Examining SME Owners' Willingness to Submit Personal and Business Documents as a Proxy for Trust and Creditworthiness: The Psychological Collateral Paradigm
SMEs represent about 90% of businesses and more than 50% of employment worldwide.
Global Reports & Market Data (2026)
Key number
13.3% %
SME owners unwilling to provide required bank documentation. OpenAlex (recherche mondiale) p.5
Key number
15-20% %
Valuation premium from unsubstantiated AI claims. OpenAlex (recherche mondiale) p.1
Key number
7.6% % of GDP
Average reduction in capital inflows from FATF grey-listing. OpenAlex (recherche mondiale) p.5
90 documents
Artificial Intelligence in Fintech and the Black Box Dilemma: Regulatory Perspectives in Azerbaijani Law
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.
AI Washing as the New Corporate Misrepresentation
A textual analysis of more than 5,000 U.S. SEC filings from 2020 to 2025 indicates that AI washing may satisfy Rule 10b-5 materiality and scienter requirements when corporate representations diverge from operational reality.
Money Laundering - The Economic Impact and Its Implications
The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit received 17,345 STR/SAR reports in FY2023–24, consisting of 11,736 STRs and 5,609 SARs.
Fintech Adoption and Firm Performance: Mechanisms, Contingencies, and the Limits of Current Evidence
SWIFT diffusion among nearly 7,000 banks demonstrated that profitability benefits materialized only after several years of adoption.
Strategic Analysis of Global Trade Settlement, Sanctions Enforcement, Alternative Sovereign Rails, and On-Chain Liquidity Infrastructure
Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS) daily usage was reported at about $60 billion compared to about $1,800 billion a day for CHIPS, with about 80 percent of CIPS payments still using Swift messaging.
Artificial Intelligence in the Financial Sector of the Global Economy: Implementation Directions and Financial Stability Risks
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.
Design and Development of a Web-Based Digital Credit Service and QRIS Transaction System
The PayQRIS system achieved a System Usability Scale (SUS) score of 83.25, indicating high usability.
Are the Hedges of Funds Green?
The sample hedge funds report an average monthly AUM of $396.773 million, a average monthly rate of return of 0.564%, and a monthly 7-factor alpha of 0.144%.
Under the Shadow of the Grey List: The Adequacy and Effectiveness of South African Beneficial Ownership Transparency
South Africa was removed from the Financial Action Task Force list of jurisdictions under increased monitoring on 24 October 2025 following statutory reforms.
Improving the Transformation Process of Commercial Banks' Operations
Between 1 January 2021 and 1 January 2026, total banking assets in Uzbekistan grew from UZS 366.1 trillion to UZS 925.0 trillion, achieving a compound annual growth rate of 20.4 percent.
FinTech-Driven Transformation of Financial Management: Evaluating Digital Innovation, Risk Management, and Strategic Decision-Making
The World Bank Firm Adoption of Technology Survey analytical dataset for India comprises 1,519 establishments and 987 variables.
Risk Return Dynamics and Portfolio Performance of Islamic Microfinance Institutions: Evidence from Post-Digital Transformation Era
The research article published in Vol. 2 No. 4 (2026) develops a theoretical risk-return framework to evaluate Islamic microfinance institutions in the post-digital transformation era.
Stablecoin Development Pathways: A Comparative Analysis of Regulatory Logic and Market Landscape in China and the United States
By mid-2026, the aggregate global stablecoin market capitalization reached roughly $280 billion, with dollar-pegged instruments comprising over 92% of circulating supply.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Exchange Warnings and Crypto Prices: Evidence from Monitoring Tags
Binance published 167 monitoring tags across 26 announcements between July 2023 and October 2026, of which 155 were first-time tags.
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%.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Digital Banking Maturity 2024
Polish banks account for 4 out of the 40 global Digital Champions, defined as the top 10% of banks.
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.
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.
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.
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.