Complex Financial Systems: Dynamics, Risk, and Resilience
A special issue of Systems (ISSN 2079-8954). This special issue belongs to the section "Systems Practice in Social Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026 | Viewed by 25
Special Issue Editors
Interests: digital ecosystems; AI/ML in finance; socio-technical systems; behavioural and sentiment-driven markets; sustainability transitions; system dynamics; risk architectures
Interests: multi-criteria decision-making; system-level optimisation; surrogate modelling; AI-enabled analytics; ESG-XAI; modelling of system trade-offs
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Financial markets and institutions are becoming increasingly interconnected, digitalised, and shaped by rapidly evolving technologies and behavioural forces. Developments in algorithmic trading, decentralised finance, digital assets, ESG-driven capital flows, and AI-enabled decision systems mean that finance must be understood as a complex, adaptive, and socio-technical system—one influenced by the interactions among people, technologies, regulations, data flows, and global events.
This Special Issue, “Complex Financial Systems: Dynamics, Risk, and Resilience”, invites scholarly contributions that examine financial phenomena through the lens of systems science and systems engineering. We welcome submissions from finance, economics, information systems, management, data science, engineering, sustainability studies, and related fields. Empirical, theoretical, conceptual, and methodological papers are all suitable, provided they adopt a systems-oriented perspective aligned with the journal’s aims.
Suggested themes include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Systemic risk propagation, contagion, and stress transmission;
- Networked financial markets, agent-based modelling, and hybrid simulations;
- Behavioural, sentiment-driven, and feedback-loop market dynamics;
- Digital finance ecosystems, platform intermediation, and cyber-physical infrastructures;
- AI-augmented risk management, explainable decision systems, and model governance;
- ESG factors, sustainability transitions, and complex capital-flow reconfigurations;
- Governance, regulation, and policy as system-shaping mechanisms;
- Resilience engineering, scenario modelling, and system design for financial stability.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Tristan Lim
Dr. Zhiyuan Wang
Dr. Chong Guan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- complex financial systems
- systemic risk
- socio-technical finance
- financial networks
- system dynamics
- behavioural market dynamics
- digital and algorithmic finance
- AI/ML decision systems
- sustainability transitions
- complex adaptive systems
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