Fintech

Journal: Journal of Risk and Financial Management

Special Issue Title: Financial Technologies (Fintech) in Finance and Economics

Special Issue Editor: Dr. Xianrong (Shawn) Zheng

Submission Deadline: 30 June 2024

Guest Editor

Name: Dr. Xianrong (Shawn) Zheng

Department or Institute, University, Zip code City, Country:

Information Technology & Decision Sciences Department, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529, USA

E-Mail: x1zheng@odu.edu

Website: https://www.odu.edu/directory/xianrong-zheng

Interests: AI, Cloud Computing, FinTech

Summary

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue focuses on “Financial Technologies (Fintech) in Finance and Economics”. Financial Technologies (Fintech) is one of the disruptive innovations in IT and finance. Fintech will reshape how the financial services industry structures and provisions. It has a transformative impact on financial sectors, including banking, insurance, investments, securities, etc. Fintech nurtures new business models, products, and services. It aims to improve the efficiency of the financial services industry through modern IT. Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), deep learning, big data, cloud computing, and blockchain play key roles in Fintech.

This Special Issue calls for papers on emerging information technologies in finance and economics. It welcomes research articles that present novel theory, algorithms, systems, and applications of financial information technologies, and encourages submissions from multiple disciplines, including statistics, computer science, information systems, finance, etc. Topics of interest include, but not limited to, AI in finance, ML in finance, big data in finance, cloud computing in finance, algorithmic trading, smart trading strategies, robo-advisors, blockchain, cryptocurrency, token economics, digital economics, etc.

Dr. Xianrong (Shawn) Zheng

Guest Editor

Keywords

·         Financial technologies (Fintech)

·         Data science

·         Algorithmic trading

·         Robo-advisors

·         Blockchain

·         Cryptocurrency

·         Token economics

·         Digital economics