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Research Topics in the FinTech Revolution

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1. Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies, and the Political, Social, and Economic Impact

-- Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies

  • Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies
  • The Future of Bitcoin Exchanges
  • Bitcoin Payment Protocol
  • The Regulation and Risks of Cryptocurrency
  • Alternate Cryptocurrencies - Bitcoin Alternatives
  • Bitcoin Security Against Theft
  • User-friendly Bitcoin Key Management
  • Micro Payments
  • Crowdfunding
  • Bitcoin Transaction Visualizations
  • Ethereum
  • Tokenization
  • Initial Coin Offering (ICO) and Security Token Offerings (STOs)

-- The Political, Social, and Economic Impact

  • Bitcoin’s Social Impact: From Global to Local 
  • Cryptography for financial markets
  • Digital asset pricing, trading, mechanism design, and smart contracts
  • Dynamic credit rating and asset pricing
  • Entrepreneurial Fintech models
  • Financial risk indicator, platform and network modelling
  • Modelling natural, online, social, economic, cultural, and political factors in finance
  • Modelling financial scenarios, emergence, uncertainty, and ill- to un-structured systemic risk
  • Innovation in credit loans and risk genes
  • Innovations in P2P lending and crowd-funding
  • Machine Learning and financial datasets
  • Models for robo-advising
  • Novel digital payment platforms
  • Open banking and its implications
  • Real time financial valuations
  • Social implications of Fintech
  • Textual analysis of financial data
  • Novel theories and tools for digital assets and their valuation, risk analysis, and management
  • Blockchain and tools for cryptocurrency
  • Visualization of big data financial systems
  • Complex financial technology and socio-economic problems and networks
  • Modelling complex relations, dependencies, interactions, and networking in finance
  • Modelling regional and global financial activities, behaviours, events, and their impact and risk
  • Cross-market, digital financial products


2. Blockchain Technology and The Political, Social, and Economic Impact

 -- Blockchain Technology

  • Public, Consortium, and Private Blockchains
  • Blockchain-based Systems
  • Fintech and Blockchain
  • Decentralization as a New Model of Trust
  • The Future of Financial Services
  • The Future of Insurance and Blockchain
  • Excess Capacity Management Applications and the Blockchain
  • Supply Chain Management and Blockchain
  • Blockchain Smart Contracts for Land Registry
  • Digital Currencies and Blockchain
  • Sidechains
  • Hyperledger
  • Public and Private Blockchain

--  The Political, Social, and Economic Impact

  • The Blockchain: The Coming Revolution in Social Organization
  • Regulations in Blockchain
  • Blockchain and Standards

 

3. Big Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and FinTech, Cross-Process

 -- Big Data

  • Open Data
  • Data Security 2.0: Differential Privacy and Homomorphic Encryption
  • Latest Research in Big Data in Finance 
  • Optimization of Real-time Data Analytics 
  • Data Analytics and Financial Econometrics 
  • Financial Sentiment and News Analysis 
  • Behavioral Data Finance 
  • Data Security and Legal Protection 
  • Integrating Technology and the Access to Massive Data Sources 
  • High-frequency Trading and Algorithmic Execution
  • Big Data Techniques for Efficient Volatility Management 
  • Big Data in Fixed Income Pricing
  • Big Data in FinTech: Banking API (Application Programming Interface), Market Sentiment Data for Investments, Social Media In Credit Scoring
  • Big Data and Credit Risk
  • Big Data Analytics
  • Data Analytics and Accounting
  • Predictive Modeling
  • Policy-making Mechanisms and Modelling Approaches 

-- Artificial Intelligence (AI)

  • AI in Finance
  • AI-powered expense tracking and budgeting app
  • AI in Accounting
  • AI in Production: High-frequency Trading, Fraud Detection and Credit Scoring
  • Predictive Analytics in Finance and Accounting - Current Applications and Trends
  • Open-Source AI Platforms 
  • AI Regulations: Bias Prevention, Auditable and Explainable of Machine Learning Models 

 

4. FinTech: Banking, Finance, Accounting, Insurance, and Lending

-- Four Main Categories of FinTech 

  • Digital lending, payments, blockchain and digital wealth management 
  • Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) 

-- Banking

  • Financial Inclusion and Financial Exclusion
  • FinTech and Financial Inclusion
  • Economic Inclusion and Financial Health
  • Agriculture Fintech
  • Digital Finance and Commerce
  • Mobile Banking and Payments
  • Future Money
  • Banking Technology
  • FinTech and Banking Reforms
  • Customer’s Banking Experience
  • FinTech - opportunity, threat or hype?
  • Regulations in FinTech
  • Legal and Regulatory
  • FinTech Regulatory Sandbox
  • Harnessing Fintech in Retail Banking 

-- Finance and Accounting

  • Quantum finance and economics
  • Robotics In finance And accounting
  • Robotic process automation (RPA) in finance
  • Crowdfunding
  • Micro-loans
  • Credit facilities

-- Insurance

  • Digital Transformation in Insurance
  • InsurTech
  • P2P Insurance
  • Blockchain and Insurance

-- Lending

  • The Future of Lending
  • Equity Crowdfunding and Peer-to-Peer Lending
  • Alternative Lending
  • Marketplace Lending & Alternative Financing

 

5. Cybersecurity, Infrastructure and Platform

 -- Cybersecurity

  • KSI (Keyless Signature Infrastructure) Blockchain Technology
  • Public Distributed Ledger
  • Distributed Ledger Technology
  • Cryptocurrency Trading Platform
  • Equity Crowdfunding Platform
  • Cybersecurity of Financial Technologies
  • Mobile Wallet Security
  • Man-in-the-middle Attack
  • Electronic Money (or e-Money)
  • Digital Currency
  • The Future of Money
  • The Future of Fintech in Capital Markets 

-- Infrastructure and Platform

  • Digital Trust
  • Regulatory Sandbox
  • AI and the Interconnectedness of Everything
  • Secure and Trusted Cloud Services
  • Applications of Quantum Computing in Finance

 

6. Payments, Remittance, and Wealth Management

 -- Payments

  • Emerging Payments
  • Digital Wallets
  • Mobile Wallets
  • Peer-to-Peer Payments

-- Remittance

  • Remittance Technology
  • Mobile Remittance Technology   

 

7. The Economy and the Stock Market, Investments, and Wealth Management

 -- The Economy and The Stock Market

  • Gross Domestic Product (GDP) 
  • Derivative
  • Bond 
  • Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) 
  • Net Present Value (NPV) 
  • Internal Rate of Return (IRR) 
  • Diversification 

-- Investments

  • Sensitivity Analysis 
  • Equity 
  • Earnings Per Share (EPS) 
  • Debt/Equity Ratio 
  • Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) 
  • Watchlist 
  • 'Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) 
  • Return On Equity (ROE) 
  • Working Capital 
  • Risk Tolerance 
  • Current Ratio 
  • Return on Investment (ROI) 
  • Price-Earnings Ratio (P/E Ratio) 
  • Cyber Monday 
  • Initial Coin Offering (ICO) 
  • Debt/Equity Ratio 
  • Black Friday 
  • Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) 
  • Capitulation 
  • Tariff
  • Donchian Channels 
  • Consumer Price Index (CPI) 
  • Cost of Debt 
  • Financial Plan 
  • Trustee 
  • Bubble 
  • Money Manager
  • Whole Life Insurance 
  • Stop Order 
  • Market Index 
  • Indicator 
  • Coverage Ratio 
  • Candlestick 
  • Systematic Risk 
  • Moving Average (MA) 
  • Stock Option 
  • Portfolio and Portfolio Manager
  • Business Cycle 
  • Time Value of Money (TVM) 
  • Intrinsic Value 
  • Economies of Scale 
  • January Effect 
  • Free Cash Flow 
  • Quick Ratio 
  • Enterprise Value (EV) 
  • Dividend 
  • Inventory Turnover 
  • Christmas Tree 
  • Santa Claus Rally 
  • Market Capitalization 
  • Bear Market and Bull Market
  • Correction
  • Beta 
  • Profit Margin 
  • Law of Supply and Demand: Elasticity vs. Inelasticity of Demand, How Does Price Elasticity Affect Supply, Equilibrium Price, Equilibrium Quantity

-- Wealth Management

 Family Office & Private Wealth Management

  • Digital Integration in Wealth Management
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