{"id":8565,"date":"2020-07-09T09:14:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T08:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.economicsobservatory.com\/ongoing-research\/the-global-impact-of-covid-19-on-fintech-adoption"},"modified":"2020-07-09T09:14:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T08:14:45","slug":"the-global-impact-of-covid-19-on-fintech-adoption","status":"publish","type":"ongoing-research","link":"https:\/\/www.economicsobservatory.com\/test\/ongoing-research\/the-global-impact-of-covid-19-on-fintech-adoption","title":{"rendered":"The global impact of Covid-19 on fintech adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We draw on mobile application data from 74 countries to document the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the adoption of digital finance and fintech. We estimate that the spread of Covid-19 and related government lockdowns have led to between a 22 and 32 percent increase in the relative rate of daily downloads of finance mobile applications. In absolute terms, this equates to an average daily increase of roughly 5.1 to 6.3 million application downloads, an increase of about 280 million app downloads since the pandemic outbreak and compared to a priori trends. Most regions across the world exhibit notable increases in absolute, relative, and per capita terms. Preliminary analysis of country-level characteristics suggests that market size and demographics, rather than level of economic development and ex-ante adoption rates, drive differential trends.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","categories":[],"frequency":[],"type_of_data":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The global impact of Covid-19 on fintech adoption - Economics Observatory<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.economicsobservatory.com\/test\/ongoing-research\/the-global-impact-of-covid-19-on-fintech-adoption\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The global impact of Covid-19 on fintech adoption - Economics Observatory\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We draw on mobile application data from 74 countries to document the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the adoption of digital finance and fintech. 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