Stacking Ensemble Models for Predicting Digital Payment Adoption: A Comprehensive Machine Learning Analysis of Global Findex 2025 Data
This study leverages a stacking ensemble of LightGBM and XGBoost models with an ExtraTrees meta-learner on the 2025 Global Findex dataset to predict digital payment adoption with 93.04% accuracy, revealing that education, internet access, and income are the most critical drivers of financial inclusion.