“…Recently PLS-SEM has flourished among social scientists (Hair et al, 2019b), and many scholars have used it in multidiscipline, e.g., hospitality and tourism (Flavi an et al, 2019), educational studies (Esawe et al, 2022). Moreover, it is now being used for quantitative study in Fintech (Abbasi et al, 2022;Esawe, 2022a) due to its ability to test complex models and reflective measurement (Henseler, 2018) and neither normally distributional assumptions nor requires large samples, as PLS-SEM incorporates both explanation and prediction (Hair et al, 2017). PLS-SEM is a two-stage approach: in the first stage, the outer model (measurement model) measures the reliability and validity, whereas, in the second stage, the inner model (structural model) tests the strength of the relationship between the constructs (Hair et al, 2019b(Hair et al, , 2019a.…”