The 1st International Online Conference on Risk and Financial Management
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The 1st International Online Conference on Risk and Financial Management
Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning in Finance
Event's Timezone: Central European Summer Time
17th March 2025
17th April 2025
13th June 2025
Risk Management, Financial Management, Predictive Modeling, Financial Technology, Quantitative Risk Analysis, Algorithmic Trading, Financial Forecasting, Economic Modeling, Big Data Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Welcome from the Chair
I want to offer a warm welcome to all conference participants of the 1st International Online Conference on Risk and Financial Management—Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning in Finance (IOCRF2025), which will take place virtually over two days from 17 to 18 June 2025. The conference is sponsored by MDPI and the scientific journal JRFM (Journal of Risk and Financial Management), a peer-reviewed, open access journal that focuses on risk management and all areas of empirical finance, management and applied financial economics.
This conference will feature sessions on the following topics:
· Machine learning in economics and finance;
· AI in economics and finance;
· AI in financial reporting and auditing;
· Financial innovations and technology;
· Future of money: central bank digital currencies, cryptocurrencies and stablecoins.
This event will be held entirely online, allowing participants from all over the world to participate without concerns regarding travel and related expenditures. This conference format is particularly appropriate and useful because research concerned with AI and big data applications in empirical finance is progressing rapidly. An electronic conference provides a platform for rapid and direct exchanges about the latest research findings and novel ideas.
Participation, as well as attendance of this online conference, is free. Participants will have the opportunity to examine, explore and critically engage with issues and advances in these areas. We hope to facilitate discussions and exchange within the community.
Outstanding contributions from each session will be eligible for conference awards. Moreover, instead of limiting presentations to a live poster session, all IOCRF2025 participants have the opportunity to upload and display their research in the form of a poster at the poster gallery on the conference website. Therefore, all participants with poster submissions for the poster gallery are now eligible for awards! Please click HERE for more instructions on poster and oral submissions.
Lastly, we would like to express our sincere gratitude for your unwavering support and participation, and to wish this conference every success.
Kind Regards,
Prof. Dr. Thanasis Stengos
University of Guelph, Canada
Chair of the 1st International Electronic Conference on Risk and Financial Management—Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning in Finance
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Event Chairs
Thanasis Stengos joined the Department of Economics at the University of Guelph in 1984, where he held a University Research Chair from 2004 to 2019. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics and Ph.D. from Queen's University. He currently serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Econometrics and Empirical Economics and he is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Risk and Financial Management and co-editor of the Review of Economic Analysis. His research has been published in many journals including the Review of Economic Studies, European Economic Review, International Economic Review, The Economic Journal, The Econometrics Journal, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Econometrics, Econometric Theory, The Review of Economic and Statistics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics and Journal of Economic Growth.
Session Chairs
Prof. Dr. Thanasis Stengos
Department of Economics and Finance, University of Guelph, Canada
nonparametric econometrics; applied time series models; empirical finance; empirical growth
Prof. Dr. Svetlozar (Zari) Rachev
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA
mathematical and empirical finance; probability metrics; mass transportation problems
Dr. Mahmoud Elmarzouky
St Andrews Business School, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK
corporate narrative disclosure; content analysis; textual analysis; sustainable development goals (SDGs); climate change; carbon emission; financial reporting standards; corporate governance
Prof. Dr. Xianrong (Shawn) Zheng
Information Technology & Decision Sciences Department, Old Dominion University, USA
AI; cloud computing; FinTech
Prof. Dr. Ramona Rupeika-Apoga
Faculty of Business, Management and Economics, University of Latvia, Latvia
FinTech; alternative financing; international finance; banking
Event Committee
Department of Finance, Control and Law, Montpellier Business School, Montpellier, France
cryptocurrencies/bitcoins; big data analytics; corporate finance; energy finance; green supply chain/circular economy
Department of Economics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
econometric theory; applied econometrics; financial econometrics
Faculty of Finance, Cass Business School, City, University of London, London, UK
commodity markets; financial forecasting; asset pricing; financial crises; credit risk
Laboratoire d'Économie Dionysien (LED), University Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France
empirical finance; computational econometrics; commodities
Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University, New York, USA
finance; monetary economics; econometrics; international economics
Department of Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness, Louisiana State University-LSU AgCenter, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
econometrics; financial econometrics; risk management; financial analysis; international trade & development; agricultural marketing; prices
Health Economics; insurance economics; regulation; innovation in insurance; the production of health
Graduate School of Business and Law (GSBL), RMIT University Australia, Melbourne, Australia
quantitative finance; corporate finance; asset pricing; applied mathematics
Finance and Sustainable Development, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France
emerging markets; asset pricing; portfolio management; behavioral finance; interaction between commodities, asset prices and macroeconomic variables; corporate social responsibility (CSR)
Department of Finance, Faculty of Finance and Banking, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania
corporate finance; corporate governance; quantitative finance; sustainable development
Department of Finance and Real Estate, Kogod School of Business, American University, Washington, D.C., USA
Behavioral finance corporate finance; dividend policy, survey research methodology
Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Pardubice, Pardubice, Czech Republic
fuzzy systems, neuro-fuzzy systems and evolutionary fuzzy systems; financial risk prediction using computational intelligence methods; deep learning neural networks for spam prediction; decision support systems under uncertainty
market microstructure; banking and insurance; financial architecture; competing market (systems)
Faculty of Economics and Business, Business Administration Department, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
corporate investment; mutual funds; IPOs; CSR; sustainable finance
empirical finance; forecasting
economics; international economics; international monetary economics; international trade theory and policy
Discipline–Accounting & Finance, Economics and Law, Federation University, Berwick, Australia
green infrastructure; finance
Director of Global Business Program, Faculty of International Liberal Arts, Akita International University, Akita, Japan
empirical finance; financial markets; macroeconomics; applied econometrics and investment
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, USA
CFD; reactive flows; combustion; chemical looping; carbon capture and sequestration
financial economic; macroeconomic; international finance and financial markets; behavioral finance and financial markets; ethical finance and sustainability; forecasting; advanced time series; high frequency data; advanced econometrics
1. Risk Methodology, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France,
2. Department of Computer Science, University College London, Bloomsbury, London, UK
Swarm Intelligence; AI and Ethics; Financial Risk Modelling; Deep Reinforcment Learning applied to Finance; Applied Quantum Mechanics; Aversarial Machine Learning
Department of Finance, Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA
risk management; operational risk; default risk; value-at-risk; corporate finance; applications of probability and statistics in finance; stochastic processes
School of Finance, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanchang, China
blockchain; cryptocurrencies; FinTech; banking; financial markets
Department of Banking, School of Banking and Insurance, Ankara Haci Bayram Veli University, Besevler, Ankara, Turkey
banking and finance; risk management and analysis; applied economics and finance
finance; Islamic finance; investment; tourism; environmental issues; corporate governance; financial performance; capital structure; SDGS; merges and acqusistions
corporate finance; corporate governance; executive compensation; mergers and acquisitions; banking
macroeconomics; energy economics; economic policy uncertainty; foreign exchange markets; corporate finance; asset pricing; applied econometrics
Marriott School of Business, Brigham Young University, Provo, USA
asset-pricing theory; empirical tests of asset-pricing models; econometrics
game theory in accounting and finance; accounting manipulations; entrepreneurial finance; entrepreneurship; crowdfunding; sports analytics; machine learning and big data
Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada
capital market implication of earnings quality; corporate governance and audit quality; accounting education
corporate finance; behavioural finance; sustainable finance; dividend policy; climate change anking; public finance; fintech
Department of Mathematical Sciences, School of Sciences, Tezpur University, Assam, India
functional analysis; fixed point theory and fractional calculus; fuzzy mathematics; Geographic Information System; mathematical statistics
1. Italian National Research Council (CNR), Rome, Italy,
2. Institute for Studies on the Mediterranean (ISMed), Napoli, Italy
economic history; credit and banking history; insurance history
1. Faculty of Economics, Management and Accountancy, Insurance and Risk Management Department, University of Malta, Msida, Malta,
2. Faculty of Business, Management and Economics, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
financial technologies; financial management and asset management; risk management; compliance and regulations; corporate finance; corporate governance; audit management; financial services; behavioral economics
empirical asset pricing; stock market liquidity; behavioural finance; investments
Department of Economics, Management and Business Law, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy
interbank markets; behavioural finance; systemic risk; agent-based models; network
corporate finance; financial intermediation; financial regulations
College of Management (AACSB), Yuan Ze University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan
basel accord; credit risk; deposit insurance
Department of Marketing, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
retailing; marketing; retail marketing; international marketing; tourism marketing; consumer research; consumer generations; sustainable retailing; sustainable marketing; sustainable tourism
Institute of Economic Sciences, Hungarian University of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
microeconomics; sustainable management
Faculty of Economics and Informatics and the Faculty of Business and Management Sciences, University of Novo Mesto, Novo Mesto, Slovenia
Tourism; econometrics; demand; hospitality industry; Time series
Accounting & Finance, Faculty of Arts and Society, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia
emerging markets; portfolio construction; asset allocation; market integration; volatility transmission
Department of Decision Sciences and Economics, College of Business, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
technology adoption; e-Commerce; mobile banking and payment; decision support systems; distance education; accounting information system
digital economy; higher education; sustainability; international business
Department of Economics, Faculty of Social, Political and Economics Sciences, Democritus University of Thrace, Komotini, Greece
finance; investments; insurance; pensions; portfolio management; applications
1. Department of International Business and Economics, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania,
2. Institute for Economic Forecasting, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
asset bubbles; financial markets; asset pricing; monetary policy; credit risk; volatility modeling; financial econometrics; economic forecasting; risk management
accounting information systems; electronic financial reporting; foresnic accounting; accounting education; financial inclusion; non-financial reporting
Department of Financial and Business Systems, Lincoln University, 21 Ellesmere Junction Road, Lincoln, Christchurch, New Zealand
financial econometrics; financial markets; financial technologies; sustainability
Digital Finance Unit, Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
payment systems; digital finance; two-sided markets; network and monetary economics
Foundations of Economic Analysis, Department of Economy, Universitat Jaume I, Castelló, Spain
behavioral economics and finance; computational economics; agent-based approches to economics; distributional methods in economics; financial econometrics
1. Institute of Data Science and Behavior Science, Civil Aviation Flight University of China, Guanghan, China,
2. Department of Finance, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA
dynamic asset pricing; fixed income and its derivatives; corporate finance; credit risk and risk management
international trade; investment; growth and development; applied theory; technology and innovation; human capital
Engineering and Management Department, Faculty of Design Industrial and Business Management, Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi, Iasi, Romania
public and private finance; financial management; performance management; micro and macroeconomics; entrepreneurship
Scholarship of Accounting Education; Corporate Social Reporting, Interdisciplinary Accounting Research, Accounting History, and Accounting for Sport
Corporate disclosure; gender and equality, consumer behaviour; marketing; sustainable development goals (SDGs); corporate governance.
CiTUR—Centre for Tourism Research, Development and Innovation, Polytechnic University of Leiria, Leiria, Portugal
financial accounting; hospitality management accounting; financial sustainability; revenue management
Department of Finance, Mays Business School, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
asset pricing; banking; event study methods, interest rates, inflation rates, exchange rates
Keynote Speakers
Speech Title: Risk-Neutral Pricing of Quanto Options with Generative Machine Learning Techniques
Financial Risk Management, Derivative pricing and hedging, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence, Mathematical and statistical modeling with Levy Process, time varying volatility, asymmetric dependence, fattails and long range dependence.
Financial econometrics; statistical learning for big data; copula-based modeling; functional data
financial reporting; financial market; cryptocurrency
Department of Finance and Economics, Woodbury School of Business, Utah Valley University, Orem, USA
investments; financial markets and institutions; options and futures; machine learning; artificial intelligence
Faculty of Business, Management and Economics, University of Latvia, Latvia
Speech Title: Bitcoin's Monetary Metamorphosis: From Concept to Currency? Abstract: The critical examination of Bitcoin's status as money and its effectiveness in performing traditional monetary functions is essential. We will explore the psychological foundations of value, examining how collective belief and acceptance confer value to Bitcoin. The discussion will address Bitcoin's roles as a medium of exchange, store of value, and unit of account, and critically assess its effectiveness in these roles compared to traditional currencies. Additionally, we will consider the regulatory landscape, market dynamics, and challenges such as volatility and environmental impact. This analysis aims to provide a nuanced understanding of Bitcoin's potential and limitations in redefining the concept of money in the digital age.
FinTech; alternative financing; international finance; banking
Finance and Accounting,Department of Public Administration,Panteion University , Athens, Greece
financial innovation - crowdfunding and blockchain applications in finance; SMEs access to finance; behavioural finance; capital structure
Invited Speakers
Azman Hashim International Business School, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
corporate governance, audit quality, earnings management and shariah governance
Faculty of Accountancy, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia
Auditing; Corporate governance; Financial Accounting
Department of Accounting, Finance, and Economics, Middlesex University Business School, Middlesex University, London, UK
corporate finance; financial market microstructures; market-based accounting research; economics
Accounting regulation; Islamic finance; Fintech
Department of Accounting, Finance, and Business Law, College of Business, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi; Finance Area, Academic Alliance, Texas A&M University System, RELLIS Technology and Innovation Center, USA
Speech Title: Cryptocurrencies & Blockchain Research: Past, Present, Future
asset pricing; banking; blockchain; computational finance; data analytics; fintech
international macro/finance; asset pricing; cryptocurrencies; fixed income
Registration
The registration for IOCRF 2025 will be free of charge! The registration includes attendance to all conference sessions.
If you are registering several people under the same registration, please do not use the same email address for each person, but their individual university email addresses. Thank you for your understanding.
Please note that the submission and registration are two separate parts. Only scholars who registered can receive a link to access the conference live streaming. The deadline for registration is 13th June 2025.
Instructions for Authors
The 1st International Online Conference on Risk and Financial Management: Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning in Finance will accept abstracts only. The accepted abstracts will be available online on Sciforum.net during and after the conference.
1. Deadline for abstract submission: 17 March 2025.
2. Deadline for abstract acceptance notification: 17 April 2025.
You will be notified of the acceptance of an oral presentation in a separate email.
Abstract submissions should be completed online by registering with www.sciforum.net and using the "New Submission" function once logged into the system. No physical template is necessary.
1. The structure abstract should include the introduction, methods, results, and conclusions sections of about 200–300 words in length.
2. All abstracts should be submitted and presented in clear, publication-ready English with accurate grammar and spelling.
3. You may submit multiple abstracts. However, only one abstract will be selected for oral presentation.
Detailed Requirements:
1. The submitting author must ensure that all co-authors are aware of the contents of the abstract.
2. Please select only one presenter for each submission. If you would like to change the presenter after submission, please email us accordingly.
Note: We only accept live presentations.
b. File format: PDF (.pdf).
c. Size in cm: 60 width x 80 height–portrait orientation.
d. Font size: ≥20.
e. Maximum size: 250 M
All accepted submissions will be permanently displayed online in the Poster Gallery. Once your submission is accepted, you can upload your poster in the "My submission" section. Simply select the correct conference and submission, then click the upload button.
It is the authors' responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there is no conflict, please state "The authors declare no conflicts of interest." This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. Any financial support for the study must be fully disclosed in the "Acknowledgments" section.
MDPI, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting an abstract to this conference, you retain the copyright to the work, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this abstract online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your full paper (with the abstract) to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher if required.
Publication Opportunity
1. Journal of Risk and Financial Management Publication
Participants in this conference are cordially invited to contribute a full manuscript to a Special Issue published in Journal of Risk and Financial Management (ISSN: 1911-8074), with a 20% discount on the publication fee. All submitted papers will undergo MDPI’s standard peer-review procedure. The abstracts should be cited and noted on the first page of the paper.
Please note if you have IOAP/association discounts, conference discounts will be combined with IOAP/association discounts. Conference discounts cannot be combined with reviewer vouchers.
2. Proceeding Paper Publication
All accepted abstracts will be published in the conference report of IOCRF 2025 in Proceedings (ISSN: 2504-3900); if you wish to publish an extended proceeding paper (4-8 pages), please submit it to the same journal after the conference.
Authors are asked to disclose that it is a proceeding paper of the IOCRF 2025 conference paper in their cover letter.
Proceedings submission deadline: 31 July 2025
Carefully read the rules outlined in the 'Instructions for Authors' on the journal’s website and ensure that your submission adheres to these guidelines.
Authors are encouraged to use the Microsoft Word template or LaTeX template to prepare their manuscript.
Event Awards
To acknowledge the support of the conference's esteemed authors and recognize their outstanding scientific accomplishments, we are pleased to announce that the conference will provide six awards including Best Oral Presentation Awards and Best Poster Awards.
The Awards
Number of Awards Available: 6
The Best Oral Presentation Awards are given to the submission judged to make the most significant oral contribution to the conference.
The Best Poster Awards are given to the submission judged to make the most significant and interesting poster for the conference.
There will be six winners selected for these awards. The winner will receive a certificate and 200 CHF each.
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