--- title: "Research ideas tagged banking" description: "14 research idea notes tagged “banking”." url: https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/tags/banking markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/tags/banking.md license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) share_text: "14 research idea notes tagged “banking”." --- # Research ideas tagged “banking” 14 research idea notes tagged “banking”. - [Did fintech make banking more competitive?](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/fintech-entry-and-bank-competition.md) (2026-10-26, seed): Bank competition appears on 68 recent papers, but only 19 bank-competition papers carry a fintech, digital or platform keyword. Fintech lenders and digital banks were supposed to erode banks' market power. Did loan and deposit margins actually fall where they entered, and for whom? Tags: finance, banking, competition. - [How banks priced deposits through the rate cycle](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/deposit-pricing-in-the-rate-cycle.md) (2026-10-26, seed): Deposit rates appear on only 31 recent papers, although the gap between policy rates and what banks paid savers was one of the largest transfers of the 2022–2024 tightening. How fast did deposit rates follow policy rates this time, and what made some banks pay more? Tags: finance, banking, monetary policy. - [Zombie firms after the end of cheap money](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/zombie-firms-after-cheap-money.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Capital reallocation is a fast-rising keyword in the economics journals. After a decade of near-zero rates, interest rates rose almost everywhere, and Japan ended negative rates in 2024. Did higher rates finally clear out zombie firms and move capital to productive ones? Tags: economics, finance, banking. - [Sustainability-linked loans: do the targets bite?](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/sustainability-linked-loans.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Green credit and green loans appear on 58 recent papers, most of them about China's green credit policy, while sustainability-linked loans, whose interest rate moves with the borrower's ESG targets, appear on only 3. Are the targets ambitious, are they met, and does the rate step actually change behaviour? Tags: finance, banking, esg. - [Does macroprudential tightening push credit into shadow banks?](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/shadow-banks-and-macroprudential-leakage.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Macroprudential policy and financial intermediation are both rising in the finance journals, but papers that follow credit out of the regulated banking system are rare, and none of them is in an economics journal. When regulators tighten on banks, how much lending simply moves to shadow banks and private credit funds? Tags: finance, economics, banking. - [Loan officers versus algorithms](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/loan-officers-versus-algorithms.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Soft information and relationship lending appear on 26 recent papers in the finance and economics journals, but only 5 of them carry an algorithm, machine-learning, fintech or automation keyword. As banks automate small-business lending, what is lost when the loan officer's judgment goes, and can models learn it? Tags: finance, banking, ai. - [Interest rate risk on bank balance sheets](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/interest-rate-risk-on-bank-balance-sheets.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Interest rate risk appears on just 11 recent papers in the finance journals, only one of them in July–September 2026, although unrealized losses on bank bond holdings triggered the 2023 bank failures. Which banks still carry large unrealized losses, and does supervision now see them? Tags: finance, banking. - [Flood risk in mortgage lending](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/flood-risk-in-mortgage-lending.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Climate risk is one of the most frequent keywords in the finance journals, yet only 5 of 82 recent mortgage papers carry a flood, climate-risk or disaster keyword. Do lenders price flood risk into mortgages, and do they pass the riskiest loans to government-backed buyers? Tags: finance, banking, climate. - [Fiscal expansion and bank credit in the euro area](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/fiscal-expansion-and-bank-credit-in-the-euro-area.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Government spending, borrowing costs and the euro area are all rising keywords in the finance journals. When governments borrow more, domestic banks often buy the bonds. Does that crowd out bank lending to firms, and which firms lose the most? Tags: finance, economics, banking, macroeconomics. - [Federated learning against money laundering](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/federated-learning-against-money-laundering.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Federated learning, which trains one model across organizations without pooling their data, is a large topic in the AI journals, yet only 7 of 398 recent papers on it carry a finance, banking, fraud or money-laundering keyword. Money launderers spread transactions across banks precisely because no single bank sees the whole pattern. Can banks catch them together without sharing customer data? Tags: ai, finance, banking. - [Expected credit losses in their first real test](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/expected-credit-losses-in-the-first-real-test.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Loan loss provisions appear on 23 recent papers in the finance and accounting journals, IFRS 9 on 5 and CECL on 3. The expected-loss rules were designed after 2008 to make banks provision earlier. The 2022–2024 rate shock and the pandemic were their first real tests. Did provisions move earlier, or just more? Tags: accounting, banking. - [Do climate stress tests change lending?](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/climate-stress-tests-and-lending.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Stress testing appears on 40 recent papers in the finance journals, and climate stress testing on 12. Central banks in Europe and Asia have run climate scenarios on their banks. Did banks that fared badly in the scenarios cut lending to exposed borrowers, or only write longer reports? Tags: finance, banking, climate. - [Would a digital currency drain bank deposits?](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/cbdc-and-bank-deposits.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Central bank digital currencies appear on 56 recent papers in the finance and economics journals, but only 14 of them carry a deposit, bank-lending, bank-run or financial-stability keyword. Pilots now run in China, Europe and elsewhere. If people can hold central bank money directly, how much would leave banks, and when? Tags: finance, banking, monetary policy. - [Bank runs at the speed of social media](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/bank-runs-at-social-media-speed.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Deposit insurance and market discipline are rising topics after bank failures in which deposits left within hours. Yet only 3 recent papers on bank runs or deposits carry a social-media or digital-banking keyword. Does online talk now set the speed of runs, and should deposit insurance and liquidity rules change with it? Tags: finance, banking. ## Cite this page Scholar4AI. (2026). Research ideas tagged “banking”. Journal Research Rankings. 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