What's Your Bank's FinTech Score? Technology Integrating Banking Into the Broker Intermediation Model

66 Pages Posted: 8 Jan 2021 Last revised: 12 Apr 2024

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Linda Allen

City University of New York, Baruch College - Zicklin School of Business - Department of Economics and Finance

Yu Shan

Syracuse University - Whitman School of Management

Yi Tang

Fordham University - Gabelli School of Business

Alev Yildirim

CUNY Queens College

Date Written: March 23, 2023

Abstract

We define FinTech as banks' integration of technology into the broker intermediation model. Unlike traditional dealer banks relying on leveraged balance sheets for intermediation, FinTech banks adopt a technology-driven broker model. Using nonlinear and machine learning algorithms, we develop an empirical "FinTech score" that shows on-balance sheet lending for low-FinTech-score banks versus securitization, brokered deposits, and non-interest income for high-score banks. Using two complementary measures of operational efficiency, we find that this technology-driven shift in business models (either holistically or via mergers) helps explain reductions in the cost of financial intermediation. Our bank-specific, time-varying FinTech score provides insights into the distribution of FinTech integration into U.S. banking.

Keywords: FinTech, operational efficiency, broker, dealer, market making, match making, AI, IT

JEL Classification: G20, G21, G23, G24

Suggested Citation

Allen, Linda and Shan, Yu and Tang, Yi and Yildirim, Alev, What's Your Bank's FinTech Score? Technology Integrating Banking Into the Broker Intermediation Model (March 23, 2023). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3703840 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3703840

Linda Allen (Contact Author)

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Yu Shan

Syracuse University - Whitman School of Management ( email )

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Syracuse, NY 13244-2130
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Yi Tang

Fordham University - Gabelli School of Business ( email )

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New York, NY 10023
United States

Alev Yildirim

CUNY Queens College ( email )

Flushing, NY 11367
United States

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