PurposeThe purpose of this study is to define FinTech, differentiating it from
financial technology and use the definition to develop an industry
framework.Design/methodology/approachUsing the existing literature on FinTech
and incorporating these contributions into a traditional financial structure,
characteristics are outlined and placed into a framework that describes the
FinTech industry.Findi... hiện toàn bộ
PurposeThe paper aims to investigate the monthly and trading month effects in
the stock market returns of the ASE using daily data before and after the crisis
of 1999‐2001. In addition, the study seeks to consider data from both periods of
the ASE, before and after the upgrade of the market (May
2001).Design/methodology/approachThis paper examines the calendar effects in the
Greek stock market ret... hiện toàn bộ
Muhammad Zubair Tauni, Zia-ur-Rehman Rao, Hong Fang, Minghao Gao
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of the key
sources of information, namely, financial advice, word-of-mouth communication
and specialized press, on trading behavior of Chinese stock investors. The study
also analyzed if the association between the key sources of information and
trading behavior is influenced by investor personality.
Design/methodology/approach The aut... hiện toàn bộ
Only recently have the applications of expert systems in finance received
tremendous attention from not only the practitioners but the academicians as
well. Widespread applications of this technology in diverse financial problems
include credit management loan evaluation portfolio analysis capital budgeting
cash flow analysis, and so forth. Another problem area that can benefit from
this technolog... hiện toàn bộ
Traces China’s foreign debt policy from 1978 to the present and compares its
short and long term debt structure with Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, the
Phillippines and Thailand (i.e. five countries suffering from the Asian economic
crisis). Points out that in the 1980s, when all six had high growth rates, China
had a severe financial crisis while the others did not: a situation reversed in
the 1990s... hiện toàn bộ
It may be instructive to examine the reaction of the accounting profession to
the inflationary phenomenon in the ten countries in which tentative or final
positions have been taken. The record is curious indeed.
The topic of employee reporting has attracted the interests of practitioners and
academics in recent years, particularly in relation to the annual published
financial ducuments, known as an Employee Report, used by a number of companies.
The practice of giving financial information to employees can be traced back to
the last century, although its more popular use dates from the Second World War.
PurposeIn contrast to common literature that suggests that trade credit is an
extremely expensive source of financing with annual interest rates exceeding 40
percent, this paper seeks to argue that the average interest rate of trade
credit does not exceed the cost of alternative funds, thereby explaining why
trade credit constitutes a substantial part of the optimal financing mix of
large, liquid,... hiện toàn bộ
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to provide an initial test of the validity
of an intertemporal stewardship theory. This theory incorporates stewardship
considerations, based on a foundation of spirituality, as well as financial
considerations into financial decision‐making
models.Design/methodology/approachContends that successful contemporary
companies incorporate both financial and stewardsh... hiện toàn bộ
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to assess the association between Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) tenure, compensation, and firm's
performance.Design/methodology/approachThe paper compares the influence firms'
performance on CEOs' cash and total compensation based on the length of tenure.
It also examines pay–performance relationship for new CEOs vs those serving
their last year in such position... hiện toàn bộ