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FBA Conference 2025
Join us in Thessaloniki, Greece on 11th-13th June 2025 for the Finance and Business Analytics Conference and experience three days of learning and networking. Adam Smith Business School of University of Glasgow and Bayes Business School of City St George’s, University of London will be hosting their 3rd joint conference in the city of Thessaloniki, Greece. We cordially invite esteemed academics, researchers, and professionals all over the world to submit innovative contributions in all areas of quantitative finance and business analytics. The conference is sponsored by the WARDS fund, University of Glasgow.
Dates and venue
11th-13th June 2025
Venue: Mediterranean Palace, 3, Salaminos str, Thessaloniki, Greece, 546 26
Areas of interest
Actuarial Mathematics, Asset Pricing, Banking and Financial Institutions, Behavioural Finance, Business Analytics, Commodities and Energy Economics, Corporate Finance and Governance, Decision Analysis in Finance, Empirical Finance, Fintech, Financial Markets, Financial Economics, Financial Mathematics, Forecasting, Green Finance and Sustainability, Insurance Analytics and RegTech, Operational Research in Finance, Wealth Management
Keynote speakers
Patrick Verwijmeren is a Professor of Corporate Finance at the Erasmus School of Economics (Erasmus University Rotterdam). He has publications in the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, The Accounting Review, and Management Science, among others. He has presented at many international conferences, including the WFA, AFA, and EFA meetings, and has been a speaker at TEDx twice. His research on proxy access has been cited in final rulings by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and Patrick has been involved in writing a report for the Dutch Ministry of Finance on the influence of hedge funds and the Dutch Authority of Consumer Markets on energy companies. His research featured in The Economist, Forbes Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times, among others.
Olivier Scaillet, Belgo-Swiss, is a Professor of Finance and Statistics at the Geneva Finance Research Institute of the University of Geneva, and has a senior chair at the Swiss Finance Institute. He holds a Ph.D. from University Paris IX Dauphine in applied mathematics. Professor Scaillet's research expertise is in the area of derivatives pricing, econometric theory and econometrics applied to finance and insurance. He has published several papers in top journals in econometrics and finance, and co-authored a book on financial econometrics. He has been one of the winners of the bi-annual award for the best paper published in the Journal of Empirical Finance on the topic of quantitative risk management and of the Banque Privée Espirito Santo award prize on the topic of mutual fund performance. He is an elected fellow of SoFiE, IAAE, and IMS, fellow of JoE, and elected member of ISI. He is an associate editor of several leading academic journals in econometrics, statistics, banking and finance. He is an advisor for research teams in the finance and banking industry.
Bo Becker is the Cevian Capital Professor of Finance in the Department of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics and Director of the Swedish House of Finance. His research is focused on corporate finance, especially corporate credit markets (corporate bank lending, bond issuance, in-court and out-of-court restructuring inter alia). His research has been published amongst others in the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies. He has been awarded several prizes and grants, including the Standard Life Prize for best paper in the ECGI Finance WP series, the Nordea Price for Best Corporate Finance Paper at the European Finance Association's annual meeting and the Lamfalussy Research Fellowship from the European Central Bank. He previously worked at the University of Illinois and at Harvard Business School, while he hold important editorial roles (Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, Financial Management) and is currently a department editor for finance at Management Science.
Publication opportunities
The conference organisers, in liaison with the Editor of the European Financial Management, will invite authors of selected high-quality papers that fall within the remit of the journal to submit their manuscripts to it. The standard peer-review process of the journal will be followed. Further information will be announced in due time.
International Journal of Finance & Economics
The conference organisers and the Editors of International Journal of Finance & Economics encourage conference participants to submit high-quality papers that focus on machine learning and big data in Finance. The standard submission process of the journal will apply. Further information will be announced in due time.
Please submit your papers and register through the website of the conference.
- The submission deadline is 1st May 2025.
- The Early bird registration deadline is 28th February 2025
- The final registration deadline for accepted papers is 9th May 2025.
Mediterranean Palace, 3, Salaminos str, Thessaloniki
54626 Thessaloníki , Greece
