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SUMMARY:Fourth Annual Cambridge Conference on Alternative Finance
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LOCATION:Judge Business School, Trumpington Street, Newnham, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, East of England, England, CB2 1QZ, United Kingdom
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DESCRIPTION:CfP Deadline Date:
March 31, 2019
Conference Event:
July 1, 2019
Event Location:
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Keynote Speaker(s):
Maureen O’Hara (Cornell University)
Organizer(s):
University of Cambridge
The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, with the support of the CME
Group Foundation, is hosting the fourth annual conference on alternative
finance on 1 July 2019 at University of Cambridge Judge Business School
(CJBS).
RESEARCH PAPERS:
Alternative finance is defined as instruments, channels, or systems of
finance that emerge outside of the regulated banking system. It makes use
of technological innovations, such as alternative currencies,
disintermediated business models and lending mechanisms to change the way
finance has been carried out traditionally. Other terms that have been used
to describe it include disruptive finance, distributed finance, fintech, or
disintermediated finance. This new era of financial innovation with its
characteristics of transparency, speed and convenience have changed the way
people, businesses and institutions perform financial transactions, invest
in assets, approach potential financing sources and operate. The evolution
of this area has been widely covered in the media and is playing an
increasingly important role in helping businesses and individuals access
the funds they need. This small boutique conference solicits papers from
all areas of the social sciences that will shed light on this emerging
area.
TOPICS:
Topics include but are not limited to:
- Historical perspectives - Throughout history there have always been
instruments and channels of finance operating outside of a formal,
regulated banking and capital markets system, and this activity has often
been a source of financial innovation. Are there parallels between
historical and current forms of alternative finance?
- Business models - Different types of alternative finance models and how
they solve asymmetric information problems in businesses, industries, or
countries
- Governance models - How alternative finance institutions affect corporate
governance or financial policy
- Trust and reputation - The evolution of trust and reputation for
platforms
- Crowdfunding and capital formation for early-stage firms
- Network and social effects affecting platform adoption
- Alternative analytics and new forms of data
- Privacy concerns, security, and risks with distributed financing
- Alternative currencies, Exchange tradeable digital assets, Collateralised
coins, Digital cryptocurrencies or digital merchant tokens, Sovereign
backed issuance
- Blockchains, Distributed ledger technologies, Digital Autonomous
Organisations, Smart contracting, Internet of things
- Regulatory implications of the spread of alternative technologies
FORMAT:
The conference will open on Monday 1 July at the Cambridge Judge Business
School, with morning refreshments followed by a full day of paper
presentations (including lunch and afternoon refreshments). The day's
events will be followed by a cocktail reception and dinner at King’s
College (founded in 1441 by Henry VI, it is world-famous for its Chapel).
Following the academic conference, there will also be an opportunity to
present to an audience of invitation-only senior practitioners, policy
regulators and industry thought leaders who will be attending the
“Reimagining Alternative Finance: Global Perspectives Local Insights”
annual CCAF practitioner conference the following day.
IMPORTANT DATES:
- Abstract and paper submission deadline: 31 March 2019
- Notification of acceptance: End April 2019
- Final paper submission deadline: Early June 2019
- Academic Conference: 1 July 2019
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
Interested authors are kindly invited to submit their papers to
ccaf@jbs.cam.ac.uk by 31 March 2019 using the subject heading - Conference
on Alternative Finance submission. Complete papers will receive priority.
Further Information
Link CfP:
Fourth Annual Cambridge Conference on Alternative Finance
Link Conference:
Fourth Annual Cambridge Conference on Alternative Finance
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