Part of the series :
This paper provides an introduction to financial technology and blockchain, while exploring:
- the impact of FinTechs and TechFins on the financial sector,
- a description of blockchain technology and its applications, with a focus on cryptocurrencies,
- the impact on financial inclusion,
- risks and challenges,
- applications for international financial institutions and their clients.
All publications in this series
- EIB Working Papers 2012/01 – Strategic adaptation to climate change in Europe
- EIB Working Papers 2012/02 – The Role of Economic Policy in Climate Change Adaptation
- EIB Working Papers 2012/03 – Choosing the optimal climate change policy in the presence of catastrophic risk
- EIB Working Papers 2012/04 – Green Electricity Investment in Europe: Development Scenarios for Generation and Transmission Investments
- EIB Working Papers 2012/05 - The costs of climate-change adaptation in Europe: a review
- EIB Working Papers 2013/01 - Infrastructure Investments in Eastern Neighbours and Central Asia (ENCA)
- EIB Working Papers 2013/02 - Private Infrastructure Finance and Investment in Europe
- EIB Working Papers 2015/01 – Competitiveness of the European economy
- EIB Working Papers 2016/01 – Infrastructure Investment in Europe and International Competitiveness
- EIB Working Papers 2016/02 – International Financial Flows in the New Normal: Key Patterns (and Why We Should Care)
- EIB Working Papers 2016/03 – Collateral Regimes and Missing Job Creation in the MENA Region
- EIB Working Papers 2016/04 – Project Finance in Europe: An Overview and Discussion of Key Drivers
- EIB Working Papers 2016/05 – Banks Credit and Productivity Growth in the EU
- EIB Working Papers 2016/06 – Financing energy innovation: The role of financing constraints for directed technical change from fossil-fuel to renewable innovation
- EIB Working Papers 2016/07 – Cross border banking: pull-push effects of parent banks on subsidiaries’ credit extensions
- EIB Working Papers 2016/08 – Intangible investment in the EU and US before and since the Great Recession and its contribution to productivity growth
- EIB Working Papers 2017/01 – Stabilising virtues of central banks: (re)matching bank liquidity
- EIB Working Papers 2017/02 – Credit Guarantee Schemes for SME lending in Western Europe
- EIB Working Papers 2017/03 – Loan characteristics, Firm Preferences and Investment: Evidence from a unique experiment
- EIB Working Papers 2018/01 – What Finance for What Investment? Survey-Based Evidence for European Companies
- EIB Working Papers 2018/02 – Access to Finance and Innovative activity of EU firms: a Cluster Analysis
- EIB Working Papers 2018/03 – The corporate equity puzzle
- EIB Working Papers 2018/04 – Investment of financially distressed firms: the role of trade credit
- EIB Working Papers 2018/05 - Sovereign risk and corporate cost of borrowing: Evidence from a counterfactual study
- EIB Working Papers 2018/06 - Resource Misallocation in European Firms: The Role of Constraints, Firm Characteristics and Managerial Decisions
- EIB Working Papers 2018/07 - Young SMEs: Driving Innovation in Europe?
- EIB Working Papers 2018/08 - Debt Overhang and Investment Efficiency
- EIB Working Papers 2019/02 - How energy audits promote SMEs’ energy efficiency investment
- EIB Working Papers 2019/03 - Financing and obstacles for high growth enterprises: the European case
- EIB Working Papers 2019/04 - Can survey-based information help to assess investment gaps in the EU?
- EIB Working Papers 2019/05 - Skill shortages and skill mismatch in Europe: A review of the literature
- EIB Working Papers 2019/06 - Promoting energy audits: Results from an experiment
- EIB Working Papers 2019/08 - Investment: What holds Romanian firms back?
- EIB Working Papers 2019/07 - What firms don’t like about bank loans: New evidence from survey data
- EIB Working Papers 2019/09 - The impact of international financial institutions on small and medium enterprises: The case of EIB lending in Central and Eastern Europe
- EIB Working Papers 2019/10 - Structural and cyclical determinants of access to finance: Evidence from Egypt
- EIB Working Papers 2019/11 - Macro-based asset allocation: An empirical analysis
- EIB Working Papers 2020/01 - How can favourable financing improve energy efficiency investments? Evidence from new experimental data
- EIB Working Papers 2020/02 - Impact of FDI on economic growth: The role of country income levels and institutional strength
- EIB Working Papers 2020/03 - Employer provided training in Europe: Determinants and obstacles
- EIB Working Papers 2020/04 - Making a difference: Assessing the impact of the EIB's funding to SMEs
- EIB Working Paper 2020/05 - Financing constraints and employers’ investment in training
- EIB Working Paper 2020/06 - Digital technologies and firm performance: Evidence from Europe
- EIB Working Paper 2020/07 - The growing digital divide in Europe and the United States
- EIB Working Paper 2020/08 - EIB Group Survey on Investment and Investment Finance
- EIB Working Paper 2020/09 - Investment vs debt trade-offs in the post-COVID-19 European economy