6th Future of Financial Information Conference

6th Future of Financial Information Conference is the only conference to look across all areas of finance through the lens of information.

From satellite images to natural language processing, the way investors source, process and trade on information is constantly evolving. The aim of this conference is to understand the ever-changing nature of financial information and its consequences for market efficiency.

Our keynote speakers are thought leaders in finance. Our presenters are selected not just on quality but also the novelty of insights they bring to the field. Even though you may see the same papers at general finance conferences, looking at them through the lens of information is unique and leads to unexpected connections and insights. Get ready for a lot of 'Aha' moments!

Conference Agenda

Here are just some of the topics and questions you can expect to see:

• "Fighting Climate Change with FinTech"
• "How Important Is Corporate Governance?"
• "Gender Bias and Crowd-Sourced Financial Information"
• "Cyber Risk-Driven Innovation in the Modern Data Economy"
• "The Anatomy of Machine Learning-Based Portfolio Performance"
• "What Drives Trading in Financial Markets?"

The conference will follow a hybrid format. All presentations will take place in person at Stockholm Business School. Members of the audience can choose to participate in person or online. As an online participant, you will be able to follow all presentations in real time, ask questions and access video recordings. We are always on the lookout for new ways to make online participation more interactive.

Conference Program

The full program features two keynote sessions, ten parallel sessions arranged in two tracks as well as a poster session. Our keynote speakers are true thought leaders in finance - see their short bios below.

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Keynote Speakers 2024

Our speakers combine academic excellence and industry experience with some of the most successful financial companies and we look forward to learning from them on both fronts!

Anna Pavlova

Anna Pavlova is Professor of Finance at London Business School and Academic Director of the AQR Asset Management Institute. She is also an Editor of the Review of Financial Studies and the Program Director of the Asset Pricing Program at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Her recent research focuses on the impact of institutional investors on asset prices, ESG investing, retail trading in options, the financialisaton of commodities and frictions in international financial markets. She has published in top journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies and Review of Economic Studies. Her work has been cited in a large number of international newspapers, including the Economist, Financial Times and Wall Street Journal.

Anna has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant and has received a number of other prestigious awards for her research and teaching. Prior to joining LBS, she was on the faculty at MIT Sloan School of Management. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Markus Leippold

Markus Leippold is Professor of Financial Engineering at the University of Zurich. Throughout his career he has been involved in numerous projects with the Swiss banking industry and with tech companies such as Google, and he currently sits on the benchmark oversight committee of STOXX/Qontigo, and the academic advisory board of Fedafin. His recent focus is on climate finance, sustainability, and artificial intelligence, particularly natural language processing. Currently, he is studying how corporations communicate their efforts to combat the adverse effects of climate change. From a corporate perspective, data reveals that imprecise climate commitments such as cheap talk occur less frequently in climate risk–exposed sectors and when institutional ownership is high. Overall, these results reveal an urgent need to establish transparent regulatory standards throughout the entire economy and to strengthen information campaigns on sustainable financial products. In another recent study, he shows how the Ukraine-Russian War, the US Inflation Reduction Act, and REPowerEU have impacted market expectations regarding the transition to a more sustainable economy.

Previously, Markus was a member of the faculty at Imperial College London. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics and Finance from the University of St. Gallen.

About FutFin.Info

The Future of Financial Information is a platform for everyone fascinated by how information flows through and impacts financial markets. We believe the time is ripe to explore the insights alternative data sources, such as satellite images, and new methods, such as textual analysis and machine learning, can provide. Check more at www.futfin.info

Our story

As researchers, investors or just interested observers, we are often left scratching our heads why financial markets behaved the way they did. It often boils down to the question of information – what did those traders know and respond to?

Out of this fundamental recognition, the Future of Financial Information theme was born.

It all started back in mid-2018 when Michał Dzieliński and his colleague at SBS, Björn Hagströmer, had to organize a conference. Clearly, there is no shortage of exciting topics – FinTech, alternative data, machine learning, to name a few – but whatever theme they tried to make of it turned out to be either too technical, too narrow or… already taken. In research, it is hard to come up with new ideas, even for a conference!

And then came Michał’s epiphany. What unifies all these disparate topics is information. After all, information is so central to financial markets that it has become somewhat cliché to say that „asset prices respond to information.” From this perspective, it actually seemed surprising that there was no academic conference dedicated to financial information in its different aspects. Turns out, the best ideas are sometimes hidden in plain sight…

The conference turned out to be an instant hit and is now a regular fixture of international finance research calendar. And since financial Information is a topic definitely worth discussing more often than once a year, we also host a bi-weekly webinar series with some of the most exciting researchers in the field.

FutFinInfo Program Chair

Michał Dzieliński is an Assistant Professor at Stockholm Business School since 2013. In his research, he combines textual analysis with finance to better understand the impact of communication by companies, central banks and information intermediaries (analysts, media…) on asset prices. He is a proud founder and Program Chair of the Future of Financial Information Conference.

Partners

We are grateful to Stockholm Business School for hosting us and to BlackRock Inc. for their generous support.

We hope to see you at the conference!