Is financial technology a complement or substitute for domestic financial institutions in Ghana?

IF 1.3 Q3 ECONOMICS

Journal of Financial Economic Policy Pub Date : 2023-07-12 DOI:10.1108/jfep-02-2023-0038

Kwadwo Antwi-Wiafe, G. Asante, Paul Owusu Takyi

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Purpose This paper aims to examine whether financial technology is complementing the performance of domestic financial institutions or substituting their performance in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach The paper used data from the Bank of Ghana Payment System Statistics and Time Series Data of the Bank of Ghana from 2012 to 2021, by using autoregressive distributive lags estimation technique. Findings The results showed that in both the long run and short run, financial technology has a significant negative impact on bank performance, indicating that fintech serves as substitutes rather than complements for Ghanaian banks. These results suggest that there must be a critical review on the interoperability policy in Ghana and that banks should take advantage of the financial technology to increase profit. Originality/value Based on the authors’ study, no empirical work has been extensively done in the Ghanaian context by examining how financial technology serves as either a complement or substitute for domestic banking institutions. This paper focuses on exploring the key definition of financial technology in Ghana and how transactions through these media are affecting or improving the performance of banks.

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金融科技是对加纳国内金融机构的补充还是替代?

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Journal of Financial Economic Policy ECONOMICS-

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Financial Economic Policy publishes high quality peer reviewed research on financial economic policy issues. The journal is devoted to the advancement of the understanding of the entire spectrum of financial policy and control issues and their interactions to economic phenomena. Economic and financial phenomena involve complex trade-offs and linkages between various types of risk factors and variables of interest to policy makers and market participants alike. Market participants such as economic policy makers, regulators, banking and competition supervisors, corporations and financial institutions, require timely and robust answers to the contemporary and emerging policy questions. In turn, such answers require thorough input by the academics, policy makers and practitioners alike. The Journal of Financial Economic Policy provides the forum to satisfy this need. The journal publishes and invites concise papers to enable a prompt response to current and emerging policy affairs.