Digital Finance - Call for Papers: Women in Fintech
Overview
Gender equity is more than a basic human right. It is also a keystone of a prosperous, modern economy that generates inclusive, long-term growth. As the market is growing digitized, the lack of women in technology is becoming more important to address. Many of the leading positions in business will be digital in the future. At the same time, front-line positions commonly occupied by women are likely to be endangered as a result of automation. The gender gap in digital economy will grow, if we do not recruit, educate, and reskill women accordingly. Increased presence of women in the technology sector will benefit the economy and society.
Internet, digital platforms, and digital financial services provide equal opportunities to all. We must take advantage of this ability to promote greater gender equality in the workplace, increase economic prosperity, and create a more inclusive digital world. Today's digital revolution opens up new opportunities for the economic empowerment of women and may help to achieve greater gender equality.
This special issue follows up on the “Women in Fintech” conference, which will be virtually held on 22-23 September 2021. Submissions are invited where at least one author is a woman. The conference is the part of the diversity efforts of Fintech and AI COST Action CA19130.
The contributions for this call for papers aim to bridge the gap between academia, industry, the public and governmental organizations, and propose reflections on how to support the established financial industry in the delivery of financial services.
This special issue aims at selecting high-quality papers containing original, relevant research with potentially high-impact in the fields of AI, Fintech and statistical modelling.
We welcome topics aligned with the FinTech and AI COST Action, including, but not limited to:
- Transparency in Fintech
- Credit risk modelling
- Asset pricing (Time-series & Cross-sectional Predictability)
- Market risk analysis
- Risk management
- Portfolio choice/construction and performance evaluation
- Sentiment/Textual analysis
- Business process modelling
- Technological developments that shape Fintech
- Fintech regulatory frameworks and digital innovation in the interest of consumers and market efficiency
- Fostering innovation and inventiveness in Fintech
- Transparent versus Black Box Decision-Support Models in the Financial Industry
- Transparency into Investment Product Performance for Clients
Editors of the Special Issue:
Dr. Galena Pisoni, Université Côte d'Azur
Dr. Alessia Paccagnini, University College Dublin
Dr. Claudia Tarantola, University of Pavia
Dr. Alessandra Tanda, University of Pavia
Dr. Albulena Shala, University of Pristina, Faculty of Economics
Kherbouche Meriem, PhD Can., Eötvös Loránd University
Instructions for Submission
For submission, authors are requested to access the Editorial Manager at the following URL: https://www.editorialmanager.com/dfin/default.aspx (this opens in a new tab). Please answer ``YES'' when asked if your manuscript belongs to a special issue and select the special issue in the list that will pop up.
Potential authors are reminded that all papers that are finally accepted for this special issue will be subject to format restrictions complying with the publisher's standards. To speed up publication, and to ensure a unified layout throughout the special issue, authors are likely advised to use a LaTex. Springer's LaTex package (Download zip, 188 kB) (this opens in a new tab) can be used to prepare source files (please choose the formatting option "smallextended'"). The authors are highly recommended not to modify the class file by introducing personal settings and/or definitions. Word files are also accepted.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript.
Keywords: fintech, bigtech, digitalization, transparency, black box, decision-support models, investment product, asset pricing, risk management, sentiment analysis, business process modelling
Important Dates
Deadline for paper submission: 30 November 2021
About Digital Finance
The journal is a top tier peer-reviewed academic and practitioner journal that publishes high-quality articles with a focus on digital finance and innovation as well as on the analysis of digital and internet innovations on financial services and the economy. The journal publishes theoretical or empirical, qualitative or quantitative papers of interest to academics, practitioners, and regulators with the emphasis on empirical, financial market, and investment innovation, financial policy research and recommendations related to improving the welfare in the digital economy. Further details on this journal are available on the Springer website (this opens in a new tab)