Technology advancements are driving the digitalization of financial markets, and large-scale investment in new emerging technologies are fundamentally changing the operating environment as finance is becoming more data driven. While these innovations in artificial intelligence and big data have...

Topic: Banking and financial services This year’s conference devotes specific attention to the international role of the euro. Other sessions will focus on the challenges to EU banking and capital markets in the digital age.

Topics of interest: - Unconventional monetary policies and normalization of the monetary policy and: the pricing of financial assets, the risk taking by banks, the spillover effects to other developed and emerging markets, the financial market liquidity. - Basel III capital and liquidity ratio...

The conference will deal with current topics in the cyber resilience and cyber security in the financial sector and will primarily focus on issues with a systemic perspective in financial market infrastructures. The event will feature a distinguished line-up of speakers from cyber security...

The Risk Theory Society is a group of economists, financial economists, and actuaries who undertake theoretical and applied research in the areas of insurance economics, financial economics related to insurance markets, actuarial science, and more generally in the economic analysis of risk and...

We welcome contributions on the following, non-exhaustive list: - What are the roles in the realm of shadow banking of different types of institutions, such as insurers, pension funds, plain vanilla mutual funds, ETFs, hedge funds, and real estate funds? - There have been recent performance...

Topics: - the evolution of bank business models and risk-taking preferences in response to regulatory change (Basel III) - the implications of the zero bound problem for (SME) lending choices - the existence of multiple policy objectives and private vs government lending - the challenges...

Topics: - Cross border bank lending, domestic credit, and the current account - Domestic and cross-border response of bank credit and leverage to national monetary policies and global liquidity - Econometric issues in modeling the current account, in particular in currency unions. - The role of...

The programme will include policy and academic sessions on the following themes: - Payment choice and global payments - Retail payments in a digital era - faster, cheaper, easier? - User experience, behaviour and trust in retail payments - Innovators, regulators and the competition-cooperation...

The Risk Theory Society is a group of economists, financial economists, and actuaries who undertake theoretical and applied research in the areas of insurance economics, financial economics related to insurance markets, actuarial science, and more generally in the economic analysis of risk and...