The Road towards the Future: Fintech, AI, and Cryptocurrencies
A special issue of Journal of Risk and Financial Management (ISSN 1911-8074). This special issue belongs to the section "Financial Technology and Innovation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 October 2025) | Viewed by 479
Special Issue Editors
Interests: climate change; fintech; ESG; derivatives; market & credit risk; risk management; asset allocation; AI in finance and portfolio management; complex networks in finance; NLP in finance; counterparty risk; liquidity risk
Interests: complex networks in economics and finance bibliometric indicators
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Macroeconomic trends, along with social, regulatory, and technological advancements, have led to significant structural shifts in the banking and financial market landscape. The swift progression of technological innovation is creating a novel competitive scenery, altering the limits and core nature of financial services with breakthroughs like artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, bitcoin, and the internet of things.
The potential benefits for all stakeholders involved in the realm of finance are numerous. These include expanding access to credit and financial services, particularly reaching underserved consumers (financial inclusion), accessing a wider range of customer-tailored products, increasing the availability of up-to-date information, reducing transaction costs, and enhancing market transparency and efficiency.
Regulatory authorities globally are strategically positioned to uphold a delicate equilibrium between fostering innovation and enforcing regulation, with the primary goal of optimizing advantages for investors while reducing potential risks.
The call for papers seeks to gather research from various fintech domains (banking, payments, capital markets, asset management, insurance, internet of things) to provide a multidisciplinary contribution to academic research. We welcome submissions covering a wide array of fintech research topics, such as the examination of the fintech environment, applications of machine learning techniques in finance, text analysis, big data analysis, complex network analysis, neural network approaches, behavioural finance, cryptocurrencies, and smart contracts.
Dr. Anna Maria D'Arcangelis
Prof. Dr. Giulia Rotundo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fintech
- AI
- cryptocurrency
- machine learning
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