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In 2025, 86.5 per cent of Bulgarians aged 16 to 74 used the internet regularly, while internet banking usage remained significantly lower at 31.1 per cent.
Amazon executed a $200M acquisition of BNPL lender Axio in early 2025 to expand into Indian digital lending.
At year-end 2023, OECD countries held $63.1 trillion of assets earmarked for retirement, almost equal to their annual GDP.
Artificial intelligence adoption in fintech enhances operational speed in credit scoring, insurance risk assessment, and fraud detection, but creates algorithmic opacity known as the black box dilemma.
Preliminary fundraising figures for European PE/VC funds in H1 2026 reached €67.6bn, representing a 6% increase from the revised H1 2025 figure of €63.8bn.
In the Post-period, AI accounts for around 60% of VC investment volume in the US, compared to roughly 31% in Europe.
According to international surveys by the Bank for International Settlements, about 70% of financial sector companies use AI for cash flow forecasting and risk assessment.
The report analyzes gender gaps in financial knowledge and behaviour across 20 EU Member States using 2022 OECD/INFE survey data.
The Non-Compensatory Multimetric Framework (NCMF) is validated on 2 real technology initiatives of a leading insurance group [p.1].
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.
A Scopus bibliometric search conducted on 8 October 2026 retrieved 1,418 records, from which 1,045 were retained for critical analysis.
In May 2022, the International Monetary Fund increased the RMB's weight in the Special Drawing Rights basket from 10.92% to 12.28%.
Expanding access to Tether's arbitrage mechanism reduced the absolute size of peg deviations by approximately one half.
The 29 October 2026 Binance incident resulted in an estimated USD 6.3 billion in unauthorized hot-wallet outflows with initial findings showing no evidence of a private-key leak.
Polish banks account for 4 out of the 40 global Digital Champions, defined as the top 10% of banks.
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.
European Union Regulation (UE) 2023/1114 was enacted on 31 May 2023 to establish the MiCA framework for crypto-asset markets.
The European insurance sector relies on diversity across products, distribution channels, and providers to meet varied consumer and business needs.
The EU requires an additional €750–800 billion per year for the green and digital transitions, energy security, and modern infrastructure.
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.
Total Ukrainian banking sector net assets grew by 70.1% from UAH 2,352 billion in 2022 to UAH 4,001 billion in 2025.
The AMF conducted a thematic SPOT inspection campaign across 4 investment services providers regarding client communications for SCPI real estate products.
The EBA published its discussion paper on machine learning for IRB models under reference EBA/DP/2021/04 on 11 November 2021.
Headline inflation expectations were revised upward by 0.3 percentage points to 3.0% for 2026 and by 0.4 percentage points to 2.6% for 2027, while staying unchanged at 2.0% for 2028.
The Securities Holdings Statistics by Sector (SHSS) dataset provides granular coverage generally above well 90 percent for each euro area country analyzed.
EUR bank bond supply is projected to reach €450bn in 2027, driven primarily by elevated redemptions across segments.
Euro area banks reported a net tightening of credit standards for loans or credit lines to firms of 9% in the third quarter of 2026, up from 7% in the second quarter.
EIOPA issued a staff paper on 27 October 2026 introducing four building blocks to integrate behavioural science into conduct of business supervision.
The relationship between financial technology firms and traditional banks has evolved through a three-phase progression from initial competition to cooperation and convergence.
Unsecured interbank lending entails material regulatory costs, estimated at around 35 basis points for lenders in the second half of 2025.
