FinTech Mergers and Acquisitions in India: Rethinking Competition and Regulatory Oversight in the Age of AI
Amazon executed a $200M acquisition of BNPL lender Axio in early 2025 to expand into Indian digital lending.
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Financial Literacy and Tax Management Among Market Traders in Northern Peru: The Moderating Role of Business Formalisation
A study of 218 market traders in Chota and Bagua Grande revealed that 28.0% had low financial literacy and 33.5% had low tax management.
Mapping research visibility in Islamic banking: an altmetric perspective on scholarly attention and digital engagement
The final sample analyzed consists of 225 ABDC-indexed articles published across 78 journals between 1986 and 2024.
The Human-Centric Algorithm: Synergising AI-Driven Fraud Detection with Ethical Human Oversight to Optimise Sustainable Banking Integrity
In 2025, global digital payments value reached $2.0 quadrillion across 3.6 trillion transactions, of which $1 trillion were fraudulent.
Material Adverse Change Clauses in M&A Transactions: The Impact of Macroeconomic Events
Mergers and acquisitions transactions feature an interim period between signing and closing where commercial assumptions and target conditions may change before completion.
Large pension funds do not invest more effectively than smaller pension funds
At year-end 2023, OECD countries held $63.1 trillion of assets earmarked for retirement, almost equal to their annual GDP.
Monitoring of Capital Flows to Sustainable Investments
In 2025, large European companies invested EUR 512 billion in green and transition assets, representing 21% of overall corporate investment in the European Union.
Multi-Jurisdictional iGaming Risk Telemetry, Bonus Abuse Graph Clustering & ISO 8583 Cashier Optimization: 2026 Empirical Benchmarks
Bonus abuse accounts for approximately 70% of all fraud events caught by automated anti-fraud tooling.
2026 U.S. Commercial Banking AI Search Visibility Study: Measuring Total Brand Omission Across Megabanks and Super-Regional Banks on ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude
Super-Regional banks recorded a 0.0% visibility rate across all 192 evaluations for pure rate-driven retail savings, money market, and CD queries.
2026 Credit Union & Fintech AI Search Visibility Study: Measuring Total Brand Omission, Cross-Engine Disagreement, and Loan-Tier Drift Across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude
Audited institutions suffered an aggregate 96.0% Total Brand Omission rate across 960 brand-inclusion evaluations on major AI search platforms.
AI Literacy and Critical Thinking in Strengthening Students' Fraud Detection Capability in a Cashless Society
A quantitative study surveyed 120 active university students in Java to analyze how AI literacy and critical thinking impact digital fraud detection capability.
Limited Capital? Explaining Transatlantic Divergences in Artificial Intelligence Startup Financing
In the Post-period, AI accounts for around 60% of VC investment volume in the US, compared to roughly 31% in Europe.
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%.
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.
Final Report on Guidelines on Internal Governance
Article 74(1) of Directive 2013/36/EU mandates institutions to maintain processes for managing risks, including environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks over a short, medium, and long-term horizon of at least 10 years.
Registered Venture Capital Plans: Fixing Canada's Entrepreneurship and Scale-Up Crisis
Canada's business entry rates fell from 24.5% in the 1980s to roughly 13% pre-pandemic, with fewer than 1.5% of small businesses ever scaling into medium or large firms.
Knowledge gaps, behaviour parity: gender differences in financial literacy in Europe
The report analyzes gender gaps in financial knowledge and behaviour across 20 EU Member States using 2022 OECD/INFE survey data.
Robo-Advisory Services and Investment Portfolio Management at ICICI Securities Ltd
Robo-advisory platform fees range from 0.15% to 0.25%, compared to 1.2% to 2.2% under traditional wealth managers.
The Triangular Contractual Structure and Information-Form Liability in Equity- and Debt-Based Crowdfunding Under Turkish Law
Investors submitting funding requests during crowdfunding campaigns are entitled to a 48-hour withdrawal period under Communiqué III-35/A.2.
Peculiarities of Startup Ecosystem Formation in Ukraine
The share of innovative products in Ukraine's total output does not exceed 2%, compared to 85% in the US, 75% in Japan, and 55% in Germany.
Investor Protection in Sharia and Conventional Securities Crowdfunding: A Comparative Study of SHAFIQ and Santara
OJK Regulation Number 17 of 2025 entered into force on 25 July 2025, revoking OJK Regulation 57/POJK.04/2020 as amended by Regulation 16/POJK.04/2021.
Electronic Banking Fraud in South Africa: Key Drivers in the Digital Age
In 2017, the South African Reserve Bank issued operational licenses to 3 fully digital banks, escalating competitive dynamics across the sector.
Strategic Planning for AI-Enabled Cloud Business Intelligence in Commercial Banks: Comparative Evidence from South Africa and Nigeria
The research examines how strategic planning connects artificial intelligence and cloud-scale data infrastructure in commercial banking across South Africa and Nigeria.
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.
ESG Ratings: Final Regime
The FCA received 90 consultation responses from a wide range of stakeholders following the December 2025 consultation paper.
Review of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) - Key Messages from the Insurance Industry
European insurers manage €9.5 trillion in assets, serving as key institutional investors financing the transition to sustainability [p.1].
Growth Equity Update - September 2026 (Edition 54)
Pitchbook issued its latest global VC ranking, placing Accel, Index Ventures, Sequoia, Benchmark, and Andreessen Horowitz in its top five.
Forensic Auditing and Money Laundering Prevention: Perceptions and Challenges in Professional Accounting Practice
A total of 70 out of 125 contacted professionals in the canton of Loja participated in the quantitative study on forensic auditing.
Summary of SPOT Inspections on Communications to Clients in Relation to SCPIs
The AMF conducted a thematic SPOT inspection campaign across 4 investment services providers regarding client communications for SCPI real estate products.
Own-initiative OPSG Advice on Unlocking Investment Opportunities in the European Union
European insurers hold over EUR 10 trillion in assets, while Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provision (IORPs) manage roughly EUR 3 trillion.