Research Topics in the FinTech Revolution
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