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  •   Free full-text access Open AccessGovernance of FinTech Innovations in Islamic banking: the role and challenges of Sharia supervisory boards in the GCC
    ( Free Full-text Access ) CC-BY-NC-ND
    by Abdelrhman Meero 
    Abstract: Our study examines how the timing of Sharia Supervisory Board (SSB) involvement, SSB members digital literacy, and SSBs effectiveness may influence the quality of SSBs FinTech governance. Sharia governance theory (SGT), resource-based view theory (RBV), and institutional theory (IT) grounded the study's theoretical framework. A questionnaire was used to collect data from 80 experts in GCC. The result shows that early SSB involvement doesn't significantly affect governance effectiveness (r = 0.07, p = 0.55). It also shows that digital literacy and multidisciplinary expertise have a positive effect on the SSBs governance effectiveness (r = 0.21, p 0.06). A significant negative relationship between perceived effectiveness and support for a unified GCC-level SSB (B = 0.684, p = 0.041) indicates that institutional weaknesses heighten demand for regional harmonisation. The study provides significant contribution to literature as the first region-wide empirical evidence linking SSB human capital to FinTech governance. Implications include increasing the diversity of SSB members' areas of expertise and providing members with better digital literacy.
    Keywords: Islamic FinTech; Sharia governance; Sharia supervisory boards; SSB; digital literacy; resource-based view theory; RBV; institutional theory; GCC.
    DOI: 10.1504/IJEBR.2025.10074957
     

 

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