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Finance and Financial Management

The British University in Egypt

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2023

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The Profitability And Credit Risk Of The Egyptian Banking Sector: Do Financial Technology Entrants Have An Impact?, Rania Pasha, Shaza Ayman Abdalla Dec 2023

The Profitability And Credit Risk Of The Egyptian Banking Sector: Do Financial Technology Entrants Have An Impact?, Rania Pasha, Shaza Ayman Abdalla

Business Administration

This paper examines the impact of fintech on the profitability and credit risk of 20 banks in Egypt for the period from 2017 to 2021. ROA and ROE are used to measure profitability in addition to Z-score as a measure of credit risk. Moreover, new fintech indicators are employed in this study, as measured by the growth in fintech funding volume, growth in the number of fintech startups, and growth in the number of fintech funding deals. Fintech has demonstrated its impact on the profitability and level of credit risk in banks in different countries. Nevertheless, to the authors’ knowledge, …