[AISWorld] Final Call for Papers: Track Blockchain and FinTech: The development, application and implication of blockchain @ ECIS'2023

[Rossi Matti]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Track “Blockchain and FinTech: The development, application and implication of blockchain track”

https://ecis2023.no/submissions/track-descriptions/?track=bcfin



31st European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2023)
Conference theme: Co-Creating Sustainable Digital Futures
June 11-16, 2023, Kristiansand, Norway

https://ecis2023.no/submissions/call-for-papers/





Call for Contributions



Blockchain/DLT technologies challenge prevailing myths concerning supremacy of centralised computing architectures and offer new opportunities to develop radically new digital financial services. At the same time, the new technology architecture has been criticised as being ‘unnecessary’ or ‘unfit’ to deal with real issues in finance and beyond. FinTech, which refers to the use of novel technologies such as blockchain to design, deliver and optimise financial services, describes a broad variety of technological interventions within digital finance. In particular, 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, WealthTech, 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 that relates to both the design and use of blockchain-based innovations in FinTech.



Topics for this track include but are not limited to the following:

·       Novel approaches to development of blockchain

·       Decentralised identity and wallet solutions

·       Blockchain platform governance and standards

·       Cryptocurrencies and NFTs

·       Stable coins and CBDCs

·       Emergent payment platforms (e.g., B2B, cross-border) based on blockchain

·       Entry of new actors in the FinTech ecosystem (e.g., Apple Pay, Amazon Pay, WeChat Pay, etc.)

·       Innovation in capital markets (trading, crowdfunding, peer-to-peer lending)

·       Use of AI and blockchain in WealthTech, InsurTech and PropTech

·       Blockchain for financial inclusion and open banking

·       Regulatory approaches of innovative financial services and RegTech (AML, security issues )

·       Security of blockchain-based platforms



TRACK CHAIRS



Juho Lindman, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Kalina Staykova, Warwick Business School, UK

Matti Rossi, Aalto University, Finland



IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: November 17, 2022, 23:59 CET (Central European Time)
Notification of (conditional) acceptance: February 28, 2023


Matti Rossi
Past President
Association for Information Systems
Professor of Information Systems Science
Aalto University School of Business, Finland
Mobile: +358 50. 3835503, Skype: motrossi