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Relationship Between Financial Technology and Financial Performance

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The aim of current study is to investigate the impact of financial technology on the performance of Bahraini banks. The results indicates that the total level of applying financial technology by Bahraini banks was 70.51%, and it has a significant positive relationship with the financial performance. The study recommends that Bahraini banks to include more information about financial technology in the financial statements, and to indicate the level of resources invested in.

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Hannoon, A., Al-Sartawi, A.M.A.M., Khalid, A.A. (2021). Relationship Between Financial Technology and Financial Performance. In: Musleh Al-Sartawi, A.M.A. (eds) The Big Data-Driven Digital Economy: Artificial and Computational Intelligence. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 974. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73057-4_26

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