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FBA Conference 2025
Join us in Rhodes, Greece on 5th-7th September 2026 for the Finance and Business Analytics Conference and experience three days of learning and networking. Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow and Bayes Business School of City St George’s, University of London will be hosting their fourth joint conference in Rhodes, 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
5thth-7th September 2026
Venue: Sheraton Rhodes Resort, Ixia, Ialyssos Avenue, Rhodes 851 00, Greece
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
Agostino Capponi is a Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia University, with a courtesy appointment at the Columbia Business School. He is also the director of the Center for Digital Finance and Technologies, and a member of the Data Science Institute. Agostino's research interests are in market microstructure, financial technology, economic networks, and machine learning in finance. Agostino's research has been published in major journals of his field, including Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Monetary Economics, Management Science, Operations Research inter alia. Agostino is a fellow of the Crypto and Blockchain Economic Research Forum, an academic fellow of the Luohoan Academy established by the Alibaba Group, and external research fellow at the Fintech@Cornell Center. Agostino's research has been funded by major public agencies including the NSF, DARPA, U.S. Department of Energy, and private agencies and corporations including J.P. Morgan, IBM, Ripple, the Ethereum Foundation, the Institute for New Economic Thinking, the Global Risk Institute, the Clearpool Group, and the OCP Group. Agostino is an Editor of Management Science in the Finance Department and of Operations Research in the Financial Engineering Department, while he has served as editor or associate editor amongst others in Finance and Stochastics, Mathematical Finance, SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics and Operations Research Letters.
Michelle Lowry is the TD Bank Professor of Finance at the LeBow School of Business, Drexel University. In addition, she has been a visiting professor at HEC, the Wharton School, and INSEAD. She is an editor of the Review of Corporate Finance Studies, and past associate editor of both the Journal of Financial Economics and the Review of Financial Studies. She is a founding member of AFFECT (Academic Female Finance Committee), which strives for gender equality among the field of finance academics. Currently, she serves as a member of the AFFECT advisory board. She has served as President of the Financial Management Association (FMA), a director of the American Finance Association (AFA), and a director of the European Finance Association (EFA). Her research focuses on a variety of issues in empirical corporate finance, including initial public offerings, corporate governance, shareholder voting, environmental and social issues, regulation, lobbying, and mergers. She is particularly interested in the ways that companies’ corporate governance affects their performance around corporate events. Her research also relates to the effects of policy on firm outcomes, in particular regulation related to firm governance and shareholder voting. Her research has been published in top finance journals, including the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Finance. She is the winner of the 2021 Jensen Prize, for Best Paper published in The Journal of Financial Economics in corporate finance and organization, and the 2025 Brattle Prize (distinguished paper) by the Journal of Finance in corporate finance. Her research has attracted attention in the popular press, with cites in the Wall Street Journal, NPR's Morning Edition, Forbes, and the Economist.
Publication opportunities
The conference organisers in liaison with the Editor of Annals of Operations Research, will invite conference participants to submit high-quality papers to a special issue. The standard submission process of the journal will apply.
The conference organisers and the Editors of Journal of Forecasting will invite conference participants to submit high-quality papers to a relevant special issue after the event is completed. The standard submission process of the journal will apply.
Please submit your papers and register through the website of the conference.
- The submission deadline is 1st August 2026.
- The Early bird registration deadline is 31st of May 2026.
- The final registration deadline for accepted papers is 15th August 2026.
Ixia, Ialyssos Avenue, Rhodes , Greece
851 00 Ródos , Grèce
