The 7th International Conference will be hosted by Strathclyde Business School (http://febs2017.eventsadmin.com/) and the Centre for Financial Regulation and Innovation (CFRI), in Glasgow during 1-3 June, 2020. The conference will be under the auspices of the Financial Engineering & Banking Society (http://febsociety.org), a non-profit research society, aiming towards the promotion of decision making approaches in the fields of finance, financial engineering and banking.
Past plenary speakers were: Franklin Allen, Arnoud Boot, Stavros Zenios (Malaga, 2016); Edward Altman, Robert DeYoung (Nantes, 2015); Thorsten Beck, Bruno Biais, Steven Ongena (Guildford, 2014); Darrell Duffie, Ike Mathur (Paris, 2013); Lucio Sarno, Ike Mathur (London, 2012); Iftekhar Hasan (Chania, 2011).
CONFERENCE THEME:
The conference theme is “Financial Markets, Innovation and Regulation” and will cover a wide range of topics related to financial innovation and technology, financial regulation, financial engineering, bank governance, and financial markets, including but not limited to:
Innovation and regulation
The emergence of FinTech
Blockchain clearing
FinTech and financial stability
The principles and quality of accounting standards
Asset pricing and portfolio valuation
Clearing houses, CCP
Capital adequacy and requirements
Risk measures and stress testing: regulations, measurement and test
Credit counterparty risk, CVA
The role of rating agencies
Financial intermediaries and shareholders remuneration
Insurance companies
Systemic risk outlook, methods and data
Macro-economic impact of regulations on growth, sovereign debt, credit markets, etc.
The legal context and "post-market" activities
Financial vulnerability
Corporate Finance
Commodities Markets
Mergers and Acquisitions
GUEST SPEAKERS:
- Jonathan Crook, Professor of Business Economics and Director of Research at the University of Edinburgh Business School; Joint Editor of the Operational Research Society; Fellow of Financial Institutions Center, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; External Research Fellow of the Centre for Finance, Credit and Macroeconomics at the University of Nottingham; and Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
- Raghavendra Rau, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Professor of Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School; past president of the European Finance Association; Head of the School's Finance & Accounting subject group; Director (Research) of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF); and a member of the Cambridge Corporate Governance Network (CCGN).
