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Fintechs and their emergence in banking services in CESEE

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  • Caroline Stern

    (Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB), Foreign Research Division)

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Over the last years, the development of financial technology in the banking sector got a new twist with the emergence of numerous small start-ups called fintechs. Some of the new technologies will probably make specific areas of the banking business more efficient, while others may have the potential to disrupt the traditional banking sector. This paper presents the outcome of a stocktaking exercise and shows that most of the new financial technologies are still being used on a small scale. Given that the CESEE region is usually omitted in discussions of fintechs, this paper aims at closing this gap by giving an idea of which activities exist in this region with regard to financial technology. Focusing on three business areas – (1) financial services, (2) payments and (3) financing – this study finds that the level of adoption of new technologies varies across the CESEE countries. Also, a handful of countries seem to have a more active fintech scene in some areas (e.g. peer-to-peer lending) than many of their Western neighbors.

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  • Caroline Stern, 2017. "Fintechs and their emergence in banking services in CESEE," Focus on European Economic Integration, Oesterreichische Nationalbank (Austrian Central Bank), issue Q3/17, pages 42-58.
    • Handle: RePEc:onb:oenbfi:y:2017:i:q3/17:b:3
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    1. Katharina Allinger, 2018. "European retail payments market integration and fintech: a case study approach," Financial Stability Report, Oesterreichische Nationalbank (Austrian Central Bank), issue 36, pages 25-39.
    2. Caroline Stern & Mikko Makinen & Zongxin Qian, 2017. "FinTechs in China – with a special focus on peer to peer lending," Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 10(3), pages 215-228, October.
    3. Elisabeth Beckmann & Sarah Reiter & Helmut Stix, 2018. "A geographic perspective on banking in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe," Focus on European Economic Integration, Oesterreichische Nationalbank (Austrian Central Bank), issue Q1-18, pages 26-47.

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    Keywords

    fintech; nonbank financial institutions; banks;
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    JEL classification:

    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
    • G23 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Non-bank Financial Institutions; Financial Instruments; Institutional Investors

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