Rate My Professor Linda Allen

Professor Linda Allen holds the William F. Aldinger Chair in Banking and Finance and serves as Presidential Professor of Finance in the Bert Wasserman Department of Economics and Finance at Baruch College's Zicklin School of Business, part of the City University of New York. She is a leading figure in Business & Economics with a specialty in banking and finance. Allen earned her B.A. summa cum laude from Queens College, CUNY, in 1975, and her Ph.D. in Economics and Finance from New York University in 1984. Earlier in her career, she held faculty positions at Queens College and Hofstra University.

Allen's research specializations include FinTech, credit risk measurement and management, banking regulation, financial innovation, and systemic risk in financial institutions. She has authored numerous publications in top academic journals such as the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Banking and Finance, and Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. Prominent works encompass the book Credit Risk Management In and Out of the Financial Crisis: New Approaches to Counterparty, Portfolio, and Systemic Risk (2010, co-authored with Anthony Saunders), Do FinTech Mortgage Lenders Fill the Credit Gap? Evidence from Natural Disasters (Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2022, with Yao Shen), What's Your Bank's FinTech Score? Technology Integrating Banking Intermediation (2025, with Alev Yildirim), and Measuring systematic risk from managerial organization capital (Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, 2021, with Alev Yildirim). She also contributed to Capital Markets and Institutions: A Global View.

Professor Allen serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Credit Risk and has been an associate editor for the Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Services Research, and other journals. As founding director of the Zicklin Financial Innovation Lab, she advances research in financial technologies. Her endowed chair position highlights her enduring impact on the academic field of financial economics.