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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title How Green FinTech Can Alleviate the Impact of Climate Change - The Case of Switzerland
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Thomas Puschmann
  • Christian Hugo Hoffmann
  • Valentyn Khmarskyi
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Sustainability
Publisher MDPI Publishing
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 2071-1050
Volume 12
Number 24
Page Range 10691
Date 2020
Abstract Text The financial services industry is currently undergoing a major transformation, with digitization and sustainability being the core drivers. While both concepts have been researched in recent years, their intersection, often conceived as “green FinTech,” remains under‐determined. Therefore, this paper contributes to this important discussion about green FinTech by, first, synthesizing the relevant literature systematically. Second, it shows the results of an empirical, in‐ depth analysis of the Swiss FinTech landscape both in terms of green FinTech startups as well as the services offered by the incumbents. The research results show that literature in this new domain has only emerged recently, is mostly characterized by a specific focus on isolated aspects of green FinTech and does not provide a comprehensive perspective on the topic yet. In addition, the results from the literature and the market analysis indicate that green FinTech has an impact along the whole value chain of financial services covering customer‐to‐customer (c2c), business‐to‐customer (b2c), and business‐to‐business (b2b) services. Today the field is predominantly captured by startup companies in contrast to the incumbents whose solutions are still rare.
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Official URL https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/24/10691
Digital Object Identifier 10.3390/su122410691
Other Identification Number merlin-id:20415
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