[IRIS] CFP: ECIS 2024 - Track 16 Blockchain and Fintech

[Juho Lindman]

32nd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2024)
June 13-19, 2024, Paphos, Cyprus (https://ecis2024.eu/)
Deadline for paper submissions: November 17, 2023

Track 16 | Blockchain and Fintech

Dear Colleagues,
We are inviting submissions to the track Blockchain and Fintech track (16) of the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS2024). We look forward to receiving your work and to meeting you in Paphos. Please find more information below.


Best regards,
Juho, Kalina and Matti


Track chairs:
Juho Lindman, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (juho.lindman at ait.gu.se)
Kalina Staykova, Warwick Business School, United Kingdom (kalina.staykova at wbs.ac.uk)
Matti Rossi, Aalto University, Finland (matti.rossi at aalto.fi)

Track Description

Blockchain/DLT technologies challenge prevailing myths concerning the supremacy of centralized computing architectures and offer new opportunities to develop radically new digital financial services. At the same time, the new technology architecture has been criticized as being ‘unnecessary’ or ‘unfit’ to deal with real issues in finance and beyond. FinTech, which refers to using novel technologies such as blockchain to design, deliver, and optimize financial services, describes various technological interventions within digital finance. FinTech includes a variety of innovative services within private finance (e.g., P2P payment platforms, money remittances, saving accounts, P2P lending platforms, and alternative credit scoring) and commercial finance (e.g., crowdfunding and security trading without human intervention), as well as within the operational backbone of traditional financial institutions. Blockchain-based applications in this area include cryptocurrencies, digital cash, underlying blockchain technology architecture (DLT, including Ethereum), smart contracts and automatic execution of contracts, open banking initiatives, InsurTech, RegTech (compliance, AML, and KYC), WealthTech (e.g., automatic investment advice), financial services for underbanked and unbanked people, and cybersecurity approaches and services.
We encourage empirical work in these areas relating to the design and use of blockchain-based innovations in FinTech.
 
Topics of Interest
Topics for this track include but are not limited to the following:
- Novel approaches to development of blockchain (e.g., blockchain interoperability)
- De-Fi Platforms
- Blockchain platform governance and standards (e.g., Decentralized Autonomous Organizations)
- Smart contracts
- Crypto assets (Cryptocurrencies, NFTs, etc.) and tokens
- Stable coins and CBDCs
- Decentralised identity and wallet solutions
- Blockchain failure in the financial industries
- Innovation in capital markets (trading, crowdfunding, peer-to-peer lending)
- Use of AI and blockchain in WealthTech, InsurTech and PropTech
- Use of AI and blockchain in Web3
- Blockchain for financial inclusion
- Regulatory approaches of innovative financial services and RegTech (AML, security issues)
- Security of blockchain-based platforms

Important dates
Submission Deadline: November 17, 2023
Notification to authors: February 28, 2024
ECIS main conference: June 17-19, 2024