In this paper, the microfinance services are evaluated in the context of small-scale businesses in Jordan. The aim of this study is to emphasize on the importance of factors related to micro-finance as it helps in enhancing the firm’s performance. This study utilizes a quantitative approach to conduct a research on approximately 308 small-scale businesses. The study employs a method of confirmatory component analysis (CFA) held by applied Structure Equation Modelling (SEM) to achieve the research objective. The results demonstrate that performance was significantly associated with various micro-finance services such as training for managers, training skills, and loan size. In particular, micro-finance programs should be considered by small entrepreneurs, micro-finance institutions, and policy makers. Thus, the contribution of this work is the incorporation of micro-finance factors on SMEs performance. Managers of the SMEs will find guidance about which micro-finance factors is the most important for them to be considered in their roles and for improving SMEs performance.

Supply Chain Finance (SCF) is playing an increasingly important role in operational and financial practices and attracted growing attention from academia and industry alike. However, researchers have not yet been totally able to reach a consensus on the definition of this phenomenon. The study presented in the paper provides an overview of the advancements present in research on Financial Supply Chain Management. Using a bibliometric analysis approach, the paper summarizes the trends of development and the status quo of the Financial Supply Chain Management. The aim is to provide the reader with guidance and a solid conceptual framework for future research.

The purpose of the current paper is to identify influential aspects of published literature and future research questions to set forth future research agenda based on comprehensive literature review using bibliometric and content analysis. The study analyzed 1225 documents from the international Scopus database using bibliometric analysis and content analysis. VOSviewer software is used for bibliometric analysis. The analysis revealed that most of the information was derived from the Finance Research Letters. Moreover, the United Kingdom is the most cited country, while Tianjin University in China has the highest publications affiliations. Furthermore, the analysis shows that the keyword analysis of cryptocurrency literature had four classes of research streams in cryptocurrency, namely, cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Fintech, and currency, representing the most upcoming trends. The present study makes a significant contribution to the literature by providing a framework for future research. The framework provides opportunities to future researchers to explore the web of relations among some identified research streams as future research agenda.