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Finance and Business Analytics Conference

Edition III

11th-13th June 2025
Thessaloniki, Greece

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Venue
Speakers
Submission
Registration
Publications
Program
Organisers
Past events
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, University of Glasgow and Bayes Business School of City St George’s, University of London will be hosting their third 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.
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Submissions deadline
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Early birds deadline
30th April 2024
Registrations deadline
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Submissions deadline
1st May 2025
Early birds deadline
28th February 2025
Registrations deadline
9th May 2025

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

Dates and venue

Exterior View
Mediterranean Palace
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Date
11th-13th June 2025
Venue 
- Thessaloniki

Mediterranean Palace, 3, Salaminos str, Thessaloniki, Greece, 546 26

Practical info

Conference participants can benefit from a reduced rate of 160€ for the hotel rooms. Bookings at the reduced rate can be made in the link below. The offer is valid for a limited number of rooms, and it expires on 1st May 2025.
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The nearest airport is Thessaloniki Airport “Makedonia”, around 20 km from the Mediterranean Palace. The conference venue is on the west side of Thessaloniki, second largest city in Greece, close to the vibrant Tsimiski Avenue and the lively seaside nightlife of Nikis Avenue. The area is well-connected to the city centre and the airport by public transport.
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Keynote Speakers

Patrick

Professor Patrick Verwijmeren

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

Professor Olivier Scaillet

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

Professor Bo Becker

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.

Submission and registration information

Submission (Extended Abstract/Full Manuscript)

Please submit your extended abstract (minimum 6 pages) or your full manuscript (maximum 50 pages) in PDF format at www.fba-conference.com, using the 'Submission' button on the right hand side. Use Times New Roman 12-point font (1.5 spaced).

Each submission should contain:

  • Title

  • Authors and their full affiliations (presenter indicated in boldface)

  • Short abstract (max 250 words)

The submission deadline is 1st May 2025.

Authors will be informed of the outcome of their submission within 10 working days.

Registration Fees

Registration opens on 5th December 2025.

Register by purchasing a “Registration Ticket” through Eventbrite:

  • Early bird rate: £450 (available until midnight UK time, 28th February 2025)

  • Standard rate: £500 (available from 1st March 2025)

  • Student early bird rate: £400 (available until midnight UK time, 28th February 2025)

  • Student standard rate: £450 (available from 1st March 2025)

  • Accompanying person rate: £150 (this fee is intended for the person who wants to accompany a participant to the conference gala dinner but will not participate in the scientific programme). If this applies to you, please purchase the relevant ticket at Eventbrite.

The fee includes refreshments, lunches (two days), and the conference gala dinner – further updates to follow.

The deadline for registration to present accepted research works is 9th May 2025.

All participants, including presenters, are responsible for their own travel and accommodation expenses.

For a paper to be listed in the conference programme, payment from at least one author is required by 9th May 2025. Participants who withdraw before 9th May 2025 will be refunded, subject to a cancellation fee of £200. Participants who cancel after 9th May 2025 will not receive a refund. For any additional information please contact us via www.fba-conference.com or at fbaconference@gmail.com.

Publication opportunties

European Financial Management

The conference organisers, in liaison with the Editor of the European Financial Management, invite conference participants to submit high-quality papers, falling within the remit of the journal, to the special issue “Finance and Business Analytics”. The standard submission process of the journal will apply. 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.

Conference program and abstracts

The link to the conference program will be posted here a month after the submission deadline.

The link to the conference abstracts will be posted here after the conference program is complete.

Meeting the organisers

Conference chairs

Georgios Sermpinis

Adam Smith Business School 
University of Glasgow

Co-organiser photo, Mr Kyriakou

Ioannis Kyriakou

Bayes Business School
City St George’s, University of London

Co-organiser photo, Mr Babis Stasinakis

Charalampos Stasinakis

Adam Smith Business School 
University of Glasgow

Co-organiser photo, Mr Evangelosa

Evangelos Vagenas-Nanos

Adam Smith Business School
University of Glasgow

Georgios Sermpinis

Adam Smith Business School 
University of Glasgow

Co-organiser photo, Mr Babis Stasinakis

Charalampos Stasinakis

Adam Smith Business School 
University of Glasgow

Co-organiser photo, Mr Kyriakou

Ioannis Kyriakou

Bayes Business School

City St George’s, University of London

Co-organiser photo, Mr Evangelosa

Evangelos Vagenas-Nanos

Adam Smith Business School
University of Glasgow

Local organiser

Georgios Panos

School of Economics
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

 

Vasilios Sogiakas

Department of Regional Development
Ionian University

 

Scientific Committee

  • Christos Alexakis, Rennes School of Business

  • Panagiotis Andrikopoulos, Coventry University

  • Leonidas Barbopoulos, University of Edinburgh

  • Gjergji Cici, University of Kansas 

  • Christian Ewald, University of Glasgow and Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences

  • Emilios Galariotis, Audencia Business School

  • Po-Hsuan Hsu, National Tsing Hua University

  • Vasso Ioannidou, City, University of London

  • Sofia Johan, Florida Atlantic University

  • Neil Kellard, University of Essex

  • Alexandros Kontonikas, University of Essex

  • Jia Liu, University of Portsmouth

  • Malvina Marchese, City, University of London

  • Hans-Joerg von Mettenheim, IPAG Business School

  • Duc Khuong Nguyen, EMLV Business School

  • Richard Payne, Bayes Business School

  • Lucio Sarno, University of Cambridge

  • Mark P. Taylor, Washington University in St. Louis

  • Sjur Westgaard, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

  • Constantin Zopounidis, Technical University of Crete

Past editions

Edition I - 2023
Lefkada, Greece
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Edition II - 2024
Athens, Greece
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Key dates edition 2025

Submissions deadline
1st May 2025
Early birds deadline
28th February 2025
Registrations deadline
8th May 2025

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