Innovations of Digital Finance, Green Finance, Climate Finance and Financial Risk in the AI Era

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Dear Colleagues,

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into finance represents a paradigm shift, leveraging advanced algorithms, machine learning, and big data analytics to fundamentally transform financial decision-making, product design, and risk management. AI is catalyzing innovations across the financial spectrum, from automating processes and enhancing predictive accuracy to enabling entirely new business models and governance frameworks. Its applications span research, regulatory technology (RegTech), sustainable investing, and systemic risk assessment, profoundly impacting markets and institutions.

In this Topic, we focus on the synergistic innovations at the intersection of AI and key financial domains: Digital Finance, Green Finance, and Climate Finance, alongside the evolving landscape of Financial Risk. Historically, AI has been instrumental in algorithmic trading, credit scoring, and fraud detection. Today, its transformative potential is being harnessed to tackle more complex challenges. In Digital Finance, AI powers decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, personalized financial services, and smart regulatory compliance. For Green and Climate Finance, AI drives the assessment of environmental risks, the monitoring of sustainability metrics, the optimization of green asset portfolios, and the modeling of climate-related financial impacts. Concurrently, the AI era introduces novel financial risks—such as model opacity, algorithmic bias, data vulnerability, and interconnected systemic fragilities—demanding innovative identification, measurement, and mitigation strategies.

The Topic “Innovations of Digital Finance, Green Finance, Climate Finance and Financial Risk in the AI Era” provides a platform to publish both comprehensive reviews (examining theoretical advancements, ethical considerations, and policy implications) and original research papers (featuring empirical analyses, case studies, and novel methodologies). We welcome diverse perspectives that support, critique, or explore the responsible evolution of this field. Please join us in creating a robust and interdisciplinary collection of articles. We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Qian Li
Prof. Dr. Canzhong Yao
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Participating Journals

Journal Name	Impact Factor	CiteScore	Launched Year	First Decision (median)	APC
FinTech fintech	-	6.2	2022	20.2 Days	CHF 1200	Submit
International Journal of Financial Studies ijfs	2.2	4.6	2013	19.7 Days	CHF 1800	Submit
Journal of Risk and Financial Management jrfm	-	5.0	2008	18.8 Days	CHF 1600	Submit
Platforms platforms	-	-	2023	15.0 days *	CHF 1000	Submit
Risks risks	1.5	5.0	2013	20 Days	CHF 1800	Submit
Sustainability sustainability	3.3	7.7	2009	17.9 Days	CHF 2400	Submit

* Median value for all MDPI journals in the second half of 2025.

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Digital Reputation Risk Disclosure and Firm Value: Novel Evidence Using Textual Analysis of Saudi Non-Financial Listed Companies

by Khaled Muhammad Hosni Sobehy, Lassaad Ben Mahjoub and Ahmed Gomaa Ahmed Radwan

Int. J. Financial Stud. 2026, 14(4), 88; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijfs14040088 - 2 Apr 2026

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Current accounting standards do not allow recognition of intangible assets for indigenously created properties, resulting in a discrepancy between the book value and market value of firms operating within digital economies, where investments like cybersecurity and data governance are grossed up immediately on [...] Read more.

Current accounting standards do not allow recognition of intangible assets for indigenously created properties, resulting in a discrepancy between the book value and market value of firms operating within digital economies, where investments like cybersecurity and data governance are grossed up immediately on the statement of financial position as they are considered to be expensed under IFRS. This paper investigates whether voluntary Digital Reputation Risk Disclosure (DRRD) rectifies this valuation gap for the non-financial firms listed on the Saudi Exchange. Based on an automated bilingual dictionary-based textual analysis of 891 corporate documents and a two-step System GMM estimator run on an unbalanced panel of 619 firm-year observations from a sample of 132 firms for the period 2020–2024, we show that DRRD is statistically significantly negatively related to firm value at conventional levels, implying that investors perceive such disclosures as indications of higher risk exposure rather than stronger governance capabilities. While statistically insignificant, the moderating effect of firm size shows that negative valuation effects are concentrated on large firms according to sub-sample analysis. These findings are confirmed across several alternative specifications in the robustness checks. The findings demonstrate that voluntary digital risk disclosure, in the absence of standards-based frameworks, is not effective at bridging this valuation gap, and may instead activate functional fixation among investors. These findings highlight the importance of IASB’s standardization agenda regarding intangible assets and present relevant empirical data for developing capital markets. Full article

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