3rd Contemporary Issues in Financial Markets and Banking

Welcome to IFMB!

The objective of the conference is to address the emerging gaps within the finance and banking scholarship. As an integral part of the Centre for Finance, Technology and Society in the Nottingham Business School, the annual conference seeks to highlight the latest developments which have the potential to change the finance and banking landscape.

Event details

Conference objectives:

1. To provide a network platform to bring early career researchers together to form links with experienced academics.
2. To establish supportive hubs to allow researchers to discuss important implications arising from external shocks and develop resilient and sustainable sources of financing to confront future economic and financial crises.
3. To create a scholarly network to examine the challenges of dynamic decision making in a business environment fit for the future.
4. To discuss the newer puzzles in finance and banking in a supportive and inclusive environment.

Previous conference keynote speakers included:

• Professor Brian Lucey (Trinity College Dublin, Editor of International Review of Financial Analysis; 2023)
• Professor Dimitri Vayanos (LSE, Past Managing Editor of Review of Economic Studies,2024)
• Professor Cheng-Few Lee (Rutgers University, Editor of Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2024)
• Professor Douglas Cumming (Florida Atlantic University, Past Editor of Journal of Corporate Finance, 2023 and 2024)
• Associate Professor Sofia Johan (Florida Atlantic University, 2023)

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

Keynote speakers to be confirmed at a later date.

Confirmed Meet the Editors Session Facilitators:

Meet the Editors Session Facilitators to be confirmed at a later date.

Journal collaboration: Special Issues/Sections/Collaborations

The Conference Organising Committee will select certain papers presented at the conference for consideration for publication in The Financial Review (FR). These papers will undergo a blind review process. This is a 'no-fault' submission option, meaning if the FR decides to review and then reject the paper, the author(s) may resubmit it through the normal submission process. Please note, submitted papers must not be under review at any other journals. The submission fee is USD 175. Selected papers may receive financial support to cover this fee."

Registrations and paper submissions:

• Interested participants should register for the conference using the following form and then proceed with the process below:
• After registration, you should receive an email providing access to the conference SharePoint site. Once logged in, participants can submit their papers to be reviewed by the scientific committee.
• If the paper is accepted after review, participants will be informed of the outcome via email. The paper will be allocated a presentation slot (via Microsoft Teams) in the relevant session depending on the topic on the day of presentation. More details on the presentation will follow nearer the presentation dates.
• Participants will then proceed to make a payment of £50 for doctoral students or £75 for regular submission before they can attend or present at the conference. This payment will also grant access to all conference materials (e.g., submitted papers and recorded presentations) for one month after the conference.
• The conference is also open to anyone who wishes to access the presentations and papers but does not wish to submit any paper.
• The submission must be a fully developed manuscript. We do not impose any style requirements.
• During the conference proceedings, we will also announce the Best Paper Award.

Important dates:

Deadline for paper submissions: 17 November 2024

Deadline for payment: 09 December 2024

Conference dates: 13 to 14 January 2025

Topics:

The scientific and organizing committee welcome submissions in all areas of banking and finance presentation at the conference. Early submission is highly encouraged, and the decision is made as soon as the review is completed. The main topics of the conference include:

Financial resilience; Green and sustainable finance; Decentralised finance and disruptive financial technologies; Theoretical asset pricing; Empirical asset pricing, liquidity and behavioural economics and finance; Risk management; Financial inclusion; Alternative investments; Crowd-funding; Islamic banking; Banking and financial sector stability and regulation; Financial (dis)integration and Brexit; Artificial intelligence, machine and deep learning applications in finance; Corporate finance and sustainable energy financing; Crisis investment and portfolio management; Corporate governance; International financial management and investment; Market microstructure; Household finance; Real estate and property markets; Metaverse and Blockchain technologies in finance. Intersection between finance and economic theory, especially financial applications of game theory, decision theory, and computational financial economics (including multi-agent models and econophysics); experimental economics with implications for financial theory and practice.

PhD Workshops with Parallel Sessions:

Will run concurrently with the parallel tracks.

For queries, please send an email to ifmb@ntu.ac.uk

FAQs:

Q: Is the conference online or onsite?

A: IFMB2024 is a totally online conference

Q: I am a Ph.D. student. Can I submit my work to the IFMB 2025 conference?

A: We welcome works from researchers, practitioners, academics and Ph.D. candidates

Q: How do I submit and track my paper in SharePoint?

A: There is a section on the home page for you to submit/upload your paper for review. Please start there and follow the on-screen information.

Q: Can I appeal the outcome of my paper review?

A: All decisions from the review process are final.

Q: Can I present more than one paper at the conference?

A: No, you can’t present more than one paper at the conference

Q: What is my Paper ID?

A: There is a section on the SharePoint home page for you to track your submission. After your paper is uploaded, it should appear there with a Paper ID.

Q: Why can’t I access the conference materials?

A: The conference materials include all submitted papers and recorded presentations. Access will be available upon payment of the registration fee.

Q: If there is more than one presenter for the conference, should the other presenters need to pay for the conference fees?

A: Yes, all presenters will need to pay the conference fees. The payment will enable us to add them to our system and give them access to all our conference materials.

Q: Once the discussant has completed their PowerPoint slides, where and how to upload them?

A: Please upload both the presentation slides and discussion slides to our conference SharePoint at your earliest convenience. The link to the SharePoint will be updated and communicated via email by the conference organizing committee in due course.

Programme organisers:

Suliman Alshahmy, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom

Padmi Nagirikandalage, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom

Thong Dao, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom

Thao Nguyen, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom

Jeremy Cheah, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom

Linzhi Tan, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom

Sercan Demiralay, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom

Mehmet Sahiner, University of Dundee, United Kingdom

Florian Biermann, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom

Kenneth Baldwin, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom

Yassine Essanaani, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom

International scientific committee and collaborators:

Prof. Duc Khuong Nguyen, Ipag Business School, France

Prof. Tapas Mishra, University of Southampton, UK

Prof. Van Son Lai, Laval University, Canada

Prof. Paul McGuinness, University of Sheffield, UK

Prof. Osamah AlKhazali, American University of Sharjah, UAE

Prof. Sabri Elkrghli,  Libyan International Medical University, Libya

Prof. Serkan Cicek, Muğla Sitki Kocman University, Turkey

Prof. Jiguang Huang, Anhui University of Finance and Economics, China

Associate Prof. Sofia Johan, Florida Atlantic University, US

Associate Prof. Hung Do, Massey University, New Zealand

Prof. Tam Nguyen, Nottingham Trent University, UK

Associate Prof. Shan Wu, Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University, China

Dr. Mamata Parhi, University or Roehampton, UK

Dr. Toan Huynh, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

Assistant Prof. Destan Kirimhan, American University of Sharjah

Assistant Prof. Maher Khasawneh, Hashemite University, Jordan

Prof. Alper Kara, Brunel University, UK

Prof. Ugur Soytas, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Associate Prof. Samet Gunay, Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest

Dr. Erhan Kilincarslan, University of Huddersfield, UK