finance to the Global South between 2000 and 2021.
Regulatory Reforms in Nigeria's Bureau De Change Sector and Exchange Rate Stability: Assessing the Role of the Central Bank of Nigeria
In March 2024, the Central Bank of Nigeria launched a major regulatory overhaul in the Bureau De Change sector, revoking the licenses of over 4000 BDC operators to curb financial malfeasance.
Debt maturity and government spending multipliers
Empirical analysis of post-war US data demonstrates that government spending shocks financed with short-term debt yield significantly higher output multipliers than those financed with long-term debt, typically exceeding unity under short-term financing.
Technology, Regulation, and the Divergent Trajectories of Retail and Cross-Border Central Bank Digital Currency
A Scopus bibliometric search conducted on 8 October 2026 retrieved 1,418 records, from which 1,045 were retained for critical analysis.
When Is a Hack a Defense? Custodial Liability, Issuer Freezes and the Public Loss after the Binance Theft of 29 October 2026
On 29 October 2026, about $6.36 billion was taken from Binance's hot wallets across ten blockchains.
Islamic Financial Technology and Startup Financing
Islamic crowdfunding currently accounts for only 3-5% of total FinTech funding in the Arab Gulf region.
Financial Market Contagion and Risk Transmission Across Global Economies
Advanced economies recorded lower vulnerability with a Financial Contagion Index (FCI) of 58 and a Risk Transmission Index (RTI) of 55.
Currency Internationalization and International Financial Centers: Historical Logic, Evolutionary Mechanisms, and Implications for China
In May 2022, the International Monetary Fund increased the RMB's weight in the Special Drawing Rights basket from 10.92% to 12.28%.
The Jurisdiction of Par: Juridical Singleness and the Legal Identity of Stablecoins
Expanding access to Tether's arbitrage mechanism reduced the absolute size of peg deviations by approximately one half.
Digital Banking Maturity 2024
Polish banks account for 4 out of the 40 global Digital Champions, defined as the top 10% of banks.
ECB Perception of Non-Banks: A Machine Learning-Based Approach
The authors construct an index tracking the European Central Bank's perception of non-bank financial intermediaries using 2,830 speeches delivered between July 1998 and June 2024.
The Asymmetric Attack Surface of Fiat Substitutes: A Measurement Framework and Owner-Bound Offline Custody Architecture
In 2019, Federal Bureau of Investigation data recorded USD 1.424 billion in reported stolen currency and USD 36.981 million recovered relative to USD 1.7598 trillion of U.S. currency in circulation.
Citizen-Majority Tokenized Ownership for MSME Revival in India: The G-CMTO Model Integrating Blockchain, the e-Rupee and the MicroSME–Blockchain Index
India's MSMEs generate 31.1% of GDP and 48.58% of exports, yet face an addressable credit gap of roughly ₹30 lakh crore.
A Critical Analysis of the Legal and Ethical Challenges of Digital Lending Applications in Tanzania: A Doctrinal Analysis with Comparative Reference to Nigeria
Regulators actively enforced rules by blocking sixty-nine unlicensed loan applications in November 2024.
Crypto-Asset Regulation Between Innovation and Normative Frameworks
European Union Regulation (UE) 2023/1114 was enacted on 31 May 2023 to establish the MiCA framework for crypto-asset markets.
Cryptocurrency Regulation and Monetary Policy Trade-offs in Transition Economies
Transition economies across Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and Latin America face unique structural macroeconomic challenges, including currency substitution and weak monetary policy transmission.
The 2026 State of Open Source in Financial Services
Financial services contributors generated 1,260,883 commits to public GitHub repositories in 2026, representing a 63% increase year-over-year.
Advancing Digital Banking in Albania: Trust, Financial Literacy and Regulatory Readiness in the FinTech Ecosystem
The empirical study analyzed Albania's digital banking ecosystem using quantitative data from a survey of 151 respondents and qualitative data from 15 semi-structured interviews.
Evaluating Blockchain Infrastructure for Institutional Finance: A Comparative Assessment of Scalability, Regulatory Compliance, and Financial Market Adoption
Ethereum accounted for $12.3 billion of the $19.08 billion global market for tokenized real-world assets excluding stablecoins in early January 2026.
A Graph Neural Network Platform for Blockchain Anti-Money Laundering: A Literature Review and Proposed System Architecture
The Elliptic benchmark dataset contains roughly 204 thousand Bitcoin transactions linked by about 234 thousand payment-flow edges across 49 time steps.
State Policy on Banking Regulation Amid the Development of FinTech Technologies and Growing Digital Risks to National Security
Total Ukrainian banking sector net assets grew by 70.1% from UAH 2,352 billion in 2022 to UAH 4,001 billion in 2025.
Measuring the Digital Maturity of Moroccan Commercial Banks: Construction of a Multidimensional Score
The studied sample of five Moroccan commercial banks achieved an overall average digital maturity score of 3.48 out of 5.
The effects of geopolitical risk on sovereign debt holders in the euro area
The Securities Holdings Statistics by Sector (SHSS) dataset provides granular coverage generally above well 90 percent for each euro area country analyzed.
Discussion Paper on Machine Learning for IRB Models
The EBA published its discussion paper on machine learning for IRB models under reference EBA/DP/2021/04 on 11 November 2021.