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Investigating the role of Fintech in the banking industry: what do we know?

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  • Gianluca Elia
  • Valeria Stefanelli
  • Greta Benedetta Ferilli

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Purpose - In recent years, the penetration of digital technologies in the financial industry determined the arising of Fintech, which generated a dynamic and rapid change that business operators and supervisory authorities in the banking industry are struggling to follow it. This is especially due to issues affecting financial intermediaries and customers, and potential risks of stability of the financial system. The aim of this paper is to provide a review of Fintech in the banking industry thus to update the knowledge about technology innovation in the banking sector, identify the major trends in the domain and delineate future research directions. Design/methodology/approach - The study reviews 377 articles indexed on Scopus from 2014 to 2021 that focus on Fintech and the banking industry. The methodology adopted is structured in two steps: the keywords selection and the analysis of the documents extracted. The first step identified “Fintech” and “bank” as keywords to be searched within the title, abstract or keywords of documents indexed on Scopus; whereas the second step combined R and VOSviewer to provide a descriptive analysis of the dataset and the analysis of keywords and occurrences, respectively. Findings - Results achieved in the study allow providing a systemic view of the Fintech in the banking industry, including the emergent phenomenon of digital banking. In particular, it is provided with a general overview and descriptive information on the entire sample of documents analyzed, their authors, the keywords used and the most cited works. Besides, a deepening on the model of digital banking is provided, by delineating the six dimensions of the key effects generated by the digital bank model. Originality/value - Two main elements of originality characterize this study. The first one is related to the fact that few review studies have been published on Fintech in the banking industry, and the second one concerns the multiple dimensions of the impact of Fintech in the banking sector, which includes customer, company, bank, regulation authority and society.

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  • Gianluca Elia & Valeria Stefanelli & Greta Benedetta Ferilli, 2022. "Investigating the role of Fintech in the banking industry: what do we know?," European Journal of Innovation Management, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 26(5), pages 1365-1393, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:ejimpp:ejim-12-2021-0608
    DOI: 10.1108/EJIM-12-2021-0608
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