Digital Finance and Economic Innovations
A special issue of Journal of Risk and Financial Management (ISSN 1911-8074). This special issue belongs to the section "Business and Entrepreneurship".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026 | Viewed by 25
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Digital Technologies and Design and Analytical Solutions, Technical University "Metinvest Polytechnic", 69008 Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
Interests: business modeling; financial management; econometrics; data science; system dynamics; managerial finance; applied software engineering; financial modeling; machine learning
Interests: mathematical modelling engineering; applied and computational mathematics modeling and simulation research methodology; statistics; applied mathematics; artificial intelligence; linear regression numerica
2. Faculty of Economics and Management, West Ukrainian National University, Lvivska 11, Ternopil, Ukraine
Interests: energy economy; digitalisation of education; public sector economics; socio-economic growth
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The dynamic interplay between disruptive financial technologies and entrepreneurial innovation has never been more critical for the stability and strategic renewal of economic systems. This Special Issue will focus on how digital finance (from algorithmic credit and tokenised assets to AI-powered risk platforms) influences business practices, firm behaviour, and broader economic outcomes. We invite contributions that address the ways in which digital financial instruments and frameworks reshape economic innovation, as well as how entrepreneurial ecosystems, business models, and markets respond to these changes. We welcome rigorous empirical work, modelling and simulation studies, bibliometric analyses, and cross-country and comparative studies that explore the following themes:
- Entrepreneurial finance and SME development via digital platforms, alternative capital-access models, and scientific entrepreneurship initiatives.
- Business model transformation in FinTech and incumbent firms, including competitive dynamics and strategies under financial disruption.
- Technology adoption and diffusion of digital financial services in markets and across borders, especially in emerging economies and underserved contexts.
- Financial inclusion, innovation ecosystems, and the impacts of the economic development of digital finance on start-ups, SMEs, and entrepreneurial ecosystems.
- Applications of machine learning, blockchain technology, simulations, and forecasting in digital finance and innovation contexts.
- Regulatory innovations, governance, taxation, ethics, and emerging risks in the digital finance era.
This Special Issue aims to showcase studies that explore novel means of resilient, growth-focused, and innovation-led economies in the digital age by connecting risk-aware business innovation with digital finance transformation.
Prof. Dr. Dmytro Zherlitsyn
Prof. Dr. Vitalina Babenko
Prof. Dr. Oleksandr Dluhopolskyi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- digital finance
- FinTech
- economic innovation
- entrepreneurial finance
- SME growth
- tokenised assets
- blockchain applications
- AI in finance
- simulation modelling
- economic modelling
- ML in finance
- risk management
- decision-making
- digital transformation
- innovation diffusion
- business strategy
- financial inclusion
- regulatory technology
- cross-border digital finance
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