[Action] STSMs and VMG evaluation criteria

In order for an application to be considered for evaluation it has to: Involve members from at least 5 countries; Treat a deliverable of the Action – the deliverable has to be clearly stated in the application, even if it is a secondary output of the application; The applicant should have already been involved in the Action’s activities; The applicant should already have acknowledged the Action in previous work. This aspect has… Read More

[Conference] Affine 2023 Training School

[Other] Best WI-FI 2023 Young Researcher Paper

Update!!!!! The Best WI-FI 2023 Young Researcher Paper contest is in its closing stages. Here the 5 finalists. On the 2nd of June at 12.15pm CET the presentation of their papers and to conclude the session the award ceremony. The prize includes publication of the paper in Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics. Special Issue on Advanced Statistical Modelling for Fintech, financial inclusion and inequality (Guest Editors Maria Iannario, Branka Hadji Misheva,… Read More

[Other] STSM deadlines

Deadlines for the STSM: 1. 15 May (suggested travel from 1 June onward)2. 30 June (suggested travel from 10 July onward)2. late deadline expected to be confirmed early September

[Other] Special Issue Digital Finance – Fintech – Finance, Technologies, and the Society

https://www.springer.com/journal/42521/updates/23290068 Important Dates: Deadline for paper submission: April 30, 2023 Objective and topics: For this Special Issue, we invite rigorous and timely theoretical, empirical, qualitative, or quantitative research that develops a better understanding of the fintech phenomenon. We support studies that will generate both practical and theoretical implications. To this end, and in line with the aim and scope of the journal, we are interested in high-quality submissions that embrace diverse methodological… Read More

[Women in Fintech Conference] – Portugal, Coimbra, 1-2 June

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONIII Conference – Women in FintechCoimbra, June 1-2, 2023

[Other] 15 minutes for a COST Data Protection Survey

Dear colleagues, we need your help! This survey was already circulated a few times in 2022, so if you’ve already filled it out – thank you! For the rest of you, it only takes 10-15 minutes and I think you will find it interesting. The survey looks to measure the level of informational privacy/data protection knowledge that exists among our COST members.  Thank you in advance for taking the time to help our action . https://easy-feedback.com/AIandDataProtectionSurvey/1541487/RY929bAll answers will be treated as absolutely confidential…. Read More

[Conference] Diversity challenges and Stakeholders’ engagement in Finance and FinAI

During the 1 st  and 2 nd  of February 2023, starting at 9:00 (RO time), The Babeș-BolyaiUniversity, through the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, hosts the”Diversity challenges and Stakeholders’ engagement in Finance and FinAI” conference,organized by the COST Action CA 19130 FinAI – Fintech and Artificial Intelligence appliedin Finance (https://fin-ai.eu/) and FINCRIME (https://fincrime.net/), in partnership with theFaculty of Economics and Business Administration (FEBA), The Romanian FinancialSupervisory Authority (ASF) and the Financial Studies Institute (ISF).  We invite you to… Read More

[Conference] Diversity challenges for a sustainable Fintech

Pavia (Italy), April 13-14 https://efcg2023.sciencesconf.org/ Call for paper open until February, 28

[Article] Counterfactual Analysis in Benchmarking

Peter Bogetoft Jasone Ramirez-Ayerbe Dolores Romero Morales  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366399189_Counterfactual_Analysis_in_Benchmarking Description: Traditional benchmarking based on simple key performance indicators is widely used and easy to understand. Unfortunately, such indicators cannot fully capture the complex relationship between multiple inputs and outputs in most firms. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) offers an attractive alternative. It builds an activity analysis model of best practices considering the multiple inputs used and products and services produced. This allows more substantial… Read More