In recent years, AI and FinTech have been rapidly developing and reshaping business practices and the financial services industry. In parallel, emerging technologies, e.g., machine learning and big data methods, have also been increasingly applied in the study of financial economics. Such developments have generated considerable interest in the new and important research area of AI and emerging technologies.

Following the success of the first four FinTech conferences, the Department of Finance in the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University and Management Science will jointly host the fifth annual FinTech conference. The conference will be held on October 3-4, 2025 at the Buckhead Center of Georgia State University in Atlanta.

TOPICS: We invite the submission of theoretical and empirical research on the frontiers of AI and FinTech, including but not limited to the following topics:

AI Methods and Applications in Finance and Economics: Applications of AI, machine learning, and other novel analytic methods in research across all areas of financial economics, including corporate finance, asset pricing, and financial intermediation.

Impact of AI and New Technologies: The influence of AI and emerging technologies on corporations, labor markets, trading, financial markets, and the macroeconomy.

Risk and Regulation of AI and FinTech: The risks associated with AI and FinTech, including systemic risk, market failure, AI alignment, algorithmic bias, and data privacy, along with related regulatory considerations.

Other AI and FinTech topics: Big Data, Digital Economy, DeFi, Cryptoeconomics, and additional relevant topics.

The conference will provide a Best Paper Award and a Best Discussant Award.

The submission deadline is June 15, 2025. Co-sponsorship with Management Science offers authors a semi-fault free dual submission option. Authors are encouraged to both submit to the conference and indicate their interest for dual submissions to Management Science, but can also choose to submit to the conference only. Management Science collaborating editors will invite select papers for dual submissions to the journal around the conference dates. For full details regarding the dual submission option, please consult "Policy for Dual Submission" (https://pubsonline.informs.org/page/mnsc/submission-guidelines) on Management Science's "Submission Guideline" page.

CONFERENCE PROGRAM CHAIRS: Baozhong Yang, Zhen Shi, and Manish Jha (Georgia State University)

MANAGEMENT SCIENCE COLLABORATING EDITORS: Will Cong (Cornell University) and Tomasz Piskorski (Columbia University)

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Tarun Ramadorai (Imperial College)

ADVISORY COMMITTEE:
Will Cong (Cornell University)
Campbell Harvey (Duke University)
Zhiguo He (Stanford University)
Gerard Hoberg (University of Southern California)
Wei Jiang (Emory University)
Kose John (New York University)
Bryan Kelly (Yale University)
Laura Veldkamp (Columbia University)
David Yermack (New York University)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (preliminary):
Tania Babina (University of Maryland)
Svetlana Bryzgalova (London Business School)
Leland Bybee (University of Chicago)
Agostino Capponi (Columbia University)
Lauren Cohen (Harvard University)
Will Cong (Cornell University)
Zhi Da (University of Notre Dame)
Francesco D’Acunto (Georgetown University)
Michael Ewens (Columbia University)
Maryam Farboodi (MIT)
Gavin Feng (City University of Hong Kong)
Thierry Foucault (HEC Paris)
Itay Goldstein (University of Pennsylvania)
John Griffin (University of Texas at Austin)
Umit Gurun (University of Texas at Dallas)
Zhiguo He (Stanford University)
Campbell Harvey (Duke University)
Sabrina Howell (New York University)
Urban Jermann (University of Pennsylvania)
Gerard Hoberg (University of Southern California)
Jiekun Huang (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
Byoung-Hyoun Hwang (Nanyang Technology University)
Wei Jiang (Emory University)
Kose John (New York University)
Josh Lerner (Harvard University)
Tim Loughran (University of Notre Dame)
Song Ma (Yale University)
Gustavo Manso (University of California at Berkeley)
Simon Mayer (Carnegie Mellon University)
Andreas Park (University of Toronto)
Markus Pelger (Stanford University)
Christine Parlour (University of California at Berkeley)
Daniel Rabetti (National University of Singapore)
Uday Rajan (University of Michigan)
Alberto Rossi (Georgetown University)
Fahad Saleh (University of Florida)
Eric So (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Yinan Su (Johns Hopkins University)
Lea Stern (University of Washington)
Ilya Strebulaev (Stanford University)
Ansgar Walther (University of Warwick)
Junbo Wang (Louisiana State University)
Michael Weber (University of Chicago)
Wei Xiong (Princeton University)
David Yermack (New York University)
Liyan Yang (University of Toronto)
Xiaoyan Zhang (Tsinghua University)
Guofu Zhou (Washington University at St. Louis)

INTERNAL MEMBERS AT GSU:
Vikas Agarwal
Rasha Ashraf
Hadiye Aslan
Mark Chen
Lixin Huang
Manish Jha
Omesh Kini
Scott Murray
Chip Ryan
Zhen Shi
Ajay Subramanian
Yusen Xia
Sophia Jing Xue
Baozhong Yang
Vincent Yao

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Authors should submit an electronic version of the paper in PDF format no later than June 15, 2025. There is a submission fee of $100. Submission information is at the conference webpage: https://www.gsufintechconf.com/. Paper selection will be finalized by mid-August of 2025. The Management Science dual submission decisions will be finalized around the conference dates.

DUAL SUBMISSION OPTION WITH MANAGEMENT SCIENCE: Authors submitting papers to the conference are also offered a dual submission option with Management Science. Interested authors should indicate whether they want to have a conference submission considered for potential recommendations. After reviewing the conference submissions, collaborating DEs would invite a subset of the papers selected from the recommendation list. No notification from Management Science will be sent to the authors if a paper is not invited for dual submission. The authors can then decide if they accept the invitation. A dual-submission paper is semi-fault-free — if the paper is desk-rejected by the DEs/AEs without being sent out to the reviewers, it can be submitted again to Management Science as a fresh submission. Dual-submission papers are also guaranteed a minor revision/conditional acceptance or rejection after one round of revision. For full details regarding the dual submission option, please consult Management Science's "Submission Guideline" page https://pubsonline.informs.org/page/mnsc/submission-guidelines