========================================================================================== Call for Papers - FinanceCom 2014 Enterprise Applications, Markets and Services in the Finance Industry Theme of 2014: ?New Emergent Trends of IT in Finance Industry? Sydney, Friday 12th December 2014 Publications will be published by Springer-Verlag as part of the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series (indexed in Scopus among others) http://www.springer.com/series/7911 SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 10th September 2014 http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/Submissions/2014FinanceCom/ WORKSHOP WEBSITE http://www.tut.fi/emmi/WWW/ameamain/financecom2014 A good opportunity to attend ICIS 2014 in Auckland, New Zealand 14th-17th December and attend this workshop beforehand! ========================================================================================== Advancements in Information and Communication Technologies have paved the way to new business models, markets, networks, services, and players in the financial services industry. FinanceCom 2014 invites papers that help to understand, drive and exploit the associated systems, technologies and opportunities. After very successful FinanceCom workshops in Sydney, Regensburg, Montreal, Paris, Frankfurt and Barcelona, FinanceCom 2014 will be returning to Sydney on 12th December 2014. The workshop spans multiple disciplines, including technical, services, economic, sociological and behavioral sciences. We welcome research from any of these disciplines, as well as cross-disciplinary work. We are open to various levels of analysis and methodology. Topics of interest in this research area include but are not limited to: * Networks and business models o Technology-Driven Transformation of the Financial Industry - towards Banking Value Networks o Business process outsourcing/offshoring and Information Systems o New e-Finance business models enabled by IT o New Bank Business Models & Challenges in a Post-Financial Crisis o Approaches for evaluating operational and credit risks as well as banking and market performance * Financial Markets o Electronic Markets Design and Engineering o Algorithmic and High Frequency Trading / Post Trading Systems and Infrastructures o Analysis of Intraday Market Data and News o Regulation of Electronic Financial Markets (e.g. MiFiD, EMIR or Dodd-Frank) o Private Equity and Ventual Capital Investments * IT and implementations o Role of new technologies (e.g. Web Services, Cloud, Big Data, and Grid Computing) o Implementation experiences and case studies o Enabling decision support systems in banking and financial markets o Enterprise communication in Banking & Financial Services o Interoperability of heterogeneous financial systems and evolving international standards * ?New? Emerging Digital and Virtual Financial Markets o Virtual Currencies (Bitcoin, Amazon, ?) o Alternative Banking, Loan, and Financial Market Models o New Customer Contact Trends o Crowdfunding, Crowdsourcing, and B2B/B2C Social Media o Loyalty Card, and Smart Card Markets o New consumer identification methods (e.g. Biometrics) o M/T/I Banking and Trading Services o New Banking and Payment Trends o Banking, payments, and currencies in emerging countries Important Dates ----------------------------- ? Submission open: 30th July 2014 ? Submission deadline: 10st September 2014 ? Notification of authors: 15th October 2014 ? Deadline revision: 15th November 2014 ? Final submission: 31st January 2015 (final book chapter version) Submission Details ----------------------------- Authors should submit papers of not more than 15 pages as per the Springer guidelines (see ?Instructions for LNBIP Authors? on the Springer series website: http://www.springer.com/series/7911). Authors will be given instructions after the workshop how to submit their works for the edited book. Note, that all submitted papers will be published in conference proceedings, however, only the very best papers will be selected for the Springer publication. All papers undergo a double blind review process. All papers are to be submitted via the following link: http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/Submissions/2014FinanceCom/ Instructions will be provided via a supplied email address (in case of any problems, please send an email to lartur@acm.org). Submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee. All correspondence will be with the specified primary contact. Publication ----------------------------- We plan to publish best papers as a post proceedings book in the Springer Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing series. For previous proceedings in this series, see LNBIP 4, LNBIP 23 and LNBIP 135 on http://www.springer.com/series/7911. Program Committee Chair Lugmayr Artur, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Local Organisation Chair Fethi Rabhi, University of New South Wales, Australia Maurice Peat, University of Sydney, Australia Program Committee Martin Aichner, Erste Group, Austria Peter Gomber, University of Frankfurt, Germany Dennis Kundisch, University of Paderborn, Germany Artur Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Nikolay Mehandjiev, University of Manchester, UK Jan Muntermann, University of Goettingen, Germany Dirk Neumann, University of Freiburg,Germany Maurice Peat, University of Sydney, Australia Fethi Rabhi, University of New South Wales, Australia Ryan Riordan, University of Ontario, Canada Christof Weinhardt, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Axel Winkelmann, University of Wuerzburg, Germany