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Finance and Business Analytics Conference

Edition IV

5th-7th September 2026
Rhodes, Greece

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Publications
Program
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Venue
Speakers
Submission
Registration
Publications
Program
Organisers
Past events
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.
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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 August 2026
Early birds deadline
31st May 2026
Registrations deadline
15th August 2026

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

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Date
5th-7th September 2026
Venue 
- Ixia, Rhodes

Sheraton Rhodes Resort, Ixia, Ialyssos Avenue, Rhodes 851 00, Greece

Practical info

Conference attendees are eligible for a discounted room rate at the Sheraton Rhodes Resort. To secure this rate, please follow the link below. Room availability is limited, and participants are responsible for making their own accommodation arrangements.
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The nearest airport is Rhodes Airport, around 15 km from the Sheraton Rhodes Resort. The conference venue is on northeast side of the Rhodes Island, in the vibrant area of Ialyssos, Ixia. This area is known for its vibrant nightlife, traditional restaurants, resorts and beach, which is particularly popular to windsurfers.The area is also famous for its rich history, which includes the ancient ruins of Ialyssos city on Mount Filerimos. The conference venue is around 3km from the amazing old town of Rhodes and it is well connected with public transport.
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Keynote Speakers

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Professor Agostino Capponi

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

Professor Michelle Lowry

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.

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 August 2026.

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

Registration Fees

Registrations open on 5th January 2026.

Register by purchasing a “Registration Ticket” through Eventbrite:

  • Early bird rate: £450 (available until midnight UK time, 31st May 2026)

  • Standard rate: £500 (available from 1st June 2026)

  • Student early bird rate: £400 (available until midnight UK time, 31st May 2026)

  • Student standard rate: £450 (available from 1st June 2026)

  • Attendance Rate: £350 (this fee is intended for the person who wants to attend the conference presentations and the conference gala but will not participate in the scientific programme - available from 5th January 2026)

  • 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 - available from 5th January 2026)

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

The deadline for registration to present accepted research papers  is 15th August 2026.

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 15th August 2026. Participants who withdraw before 15th August 2026 will be refunded, subject to a cancellation fee of £200. Participants who cancel after 15th August 2026 will not receive a refund. For any additional information please contact us via www.fba-conference.com or at fbaconference@gmail.com.

Publication opportunties 

Annals of Operations Research

The conference organisers, in liaison with the Editor of Annals of Operations Research, will invite conference participants to submit high-quality papers, falling within the remit of the journal, to a relevant special issue after the event is completed. The standard submission process of the journal will apply. Further information will be announced in due time.

Journal of Forecasting

The conference organisers and the Editors of Journal of Forecasting will invite conference participants to submit high-quality papers, falling within the remit of the journal, to a relevant special issue after the event is completed. The standard submission process of the journal will apply. Further information will be announced in due time.

Conference program and abstracts

The conference program will be available here.

The conference abstracts will be available here.

Past conference programs are available here.

 

Meeting the organisers

Conference chairs

Georgios Sermpinis

Adam Smith Business School 
University of Glasgow

Co-organiser photo, Mr Kyriakou

Ioannis Kyriakou

Bayes Business School (formely Cass)
City St George’s, University of London

Unnamed

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

Unnamed

Charalampos Stasinakis

Adam Smith Business School 
University of Glasgow

Co-organiser photo, Mr Kyriakou

Ioannis Kyriakou

Bayes Business School (formely Cass)
City St George’s, University of London

Co-organiser photo, Mr Evangelosa

Evangelos Vagenas-Nanos

Adam Smith Business School
University of Glasgow

Conference co-chair

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Gjergji Cici

The University of Kansas
School of Business

Local Organizers

Georgios Panos

School of Economics
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

 

Vasilios Sogiakas

Hellenic Open University 

 

Scientific Committee

  • Christos Alexakis, Rennes School of Business

  • Panagiotis Andrikopoulos, Coventry University

  • Leonidas Barbopoulos, University of Edinburgh

  • Patrick Verwijmeren, Erasmus University Rotterdam

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

  • Emilios Galariotis, KFUPM Business School

  • Po-Hsuan Hsu, National Tsing Hua University

  • Vasso Ioannidou, City St George’s, 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 St George’s, University of London

  • Hans-Joerg von Mettenheim, IPAG Business School

  • Duc Khuong Nguyen, EMLV Business School

  • Richard Payne, City St George’s, University of London

  • 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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Edition III - 2025
Thessaloniki, Greece
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