LIABILITY AND ANTIFRAUD INVESTMENT IN FINTECH RETAIL PAYMENT SERVICES

Kyoung Soo Yoon, Jooyong Jun

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Abstract

Motivated by recently introduced retail payment schemes using information technology, often called “FinTech,” we examine the effect of fraud liability regime on antifraud investment in a FinTech payment scheme, where the front-end and back-end services are vertically separated. In an environment where a FinTech payment service provider (FPP) covers only the front-end services, delegating the back-end services to an integrated payment service provider (IPP) such as banks and credit card companies, we show that under the IPP liability regime, the IPP invests more in general, while the respective investment depends on the range of the access fee under the FPP liability regime. Specifically, given a sufficiently great loss from accident, if the access fee is in a certain range, the FPP liability regime is superior in terms of antifraud investment. When the FPP makes its indirect revenue from its user base in addition to the revenue from user fees, we can observe greater antifraud investment under both liability regimes, but the overall decrease in fraud probability is higher under the IPP liability regime. Our results suggest that it might be desirable to induce FPP liability regime, which might necessitate regulating the access fee to achieve such an outcome. (JEL G23, G28, D43, L22).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)181-194
Number of pages14
JournalContemporary Economic Policy
Volume37
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2019

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