Consumer Loans Research Articles

Christian Ethical Response to The Challenges of Digital Financial Borrowing in Nigeria

Digital financial borrowing is the money borrowed online through digital mobile applications, platforms or phones that are offered by financial lenders using the Internet. Due to the advancement in financial technology, banking and financial services and operations have been digitalized. The emergence of digital finance has rebranded banking and financial borrowing access and opportunities. People can now borrow money online, digitally and seamlessly. This development is applaudable because it eases traditional banking operations burdens and removes bottlenecks in borrowing and lending to finance business and personal needs. However, the attendant experiences from digital financial borrowing are worrisome and pose challenges to human well-being in developing economies, especially among Christians in Nigeria. Some of the experiences of digital financial borrowers are poor loan repayment, which may be due to high interest, breach of personal data policy and social shaming of defaulted borrowers by lending companies’ employees. The unvirtuous motives and characters of some borrowers, professionally unethical attitudes and loan recovery strategies are responsible for these challenges. This paper gives an overview of digital financial borrowing in Nigeria and discusses digital financial borrowing, which is characterized with features such as instant, automation, remote, consumer loans and short maturity. The paper argues that digital financial borrowing has assisted financial inclusion and contributed to Nigeria’s digital economy, it has however negatively impacted on borrowers’ personal, emotional, mental, marital, business, spiritual and moral well-being due to poor repayment or inability to repay, high interest, and social shaming of customers by digital loan officers. The paper concludes that Christians should act virtuously and ethically according to biblical instructions when dealing in financial borrowing, wisdom, honesty, godliness, discretion, patience and mutual respect are among Christian virtues to display in financial borrowing decisions, actions and relationships. It recommends that churches and church leaders should encourage financial education and literacy that enhance credit understanding and boost Christians’ financial wellness. It also recommends that Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria, with other financial regulatory bodies in Nigeria should regulate the operations of lending companies and enforce acceptable professional work ethics and attitudes of digital lending companies’ employees to enhance friendly relationships with customers.

DOES SUSTAINABILITY DISCLOSURE HAVE A MODERATING ROLE IN EXAMINING FIRM VALUE IN BANKING INDUSTRY?

This study seeks to experimentally assess the impact of financial performance on the firm value of the banking subsector and examine sustainability disclosure as a moderating variable. The study focused on banking subsector companies listed on the IDX in 2020-2022. Multiple linear regression was used to test cross-sectional data processed with Eviews 12. The test results demonstrate that profitability has a considerable beneficial impact on firm value. Meanwhile, leverage minimizes firm value because the primary banking business process involves consumer loans and receivables. Therefore, investors pay little attention to company debt. Sustainability disclosure cannot balance the relationship between financial success and firm value. The sustainability disclosures need to meet investors' expectations. Stakeholders may have differing perspectives on the relevance and influence of sustainability data on profitability and firm value.

Automotive Consumer Loans Risk Assessment Predictive Modeling Using Generative Adversarial Network and Stacked Autoencoder Neural Networks

In this study, we propose a predictive model for automotive consumer loans risk assessment, leveraging Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Stacked Autoencoder Neural Networks (SAEs). We address issues of high dimensionality and sparsity inherent in big data environments and tackle the class imbalance problem using GANs. Feature selection is effectively carried out using SAEs. Experimental results prove the superiority of our approach over traditional neural networks and our model without GANs or SAEs. The proposed model shows significant potential for application in personal credit risk assessment within automotive finance and beyond. Future work is aimed at extending and improving our model and applying it to other domains.

Environmental, Social, and Governance Scores and Loan Composition Inside United States Banks

We analyze the loan portfolios of United States banks from 2013 to 2023, showing that high environmental, social, and governance (ESG) banks have larger shares of consumer loans and commercial loans and smaller shares of construction loans and real estate loans. We also find that the governance pillar (G) is more tightly related to the bank loan composition compared to the environmental (E) and social (S) pillars. Furthermore, we show that construction loans and real estate loans decrease more considerably with bank ESG scores inside countries with high gas emissions, i.e., where ESG issues would arguably be more serious. Our interpretation is that sustainable banks are reluctant in lending money for real estate projects, exposing them to potentially high ESG risk. These findings contribute to developing a deeper insight about the relationship between ESG and bank lending, which, in the previous literature, has been treated more frequently in aggregate terms instead of separating loan types. Our outcomes suggest that sustainability is crucial for the availability of funds in the real estate sector, delivering important insights to bank and real estate managers, besides policy makers.

О ростовщичестве и преюдициальности в свете постановления Конституционного Суда по делу Филатова

On December 25, 2023, the Constitutional Court of Russia adopted Decree No. 60-P in Filatov case concerning usurious interest. The article substantiates that in interpreting the institution of prejudice, the new approach contradicts the numerous practices of the Constitutional Court itself, in particular, it introduces prejudice on issues of law, and not just fact. In addition, the Decree does not consider the key question of what are the usually charged interest rates in the sense of paragraph 5 of Article 809 of the Civil Code and, accordingly, what are the usurious interest rates? The author’s position on this issue is proposed, taking into account the European and American experience of limiting usury. In particular, it is suggested to unify the interest rate ceilings (caps) and also establish a maximum debt-to-loan ratio for B2C consumer loans and small B2B loans to individual entrepreneurs, regardless of who the creditor is.

Момент заключения договора потребительского кредита

The article deals with the problem of determination of the moment of conclusion of a consumer credit agreement in comparison with a consumer loan agreement, and presents the results of the analysis of the conditions on the moment of conclusion of the agreement offered by Russian banks. The study showed that banks use both a consensual and a real contract model. The author answers the question of which model is acceptable.

Interest rate spreads: Different stories for different types of loan

The paper studies the determinants of the interest rate spreads in Estonia, a country that stands out among European countries for its wide spreads and highly concentrated banking sector. Four distinct credit markets are considered for housing loans, consumer loans, long-term corporate loans and short-term corporate loans. The paper uses quarterly panel data from 2000Q1–2021Q1. It uses a two-stage approach to disaggregate the observed spread into a component determined by the bank-specific factors and a component determined by the market-specific factors, which is called pure spread. For each of the two components, we find substantial differences in the determinants of the spreads across different types of loan. While credit risk is important for long-term corporate and housing loans, inverse efficiency is significant in the segment of short-term loans. The contribution of market concentration to the pure spread is larger for household loans than for corporate loans.

Taking JD Baitiao as an Example for the Securitization of Internet Financial Consumer Loans: Research on the Structure and Potential Risk

Taking JD Baitiao as an Example for the Securitization of Internet Financial Consumer Loans: Research on the Structure and Potential Risk

What charge-off rates are predictable by macroeconomic latent factors?

Charge-offs provide critical insights into the risk level of loan portfolios within the banking system, signaling potential systemic risks that could lead to deep recessions. Utilizing consolidated financial statements, we have compiled the net charge-off rate (COR) data from the 10 largest U.S. bank holding companies (BHCs) for disaggregated loans, including business loans, real estate loans, and consumer loans, as well as the average COR for each loan category among these top 10 banks. We propose factor-augmented forecasting models for CORs that incorporate latent common factor estimates, including targeted factors, via an array of data dimensionality reduction methods for a large panel of macroeconomic predictors. Our models have demonstrated superior performance compared with benchmark forecasting models, particularly well for business loan and real estate loan CORs, while predicting consumer loan CORs remains challenging especially at short horizons. Notably, real activity factors improve the out-of-sample predictability over the benchmarks for business loan CORs even when financial sector factors are excluded.

Blanko menica kao sredstvo obezbeđenja potrošačkog kredita

The paper considers the sense of using the blank promissory note as a means of securing of consumer loan, while also questioning its purpose as means of security. The initial hypothesis is the legal absurdity of the same person being a debtor under the two different legal basis – promissory note and consumer loan. The same person is the guarantor for themselves – by signing the blank note they guarantee the performance of the consumer loan contract. That arrangement seems tautological having in mind that the same person, through two legal basis but with the same property, guarantees the performance of the underlying contract manifested in a consumer loan. This is the core proof of the absurdity of using the blank promissory note as collateral security.

Asymmetries in the interest rate channel in inflation-targeting Latin American countries

This paper presents, first, a theoretical model that, by highlighting that commercial banks with market power are able to positively pass on to their clients variations in their costs and, furthermore, that the strength with which they can do so is in turn asymmetrically related to the elasticity of the demand for loans exhibited by those clients, explains the asymmetric empirical findings shortly described. Secondly, it empirically investigates the pass-through of monetary policy rates (MPR) changes into the consumer and commercial loans interest rates set by commercial banks in four Latin American countries with inflation targeting (IT) schemes, namely (in alphabetic order) Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru, over a homogeneous period. To do so, it estimates Non-Linear Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag (NARDL) models for each country. Then, we find two types of important asymmetric responses in the interest rate channel of IT monetary policy. The first is that the long-run response of the consumer loans interest rates following increases in the MPR is greater than that of the commercial loans interest rates. The second is that, in general, when the demand is relatively more elastic (as in the case of commercial loans) then the banks interest rates tend to exhibit a greater response when the central bank lowers the MPR than when it raises it.

Pengaruh Penyaluran Kredit Perbankan Terhadap Pertumbuhan Ekonomi di Nusa Tenggara Timur Tahun 2013 – 2022

Banking plays a crucial role in society. Banks, as direct partners of the community, serve as the main drivers of the economy. The significance of the banking sector in shaping development directions, fostering economic growth, and enhancing societal welfare has been acknowledged by various societal elements. This study aims to examine the regression outcomes of variables such as working capital loans, investment loans, and consumer loans on economic upliftment in the region of East Nusa Tenggara Province. Multiple linear regression analysis, t-tests, and F-tests are employed as statistical methods to discern the relationships between several independent variables and the dependent variable in this research. Secondary data spanning a decade are collected from the Central Bureau of Statistics of East Nusa Tenggara Province. The findings reveal that economic growth in East Nusa Tenggara Province is positively and significantly influenced by investment loans and consumer loans, while working capital loans exhibit a negative and insignificant impact.

Consumer Default Risk Portrait: An Intelligent Management Framework of Online Consumer Credit Default Risk

Online consumer credit services play a vital role in the contemporary consumer market. To foster their sustainable development, it is essential to establish and strengthen the relevant risk management mechanism. This study proposes an intelligent management framework called the consumer default risk portrait (CDRP) to mitigate the default risks associated with online consumer loans. The CDRP framework combines traditional credit information and Internet platform data to depict the portrait of consumer default risks. It consists of four modules: addressing data imbalances, establishing relationships between user characteristics and the default risk, analyzing the influence of different variables on default, and ultimately presenting personalized consumer profiles. Empirical findings reveal that “Repayment Periods”, “Loan Amount”, and “Debt to Income Type” emerge as the three variables with the most significant impact on default. “Re-payment Periods” and “Debt to Income Type” demonstrate a positive correlation with default probability, while a lower “Loan Amount” corresponds to a higher likelihood of default. Additionally, our verification highlights that the significance of variables varies across different samples, thereby presenting a personalized portrait from a single sample. In conclusion, the proposed framework provides valuable suggestions and insights for financial institutions and Internet platform managers to improve the market environment of online consumer credit services.

Application of Genomic Data for Consumer Procedures in Banking

The use of genomic information in banking – in particular, when issuing consumer loans and identifying clients – determines areas for the development of legal regulation of the application of genomic information. The establishment of the legal regime for genomic information is important due to the need to designate responsible persons for ensuring the safety of such information. In order to avoid disputable situations, as well as to protect the interests of banking customers, the present work advocates the introduction of certain amendments to the Federal Law ‘On Personal Data’ of the Russian Federation (2006). According to the proposed amendments, genomic (genetic) information should be classified as personal data. It therefore becomes necessary to increase the responsibility of the recipient of such information, as well as to establish rules for the restoration of a violated right. A suitable package of measures aimed at the banking sector will create an effective mechanism for protecting the genomic information of customers provided to a credit institution for the purposes of receiving banking or other services

Consumption loans consuming homes: intersections of housing precarity and personal overindebtedness

Housing precarity as a condition referring to housing insecurity and unaffordability has been on the rise over the last decade across Europe and beyond. While various studies discuss the character of housing precarity and its links to (subprime) mortgage loans, the role of specific moral economies of debt in enacting housing policies which reinforce housing precarity is less developed in relation to other kinds of loans or the experience of debt enforcement. This article analyses fifty narrative interviews—thirty with debtors and twenty with institutional actors—and employs a processual methodology to highlight the performativity of personal debt and local housing policies. Performativity, enacted and modulated by moral economies of effort, (un)deservingness and (ir)responsibility, contributes to the remaking of housing precarity among indebted people, creating a vicious housing precarity-indebtedness loop. In the conclusion, we highlight the contingent and selective application of local housing policies which exclude the overindebted from municipal housing and discuss possible political and policy actions for overcoming the housing governance which generates this precarity.

Rural household vulnerability and COVID-19: Evidence from India.

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected vulnerable households' livelihoods in developing countries. Using high-frequency phone survey data from the World Bank, we assess rural Indian households' vulnerability and poverty status during the pandemic. Results reveal that over three-fifths of Indian rural households are vulnerable to poverty in the context of COVID-19, despite India's evident progress in mitigating poverty in the pre-pandemic era. Poverty plays a major role in accounting for variations in household vulnerability; however, the impact of risks on household welfare is not negligible. On average, households with more members, older household heads, and more outmigrants are more vulnerable to poverty during the pandemic. The impacts of the gender of the household head, access to masks, consumption loans, and COVID-related information are nevertheless insignificant. Results stress the urgent necessity of deploying concerted interventions to strengthen household vulnerability in rural India.

The Effect of Non-Performing Loans on Sector Profitability in the Turkish Banking Sector

The main purpose of this study is to determine the impact of non-performing loans (NPLs) on profitability of banking industry in Turkiye. In this study, in order to examine the basic indicators of profitability, non-performing receivables and consumer credit cards, non-performing housing and vehicle loans, non-performing consumer loans, consumer loans, loans and credit cards, net profit-loss and non-performing loans were compiled to generate a data set for the period between 2004 and 2018. Due to the different integration levels of the series obtained, models based on the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach, which is one of the time series regression methods, were established to analyze. Then, the effect of non-performing receivables on the banking sector profitability was examined. The initial findings reveal that the increase in non-performing receivables significantly reduced the profit of the banking sector.

Digital loans and buy now pay later from LendTech versus bank loans in the era of ‘black swans’: Complementarity in the area of consumer financing

Research background: People who take non-banking loans are primarily perceived as excluded from accessing bank services. The growth of e-commerce and the increasing digitalisation of customer interactions with banks was particularly accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic (the first ‘black swan’). These processes have also influenced the rapid growth of the LendTech (LT) sector within FinTech with its digital loans and buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) services. The war in Ukraine (the second ‘black swan’) has led to an energy crisis, increased inflation, interest rates and credit costs, and reduced credit accessibility. In this context, the following research questions are addressed: Are the LT and banking sectors complementary or substitutive in the area of consumer financing? Does complementarity apply to all customer segments and loan amounts? How does the extent of complementarity or substitutability of the LT sector depend on, and to what extent do changes in the regulatory and macroeconomic environment affect, the interaction between the banking and LT sectors? Purpose of the article: The aim of the article is to identify trends in the LT sector within FinTech in the context of assessing the scale and determinants of current and future complementarity of the non-bank sector and the banking sector in the area of consumer credit in time of black swans. An additional purpose of the article is to estimate revenues from the basic operating activities of companies from the on-line channel. Methods: The research process was multi-stage and the research procedure was structured. Due to the lack of a uniform source of data on LT products and services, the study used many data sources — data from the Credit Information Bureau, a primary nationwide survey on LT users a primary survey of people representing LT's managerial staff. The selection of LTs was carried out according to the concept of the monetary sampling unit. The Horvitz-Thompson estimator with Sen‐Yates‐Grundy variance form was used to estimate net operating income for LT from the online channel in 2021. Findings & value added: The LT companies surveyed state that black swans (the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine) and the current macroeconomic situation have not significantly affected demand for non-banking loans. The reduction in the opportunities for the LT sector as a result of anti-usury regulations will only lead to a shift in consumer demand to the pawnshop sector and the shadow economy, which will be detrimental to consumers. Complementarity between LT and the banking sector is revealed especially in crisis situations, thus limiting the effects of market shock (limited supply of loans offered by banks). In periods of stabilisation, a rather clear division of preferences is noticeable – in the case of seniors and loans for higher amounts, banks dominate, while in the case of lower amounts and in younger age groups, non-bank institutions are more popular. The mechanism by which shrinking banking services are replaced by LT in short-term crises confirms the importance of LT in balancing the Consumer Finance market in the face of unstable periods. From a medium- and long-term perspective, it should be noted that inflation and rising interest rates will increase the scale of credit exclusion in commercial banks, shifting part of the demand to the non-bank sector. These phenomena have an international dimension. Similar observations were made already in 2012 by the CFPB in the USA and the British FTA, when analysing the consumer finance market immediately after the subprime crisis, emphasising the effects of limiting access to bank consumer loans and the resulting growth of the LT market (Gębski, 2013).

Механизмы защиты потребителей цифровых финансовых услуг

Modern trends in digitalization, which are becoming global in nature, radically affect the financial sphere of people’s lives. The use of digital technologies and the capabilities of the Internet helps to speed up and facilitate access to various financial services. Currently, customers can take advantage of a wide range of financial services, ranging from payments (for example, for utilities) to obtaining a consumer loan, without even leaving their place of residence. Such operations can be carried out in various ways: through an ATM, payment terminal, information kiosk, mobile or Internet application, by sending SMS in other ways. Payment for such services can be made either in cash or non-cash, or using special digital means, for example, electronic money or cryptocurrency. However, for financial services clients, the progress and spread of digital technologies not only increases the comfort and speed of financial transactions, but also increases risks that need to be taken into account and analyzed, as well as mitigation measures taken. The object of the study is the economic and legal relations that arise in the process of consuming digital financial services. The purpose of the study is to characterize the current mechanisms for protecting consumers of digital financial services. Research methods - analysis and synthesis, documentary method, abstract-logical method, statistical method, comparative legal, logical-legal methods. The scientific novelty of the research is the systematization of trends in the development of digital financial services, the main risks for users of these services, as well as key areas and mechanisms for protecting consumers of digital financial services.

Modelling Wealth and Wealth Inequality in Bulgaria

This paper analyses net wealth and net wealth inequality determinants in Bulgaria, for the 2000-2020 period. The econometric results suggest that the introduction of corporate and individual flat tax rates in 2007 and 2008 contribute to households’ net wealth creation but have no significant association with inequality variables. Interest rates on mortgage loans, cost of debt, budget surpluses and inflation have a negative association with wealth, while the value of houses, arable land, equity, interest income, budget deficits contribute to net wealth growth. The top percentile increases its wealth share supported by the value of houses, equity and positive current account to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) values, however the cost of debt and GDP per capita are in a negative association with top percentile inequality. The bottom half of the population increases its wealth share with higher GDP per capita values and higher consumer loans rates, however inflation affects it negatively. Inflation and investment income are in a positive association with the Gini coefficient, while interest rates on consumer loans, cost of debt, GDP per capita, Government revenues, dividend income, equity, and the value of houses reduce inequality.