Fintech and big tech credit: a new database

Leonardo Gambacorta, Giulio Cornelli, Jon Frost, Raghavendra Rau, Robert Wardrop and Tania Ziegler

No 15357, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: Fintech and big tech platforms have expanded their lending around the world. We estimate that the flow of these new forms of credit reached USD 223 billion and USD 572 billion in 2019, respectively. China, the United States and the United Kingdom are the largest markets for fintech credit. Big tech credit is growing fast in China, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia and some countries in Africa and Latin America. Cross-country panel regressions show that such lending is more developed in countries with higher GDP per capita (at a declining rate), where banking sector mark-ups are higher and where banking regulation is less stringent. Fintech credit is larger where there are fewer bank branches per capita. We also find that fintech and big tech credit are more developed where the ease of doing business is greater, and investor protection disclosure and the efficiency of the judicial system are more advanced, the bank credit-to-deposit ratio is lower and where bond and equity markets are more developed. Overall, alternative credit seems to complement other forms of credit, rather than substitute for them.

Keywords: Fintech; Big tech; Credit; Data; Technology; Digital innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E51 G23 O31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-10
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