Navigating contemporary FinTech solutions: revealing potential and challenges
Centre for Research on Economic Relations (CER) and the Economic Research Foundation in Sundsvall, are pleased to invite you to participate at the CER FinTech Symposium which will take place at Mid Sweden University, Sundsvall Campus, Sweden, on 3-4 June 2024.
The symposium will establish an interactive environment in which researchers can have dialogues and discussions on the insights that FinTech advanced solutions can bring to different parties but also to investigate unexpected consequences which might generate from using such solutions.
Submitted papers might be within, but are not limited to, the following areas:
• Exploring the prospect of Central Bank Digital Currencies
• Behavioral aspects of e-banking technology
• The future of digital payment
For more details, check Call for papers
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Arman Eshraghi,Professor of Finance and Investment, Deputy Head of Section for Research, Impact and Innovation, Cardiff Business School, United Kingdom & Co-Editor-in-Chief of International Review of Economics & Finance
Arman Eshraghi holds the Chair of Finance and Investment at Cardiff Business School, UK. His academic research spans finance and accounting with interests including investments, behavioural/corporate finance and financial technology. His work is published in some of the leading journals of the field (such as RFS, RF, JEF, AOS, AAAJ, BJM), and cited in the media including the Financial Times, Washington Post, Harvard Business Review, Forbes and Bloomberg. Professor Eshraghi is Editor-in-Chief of International Review of Economics and Finance, Senior Editor of Finance Research Letters and the Global Finance Journal, and currently co-editing a Special Issue for the European Journal of Finance. In addition, he is a Shimomura Fellow of the Development Bank of Japan, Erskine Fellow of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, visiting fellow at University College London, vice-chair of the British Accounting and Finance Association Professorial Committee, co-director of the Behavioural Finance Working Group and the Cardiff Fintech Research Group, and a former Advisory Panel Member of Fintech Wales.
Sofia Johanis an Associate Professor of Finance at the College of Business, Florida Atlantic University, and a Visiting Professor at InnoLab, University of Vaasa. She is co-editor of Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance and also Associate Editor of the British Journal of Management, International Journal of Finance and Economics, British Accounting Review,and Finance Research Letters.
Sofia has published over 84 articles in leading journals, such as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Journal of International Business Studies, and has been cited over 5,800 times. She also sits on the Editorial Boards of Emerging Markets Review, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Small Business Economics: An Entrepreneurship Journal and Journal of Industrial and Business Economics. Sofia has published 6 academic books, including The Oxford Handbook of Hedge Funds (2021), Crowdfunding: Fundamental Cases, Facts, and Insights (2019), and The Oxford Handbook of IPOs (2018).
MEET THE EDITORS SESSION
We are excited to announce a special Meet-the-Editors session at the Symposium, featuring distinguished speakers and editors. Professors Sabri Boubaker, Arman Eshraghi, and Sofia Johan will be in attendance, participating in insightful discussions related to the journals under their supervision. These journals cover a diverse range of financial subjects.
Special issue (SI) of Financial Services Review (FSR) Navigating contemporary FinTech solutions: revealing potential and challenges, under the Guest-editorship of Professor Peter Öhman, Dr Mustafa Nourallah, and Dr Izidin El Kalak. For more details about the SI Call for papers click HERE.
ASSOCIATED JOURNALS
Selected symposium papers may also be also invited for submission to the following journals: