IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/vrs/irfinc/v9y2024i2p1-18n1001.html

Three Waves of FinTech Innovations and Their Implications for Financial Frauds and Anomalies

Author

Listed:
  • Cho Man

    (Emeritus Professor, KDI School of Public Policy and Management)

Abstract

The main objectives of this study are two-fold: first, to survey the technological innovations adopted in the financial service sector during the last three decades, commonly termed as FinTech, by categorizing them into three waves; and, to elaborate their implications for combating financial frauds and abusive intermediation practices. To that end, the paper also documents a sample of real-world cases observed in Korea and other countries which demonstrate the fraudulent and problematic practices in trading financial products that harm the welfare of financial consumers. Given these discussions, the paper elaborates three sets of remedies to deal with the anomalies, i.e., combating the financial fraudsters, overseeing the abusive intermediaries, and nudging financial consumers to make sound decisions.

Suggested Citation

  • Cho Man, 2024. "Three Waves of FinTech Innovations and Their Implications for Financial Frauds and Anomalies," International Review of Financial Consumers, Sciendo, vol. 9(2), pages 1-18.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:irfinc:v:9:y:2024:i:2:p:1-18:n:1001
    DOI: 10.2478/irfc-2024-0005
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.2478/irfc-2024-0005
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.2478/irfc-2024-0005?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Guttman-Kenney, Benedict & Firth, Chris & Gathergood, John, 2023. "Buy now, pay later (BNPL) ...on your credit card," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Elsevier, vol. 37(C).
    2. Pengpeng Yue & Aslihan Gizem Korkmaz & Zhichao Yin & Haigang Zhou, 2022. "The rise of digital finance: Financial inclusion or debt trap," Papers 2201.09221, arXiv.org.
    3. Waller, Christopher J. & Lewarne, Stephen, 1994. "An expository model of credit rationing," Journal of Macroeconomics, Elsevier, vol. 16(3), pages 539-545.
    4. Andreas Fuster & Matthew Plosser & Philipp Schnabl & James Vickery, 2019. "The Role of Technology in Mortgage Lending," The Review of Financial Studies, Society for Financial Studies, vol. 32(5), pages 1854-1899.
    5. Philippon, Thomas, 2016. "The FinTech Opportunity," CEPR Discussion Papers 11409, Centre for Economic Policy Research.
    6. Wenlong Bian & Lin William Cong & Yang Ji, 2023. "The Rise of E-Wallets and Buy-Now-Pay-Later: Payment Competition, Credit Expansion, and Consumer Behavior," NBER Working Papers 31202, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    7. Marco Di Maggio & Emily Williams & Justin Katz, 2022. "Buy Now, Pay Later Credit: User Characteristics and Effects on Spending Patterns," NBER Working Papers 30508, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    8. Jon Frost & Leonardo Gambacorta & Yi Huang & Hyun Song Shin & Pablo Zbinden, 2019. "BigTech and the changing structure of financial intermediation," Economic Policy, CEPR, CESifo, Sciences Po;CES;MSH, vol. 34(100), pages 761-799.
    9. Rajkamal Iyer & Asim Ijaz Khwaja & Erzo F. P. Luttmer & Kelly Shue, 2016. "Screening Peers Softly: Inferring the Quality of Small Borrowers," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 62(6), pages 1554-1577, June.
    10. Teece, David J., 2018. "Profiting from innovation in the digital economy: Enabling technologies, standards, and licensing models in the wireless world," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 47(8), pages 1367-1387.
    11. Erik Brynjolfsson & Danielle Li & Lindsey Raymond, 2025. "Generative AI at Work," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 140(2), pages 889-942.
    12. Beck, Thorsten & Pamuk, Haki & Ramrattan, Ravindra & Uras, Burak R., 2018. "Payment instruments, finance and development," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 133(C), pages 162-186.
    13. David de Meza & David C. Webb, 1987. "Too Much Investment: A Problem of Asymmetric Information," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 102(2), pages 281-292.
    14. Andreas Fuster & Paul Goldsmith‐Pinkham & Tarun Ramadorai & Ansgar Walther, 2022. "Predictably Unequal? The Effects of Machine Learning on Credit Markets," Journal of Finance, American Finance Association, vol. 77(1), pages 5-47, February.
    15. Marco Di Maggio & Vincent Yao, 2021. "Fintech Borrowers: Lax Screening or Cream-Skimming?," The Review of Financial Studies, Society for Financial Studies, vol. 34(10), pages 4565-4618.
    16. William Jack & Adam Ray & Tavneet Suri, 2013. "Transaction Networks: Evidence from Mobile Money in Kenya," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 103(3), pages 356-361, May.
    17. Sendhil Mullainathan & Jann Spiess, 2017. "Machine Learning: An Applied Econometric Approach," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 31(2), pages 87-106, Spring.
    18. Puri, Manju & Rocholl, Jörg & Steffen, Sascha, 2017. "What do a million observations have to say about loan defaults? Opening the black box of relationships," Journal of Financial Intermediation, Elsevier, vol. 31(C), pages 1-15.
    19. Gary Gorton, 2008. "The panic of 2007," Proceedings - Economic Policy Symposium - Jackson Hole, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, pages 131-262.
    20. Bresnahan, Timothy F. & Trajtenberg, M., 1995. "General purpose technologies 'Engines of growth'?," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 65(1), pages 83-108, January.
    21. Akter, Shahriar & Wamba, Samuel Fosso & Gunasekaran, Angappa & Dubey, Rameshwar & Childe, Stephen J., 2016. "How to improve firm performance using big data analytics capability and business strategy alignment?," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 182(C), pages 113-131.
    22. Georgios A. Panos & John O. S. Wilson, 2020. "Financial literacy and responsible finance in the FinTech era: capabilities and challenges," The European Journal of Finance, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(4-5), pages 297-301, March.
    23. Brad M. Barber & Xing Huang & Terrance Odean & Christopher Schwarz, 2022. "Attention‐Induced Trading and Returns: Evidence from Robinhood Users," Journal of Finance, American Finance Association, vol. 77(6), pages 3141-3190, December.
    24. Tobias Berg & Valentin Burg & Ana Gombović & Manju Puri, 2020. "On the Rise of FinTechs: Credit Scoring Using Digital Footprints," The Review of Financial Studies, Society for Financial Studies, vol. 33(7), pages 2845-2897.
    25. Ed deHaan & Jungbae Kim & Ben Lourie & Chenqi Zhu, 2024. "Buy Now Pay (Pain?) Later," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 70(8), pages 5586-5598, August.
    26. Julapa Jagtiani & Catharine Lemieux, 2019. "The roles of alternative data and machine learning in fintech lending: Evidence from the LendingClub consumer platform," Financial Management, Financial Management Association International, vol. 48(4), pages 1009-1029, December.
    27. Hal R. Varian, 2014. "Big Data: New Tricks for Econometrics," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 28(2), pages 3-28, Spring.
    28. Yue, Pengpeng & Korkmaz, Aslihan Gizem & Yin, Zhichao & Zhou, Haigang, 2022. "The rise of digital finance: Financial inclusion or debt trap?," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 47(PA).
    29. Man Cho, 2009. "Managing Mortgage Credit Risk: What Went Wrong With the Subprime and Alt-A Markets?," International Real Estate Review, Global Social Science Institute, vol. 12(3), pages 295-324.
    30. Wamba, Samuel Fosso & Gunasekaran, Angappa & Akter, Shahriar & Ren, Steven Ji-fan & Dubey, Rameshwar & Childe, Stephen J., 2017. "Big data analytics and firm performance: Effects of dynamic capabilities," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 70(C), pages 356-365.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Peter Eccles & Paul Grout & Paolo Siciliani & Anna Zalewska, 2021. "The impact of machine learning and big data on credit markets," Bank of England working papers 930, Bank of England.
    2. Vives, Xavier & Ye, Zhiqiang, 2025. "Fintech entry, lending market competition, and welfare," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 168(C).
    3. Tobias Berg & Andreas Fuster & Manju Puri, 2022. "FinTech Lending," Annual Review of Financial Economics, Annual Reviews, vol. 14(1), pages 187-207, November.
    4. Berg, Tobias & Burg, Valentin & Keil, Jan & Puri, Manju, 2025. "The economics of “Buy Now, Pay Later”: A merchant’s perspective," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 171(C).
    5. Soojin Park & Prida Erni Kesuma & Man Cho, 2021. "Did Financial Consumers Benefit from the Digital Transformation? An Empirical Investigation," IJFS, MDPI, vol. 9(4), pages 1-18, October.
    6. Kowalewski, Oskar & Pisany, Paweł, 2022. "Banks' consumer lending reaction to fintech and bigtech credit emergence in the context of soft versus hard credit information processing," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
    7. D Dulani Jayasuriya & Mohamed Ayaz & Michael Williams, 2023. "The use of digital footprints in the US mortgage market," Accounting and Finance, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 63(1), pages 353-401, March.
    8. Khan, Habib Hussain & Qureshi, Fiza & Jamali, Dima, 2025. "Digital disruption in financing: Are fintech and bigtech credit reshaping corporate access to capital?," Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Elsevier, vol. 103(C).
    9. Jia, Xiaoran, 2024. "FinTech penetration, charter value, and bank risk-taking," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 161(C).
    10. Bank for International Settlements, 2024. "Literature review on financial technology and competition for banking services," BCBS Working Papers 43, Bank for International Settlements.
    11. Yang, Tong & Zhang, Xun, 2022. "FinTech adoption and financial inclusion: Evidence from household consumption in China," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 145(C).
    12. Nguyen, Dat Thanh & Tran, Vuong Thao & Phan, Dinh Hoang Bach, 2025. "Lending in the crowd, receivables in decline: P2P lending and trade credit," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 86(PD).
    13. Zhou, Nan & Sun, Ruohan & Li, Yuan & Zhang, Longyao, 2025. "Joint effect of digital transformation and bank branch establishment on rural economic growth," Research in International Business and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 75(C).
    14. Gaibulloev, Khusrav & Mirzaei, Ali & Moore, Tomoe & Saad, Mohsen, 2025. "The effect of fintech financing on firm performance: Evidence from emerging economies," Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Elsevier, vol. 103(C).
    15. Choudhary, Priya & Thenmozhi, M., 2024. "Fintech and financial sector: ADO analysis and future research agenda," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 93(C).
    16. Beck, Thorsten & Gambacorta, Leonardo & Huang, Yiping & Li, Zhenhua & Qiu, Han, 2022. "Big techs, QR code payments and financial inclusion," CEPR Discussion Papers 17297, Centre for Economic Policy Research.
    17. Vives, Xavier & Ye, Zhiqiang, 2025. "Information technology and lender competition," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 163(C).
    18. Xia, Yanchun & Qiao, Zhilin & Xie, Guanghua, 2022. "Corporate resilience to the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of digital finance," Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 74(C).
    19. Wang, Xiaoting & Hou, Siyuan & Kyaw, Khine & Xue, Xupeng & Liu, Xueqin, 2023. "Exploring the determinants of Fintech Credit: A comprehensive analysis," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 126(C).
    20. Zhang, Xiaoyan & Li, Jinbao & Xiang, Dong & Worthington, Andrew C., 2023. "Digitalization, financial inclusion, and small and medium-sized enterprise financing: Evidence from China," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 126(C).

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:vrs:irfinc:v:9:y:2024:i:2:p:1-18:n:1001. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Peter Golla (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.sciendo.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.