How Does FinTech Affect Bank Diversification versus Specialization Decisions? Evidence for the Chinese Banking Industry

Minzhi Wu and Emili Tortosa-Ausina

Chapter 9 in Banking Resilience:New Insights on Corporate Governance, Sustainability and Digital Innovation, 2024, pp 303-341 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: The emergence of FinTech has reshaped the financial sector landscape worldwide, while its potential effects are still far from clear. This chapter investigates the influence of FinTech on diversification strategies of traditional banks in China between 2012 and 2018. To this end, we construct measures of diversification from the two main perspectives taken into account so far in the literature: income-based indicators and asset-based indicators. The Peking University Digital Financial Inclusion Index is used to measure FinTech development in China; the methodological approach is instrumental quantile regression. The overall results establish a significant and positive link between FinTech and bank income diversification during the sample period, especially for national shareholding commercial banks. However, asset diversification strategies are not sensitive to FinTech for all bank tiers in China.

Keywords: Corporate Governance, Board Characteristics, Board Structure, Banking Institutions, Historical Literature Review, Financial Crisis, Bank Risk, CEO, Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, Bank Efficiency, Board Governance, Board Size, Board Independence, Gender Diversity, Blau Index, Risk-adjusted Bank Performance, Tobin's Q, Return-on-Risk-Adjusted-Capital, Sharpe Ratio, Sortino Ratio, Board Diversity, Bank Risk, Bank Performance, Cost Efficiency, Bank Stability, Cultural Openness, Women Directors, Foreign Directors, Directors Educational Level, Islamic Banks, Board Diversity, Gender Diversity, Gender Quota, Emerging Economy, Bank Outcomes, Attendance, Board Effectiveness, Private Banks, Public Sector Banks, India, Corporate Social Responsibility, ESG, Sustainable Finance, Responsible Investing, Socially Responsible Banks, Risk Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Financial Stability, Sustainability, Firm Value, Climate Finance, Policy Uncertainty, Financial Stability, Climate Risk, Bibliometric Analysis, Financial Markets, Financial Assets, Asset Pricing, Capital Flows, Sustainability, Accruals, Earnings Management, Accounting Value, National Culture , Cultural Dimensions , Collective Intelligence , Secrecy, Intelligence Quotient, International Accounting, Covid-19, Pandemic, Impact, Risk, GCC Banks, GCC Islamic Banks, Conventional Banks, Profitability, Capitalization, Resilience, Asset-based Indicators, Bank, China, Density, Diversification, FinTech, Focus, Income-Based Indicators, Kernel, Quantile Regression, Big Data, Economic Capital, Emerging Markets, FinTech, GARCH-M (1; 1), GCC Financial Markets, Liquidity Risk, Reinforcement Machine Learning, Risk Management, Portfolio Management, Liquidity-Adjusted Value at Risk, Risk Metrics, Risk Spillover Effects, Internet Finance, GARCH Models, VaR Models, CoVaR Models, Securities Firms, COVID-19, Systemic Risks, China, Regulatory Reporting, Systemic Risk, Financial Stability, SupTech, RegTech, Financial Reporting, Algorithmic Data Standards, Blockchain, Financial Crisis, BCBS 239, Banks, Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Political Connections, Trade-Off Theory, Pecking Order Theory, Capital Structure, Risk, Profitability, Speed Of Adjustment, Generalized Method of Moments (GMM), Flash Crash, High Frequency Traders, Regulatory Framework, Algorithms, Algorithmic Trading (AT), Financial Market, Capital Market, (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G21 G3 G34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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