[AISWorld] Finance Technology, IT Professional, Special Issue, -- CFP, Submissions Due 1 August 2017

[San Murugesan]

CALL FOR PAPERS 


IEEE Computer Society


IT PROFESSIONAL 


http://www.computer.org/itpro


 

Finance Technology

Submission deadline: 1 August 2017

Publication: March/April 2018

 

As outlined in the 2015 World Economic Forum (WEF) report on the future of
financial services, financial technology (FinTech) will have significant
transformative impacts on financial industries such as banking, insurance,
investment management, and securities. FinTech-related IT technologies
include blockchain, advanced encryption, the Internet of Things (IoT), data
analytics, financial software, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity,
surveillance, and counterattacks. Ongoing advances in FinTech and auditing
and governance will drive disruptive innovations in the financial sector,
presenting financial industries with new opportunities as well as threats,
and posing some challenges.

 The WEF report emphasizes six challenges to traditional finance services:
payments, insurance, deposit and lending, capital raising, investment
management, and market provisioning. Blockchain, a key technology leading to
future FinTech market shifts, will become increasingly significant. DARPA
also seeks to develop the "perfect" encryption app, one that will likely
utilize a decentralized blockchain-like backbone, designed to be more
resilient. Such technology could both enhance surveillance and better
counter cyberattacks.

 This special issue of IT Professional aims to present readers with emergent
FinTech trends and potential future developments; critical challenges and
issues; innovative approaches and novel solutions; and new financial
applications. We are soliciting articles from industry, businesses,
academia, and government on a wide variety of FinTech topics, including but
not limited to the following:

o    
Blockchain

o    Payments, including P2P payments and mobile payments/wallets

o    Deposit and lending, including P2P lending, APIs, and risk warnings

o    Investment management, including robot financial management and big
data stock picking

o    International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)

o    the Extensible Business Reporting Language(XBRL)

o    FinTech market provisioning using artificial intelligence, machine
learning, and big-data-related technologies

o    Trends and developments in financial engineering

o    Financial services cybersecurity

o    Insurance for IoT applications, wearables, and shared
services/economies

o    Platform for (social) capital raising

o    Securities and Exchange Commission(SEC) policies and protocols

o    FinTech case studies and perspectives


 


Submissions


Feature articles should be no longer than 4,200 words with no more than 20
references (with tables and figures counting as 300 words). Illustrations
are welcome. For author guidelines, including sample articles, please see
www.computer.org/web/peer-review/magazines.

Submit your article at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/itpro-cs.

Please send an extended abstract of the proposed article outlining major
discussion points and key contributions to it2-2018 at computer.org by 15 June
2017 for initial feedback from the guest editors.


 


Questions?


For more information, please contact the guest editors:

Maria R. Lee, Shih Chien University, Taiwan, maria.lee at g2.usc.edu.tw

o    George Hurlburt, STEMCorp, hurlburt at md.metrocast.net

o    David C. Yen, SUNY at Oneonta, David.Yen at oneonta.edu

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San Murugesan

Editor in Chief, IT Professional

san at computer.org