The impact of financial technology on financial performance: An empirical study on the telecom companies in Iraq

This study mainly aims to know what is the impact of the use of financial technology through the portfolios allocated to mobile phones in telecommunications companies on the financial performance in the context of return on assets (ROA) and return on equity (ROE) from 2017 to 2022. Data was collected from the following sources: The Central Bank of Iraq, the Iraqi Stock Exchange and Asiacell Iraq and Zain Iraq Telecom companies in Iraq. This thesis will use the ARDL model bound testing approach proposed by Pesaran, Shin and Smith (2001) the goal of using this model is to analyze the short and long-run relationship between financial technology and financial performance for the period 2017-2022. To test the relationship between the variables the Eviews statistical program will be used. The bounds test of the four models showed that there is a common integration and long-term balance between financial technology and financial performance in Zain Cash and Asia Hawala for the period (2017-2022). The results of the study show that there is a positive relationship between financial technology and financial performance.