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Fintech Innovations in Banking: Fintech Partnership and Default Rate on Bank Loans

WP 25-21 – We explore whether banks could leverage data and technology to expand their customer base without taking on more credit risk. Previous studies have not explored the impact of fintech partnerships on the quality of banks’ loan portfolios.

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Credit Scores and Rising Credit Card Delinquencies

Economic Insights — COVID disrupted credit scores. What, if anything, did that have to do with the subsequent rise in credit card delinquencies?

A Guide to Understanding Mortgage-Backed Securities

Research in Focus — James Vickery of the Philadelphia Fed and his coauthors discuss the mortgage-backed securities (MBS) market in detail, with a special focus on government-backed residential MBS.

Token-Based Platform Governance

WP 25-17 – We develop a model to compare the governance of a traditional platform to the governance of a platform that issues digital tokens to users.

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Institutions in the Third District

This interactive tool summarizes information about banks and holding companies within the Third District (comprising eastern and central Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware) and provides each institution’s location and asset size as of the most recent quarter.

Updated: 19 May ’25

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Third District Banking Conditions

Third District Banking Conditions is a semiannual report comparing the trends of Third District community banks with their national peers.

Updated: 10 Mar ’25

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Large Bank Credit Card and Mortgage Data

The Large Bank Consumer Credit Data are based on Y-14M credit card and mortgage data provided by the largest financial institutions in the United States.

Updated: 08 Jul ’25