FinanceCom 2022

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FinanceCom 2022

Enterprise Applications, Markets and Services in the Finance Industry

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FinanceCom 2022

International Workshop, August 23 - 24, 2022
University of Twente, the Netherlands

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Conference Objectives

Advancements in Information and Communication Technologies have paved the way to new business models, markets, networks, services and players in the financial services industry. FinanceCom 2022 invites papers that help to understand, drive and exploit the associated systems, technologies and opportunities in the financial services industry.

After very successful FinanceCom workshops in Helsinki (virtually), Manchester, Sydney (twice), Regensburg, Montreal, Paris, Frankfurt (twice) and Barcelona, FinanceCom 2022 will be organised in the Netherlands for the first time. The workshop spans multiple disciplines, including analytical, technical, service, economic, sociological and behavioral sciences. We welcome research from any of these disciplines, as well as cross-disciplinary work. We are open to various levels of analysis and methodology.

Topics

Networks and business models
  • Technology-Driven Transformation of the Financial Industry – towards Banking Value Networks
  • Business process outsourcing/offshoring and Information Systems
  • New e-Finance business models enabled by IT
  • New Bank Business Models & Challenges in a Post-Financial Crisis
  • Approaches for evaluating operational and credit risks as well as banking and market performance
Financial Markets
  • Electronic Markets Design and Engineering
  • Algorithmic and High Frequency Trading / Post Trading Systems and Infrastructures
  • Analysis of Intraday Market Data and News
  • Regulation of Electronic Financial Markets (e.g. MiFiD II / MiFIR, EMIR or Dodd-Frank)
  • Private Equity and Venture Capital Investments
  • Non-Fungible Token (NTFs)
  • Emerging Digital and Virtual Financial Markets
    IT and implementations
    • Role of new technologies (e.g. Web Services, Cloud, Big Data, and Grid Computing)
    • Implementation experiences and case studies
    • Enabling decision support systems in banking and financial markets
    • Enterprise communication in Banking & Financial Services
    • Interoperability of heterogeneous financial systems and evolving international standard

     “New” Emerging Digital and Virtual Financial Markets

    • Virtual Currencies (Bitcoin, Amazon, …)
    • Alternative Banking, Loan, and Financial Market Models
    • New Customer Contact Trends
    • Crowdfunding, Crowdsourcing, and B2B/B2C Social Media
    • Loyalty Card and Smart Card Markets
    • New Banking and Payment Trends
    • Banking, payments, and currencies in emerging countries

    Analytics Revolution in Finance
    • Algorithms for automated trading, high-frequency trading
    • Novel analytics approaches to risk modeling, e.g. Bayesian learning
    • Utilizing Big Data for applications in finance
    • Machine learning to support decision making in financial markets
    • New methodological approaches to derive empirical results in finance research
    • Utilizing natural language processing and alternative data (e.g., satellite images, energy consumption data, …) for empirical financial research

    Conference Location

    The conference will take place at the campus hotel UPark. You can book your accomodation directly with the hotel or via one of the booking sites. Alternative hotels closeby include De Broeierd , InterCity Hotel, and VanDerValk Enschede. Participants interested in attending EFA 2022 afterwards (2022 European Finance Association Annual Meeting (efa-meetings.org)) will find easy connections to Barcelona. Twente (Hengelo station) has a direct train connection to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport (see www.ns.nl).

    Conference Co-Chairs

    • Jos van Hillegersberg, University of Twente and JADS.nl, the Netherlands
    • Fethi Rabhi, University of New South Wales, Australia

    Conference Organizing Chair

    • Joerg Osterrieder, University of Twente, the Netherlands

    Local Organizing Committee

    • Xiaohong Huang, University of Twente, the Netherlands
    • Vijaya Marisetty, University of Twente, the Netherlands
    • Abhishta Abhishta, University of Twente, the Netherlands

    Program Committee

    • Peter Gomber, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
    • Branka Hadji Misheva, ZHAW, Switzerland
    • Jonas Hedman, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
    • Ali Hirsa, Columbia University, US
    • Ronald Hochreiter, Vienna University of Economics, Austria
    • Ana Ivanisevic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
    • Audrius Kabasinkas, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
    • Ronald Kleverlaan, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
    • Petre Lameski, University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius, North Macedonia
    • Bernhard Lutz, Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Germany
    • Nikolay Mehandjiev, University of Manchester, UK
    • Dolores Romero Morales, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
    • Daniel Tran Pele, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania
    • Fethi Rabhi, University of New South Wales, Australia
    • Brahim Saadouni, University of Manchester, UK
    • Michael Siering, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
    • Nika Šimurina, University of Zagreb, Croatia
    • Laura Spierdijk, University of Twente, the Netherlands
    • Vasile Strat, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania
    • Kristina Sutienne, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
    • Ekaterina Svetlova, University of Twente, the Netherlands
    • Claudia Tarantola, University of Pavia, Italy
    • Ania Zalewska, University of Bath, UK
    • Sonia Garg, L.M. Thapar School of Management, India
    • Pradeep Kumar Gupta, L.M. Thapar School of Management, India 

    Contact

    Please send any queries and comments to the local organizing committee. e-mail: finance-com-2022@utwente.nl