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From Threat to Opportunity: Digital Infrastructure and Bank Adaptation to Cryptocurrency Cycles-Global Evidence
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As cryptocurrencies evolve from niche assets to systemic financial components, the banking sector faces a strategic dilemma: displacement or adaptation. Using 27,510 bank-year observations from 2014 to 2023 across thirty-two economies, predominantly within the European banking sector, this study isolates the technological prerequisites for this adaptation. We employ a continuous interaction model with robust controls to test how national digital infrastructure moderates bank responses to valuation cycles in the four dominant cryptocurrencies by market capitalization (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, and Binance Coin). The results document a robust lagged complementarity effect: in digitally advanced economies, cryptocurrency booms significantly increase bank non-interest income in the subsequent year, while lending portfolios remain unaffected. A one-standard-deviation increase in crypto returns interacts with digital capacity to boost fee revenue by approximately 0.7 percentage points (0.20 standard deviations). Crucially, this effect persists after controlling for GDP and equity market interactions, confirming that technological capacity, rather than general economic wealth, acts as the binding constraint. These findings refine FinTech adaptation research by demonstrating that high-bandwidth infrastructure enables banks to monetize external volatility via service deployment and custody, transforming a potential threat into a structural revenue stream.m.
Keywords:
FinTech adaptation
digital infrastructure
banking innovation
cryptocurrency markets
financial intermediation
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