[Conference] TINFIN – upcoming COST FinAI event (hybrid) in Zagreb, Croatia

International Scientific ConferenceTechnology, Innovation and Stability:New Directions in Finance May 5th – 6th 2022Zagreb, Croatia(hybrid event) CONFERENCE WEBSITE: https://sites.google.com/net.efzg.hr/tinfinconference/homeDIRECT LINK TO REGISTER : https://sites.google.com/net.efzg.hr/tinfinconference/registration/participant-registration TINFIN-upcoming-COST-event.pdf

[Conference] Diversity challenges and opportunities in FinTech

Naples, May 16-17 [Hybrid event] Here the flyer with the main information. On the website further details https://fin-ai.eu/diversity-workshop-naples2022/ Registration form The venues are two different locations of University of Naples Federico II:16 MayDepartment of Political SciencesVia Leopoldo Rodinò, 22, 80133 Napoli, Italy 17 MayAula PessinaCorso Umberto I, 40, 80133 Napoli, Italy

[Conference] ML approaches Finance and Management 

Workshop ML approaches Finance and Management ( Meet-up link ) on March 24-25, 2022. Keynote talks include 1) A penalized two-pass regression to predict stock returns with time-varying risk premia Olivier Scaillet | University of Geneva 2) Is your machine better than you? You may never knowFrancis de Vericourt | ESMT Berlin 3) Asymptotic Properties of Kernel Estimators of Multivariate Diffusion ProcessesDennis Kristensen | University College London 4) Bootstrapping Financial Econometric Models Giuseppe Cavaliere | University of Bologna 5) TBADacheng Xiu |… Read More

[Our Action] COST FinAI Update Grant Period 2

Since we are now fully starting with the second grant period, a few updates on 1) Work and Budget plan (WBP) 2) Activities 3) Proposed new leadership structure. We have 19 Countries represented as hosts and organizers. UK, Switzerland, Turkey, Hong Kong, Austria, Italy, France, Ireland, Romania, Germany, Netherlands, Croatia, Portugal, Finland, North Macedonia, Poland,  Slovakia, Lithuania, New Zealand, Europe (i.e. online). There will be 24 conferences, workshops, seminars, meetings organised by COST FinAI and/ or… Read More

[Conferences] Conferences, workshops, COST FinAI meetings

International Virtual Research Seminars in Finance @ Bath, 22.2.22 Cost Action CA19130 – WG3 Meeting No 14, 25.2.22 COST FinAI Diversity group meeting – n. 14, 25.2.22 ML approaches Finance and Management, 24.3. – 25.3.22 International Conference on Business Excellence, 24.3.22 ENVIRONMENTAL FINANCE FOR THE COMMON GOOD, 31.3.22 TINFIN Conference / COST Session / COST FinAI WG2 meeting, 5.5. – 6.5.22 The 7th International Conference on Digital Economy, 9.5.22 COST FinAI Diversity… Read More

[Our Action] University College Dublin Impact Podcast

Alessia Paccagnini, Scientific Communication Manager of our COST Action, has been interviewed in the UCD Business Impact Podcast. She talked about her research, her role in the COST Action and in particular about the promotion of women in FinTech and STEM. https://www.ucd.ie/quinn/podcast/

[Our Action] New deadlines for STSMs and ITC Conference Grants

 We have 3 calls for application each year, for both STSMs and ITC Conference Grants: 1st deadline April, 1st 2nd deadline May, 1st 3rd   deadline July,  1st   For details please refer to:

[Other] Royalton Partners Relaunches Royalton CRIX Crypto Index

An index designed to capture fast growing asset class of cryptocurrencies Royalton CRIX is calculated by S&P Dow Jones Indices since December 2021, powered by Lukka’s institutional data, and administered by Royalton Partners AG. COST member Wolfgang Karl Härdle, Professor of Statistics at Humboldt University of Berlin, led the research team that developed the index. Royalton CRIX aims to provide a representative market index of investable cryptocurrencies. The minimum index constituent number… Read More

[Article] Data Science for Finance: Best-Suited Methods and Enterprise Architectures

Appl. Syst. Innov. 2021, 4(3), 69; https://doi.org/10.3390/asi4030069 We live in an era of big data. Large volumes of complex and difficult-to-analyze data exist in a variety of industries, including the financial sector. In this paper, we investigate the role of big data in enterprise and technology architectures for financial services. We followed a two-step qualitative process for this. First, using a qualitative literature review and desk research, we analyzed and present the data science… Read More

[Our Action] Core group meeting

On January 19, 2022, we started the COST FinAI year 2022 with our first core group meeting:Presentation and meeting minutes are here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16nQoETCBnWG2FJ8RqADznRoZfkHN21CB As main follow-ups, we have: 1.      The following leadership positions are open, anyone interested, please let Branka, Valerio and/ or myself know:a.      Virtual Grant Manager   b.      Grant Award Coordinator/ Manager2.      Daniele, Ronald, Alessia have been very active preparing a mailing list and… Read More