ICFT 2010, aims to bring together researchers, scientists, engineers, and scholar students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of Financial Technologies, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted.

Possible issues and topics for workshop papers are: - Law and ecological tipping points - Law and environmental management: prescriptive or enabling? - Law and marine ecosystem adaptive management - The rule of law: legal certainty vs. flexibility and adaptability? - Private property, state...

Themes: 1) Case studies on innovative and sustainable microinsurance programmes and/or products 2) Thematic issues a) New distribution channels b) Claims handling c) Strategies to develop microinsurance d) Microinsurance solutions for natural disasters e) Insurance literacy 3) Scientific track...

Theoretical and empirical research papers in all areas of accounting, banking, and finance are welcome to be submitted for presentation. Attendance at the symposium is by invitation only.

The conference aims to shed new light on the uses of high frequency financial data in improved risk measurement, management, and asset pricing, including ways in which to distill large intraday data bases into manageable information structures. Examples of studies that fall within the scope of...

In three panel discussions, the conference will explore the challenges facing the Russian Government in building a competitive financial system through its stated twin aims of establishing Moscow as a global financial centre, and the Ruble as a leading reserve currency. An assessment of the...

We invite scholars to present and discuss their research on the economic, political, social and cultural impacts of migration, with focus on Nordic countries in themselves and in broader international comparisons. Results of empirical research engaging both qualitative and quantitative methods...

Topics: - Dynamic asset allocation - Portfolio choice and liquidity - Asset pricing and liquidity - Time-varying risks and returns - Predictability in asset prices - Portfolio rebalancing and trading

The focus of the symposium is threefold: - present new knowledge on family capitalism in the financial world - discuss issues related to succession problems - analyse the pros and cons of commissioned research and discuss the scientifically-based biography as a genre. Each part of the focus is...

Distinguished international scholars lecture in thematic sessions on: Religion & the Welfare State, Immigration & the Welfare State, The Service Sector in the Welfare State, as well as Agency & Welfare State Development.