6th ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF-25)

Call for papers

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF) is a scholarly peer-reviewed conference that aims to bring together researchers from academia, government, and industry to share challenges, advances, and insights on the impact of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning on Finance. ICAIF is supported by ACM. ICAIF’25 will take place in Singapore between 15-18 November 2025.

We invite participation from academia, government, regulatory agencies, financial institutions, NGOs, and other stakeholders in the AI and Finance community. For the latest information, join the email list aifin-worldwide@googlegroups.com.

ICAIF ’25 invites high-quality research paper submissions that connect AI and Finance from both methodological and applicational perspectives. Details on paper submission are outlined below, including important dates, topic areas, submission guidelines (including templates & formatting), paper review, and policies.

General Chair
Tat Seng Chua (National University of Singapore)

Program Chairs
Bo An (Nanyang Technological University)
David Byrd (Bowdoin College)
Zhen Zeng (J.P. Morgan AI Research)

Workshop Chairs
Ke-Wei Huang (National University of Singapore)
Stevan Rudinac (University of Amsterdam)

Important Dates

AOE = Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12)
Paper submission deadline: July 18, 2025
Author notification: September 26, 2025
Main conference: November 15-18, 2025

Topic Areas

ICAIF ’25 invites high-quality research paper submissions that connect AI and Finance from both methodological and applicational perspectives.

Methodologies should be relevant to general financial problems that may include but are not limited to:
Generative AI, simulation, and synthetic data generation
Foundation models for financial decision-making
AI agents and multi-agent systems
Reinforcement learning and sequential decision-making
Multimodal financial data analysis (text, image, time series, audio)
Trustworthy and responsible AI in finance -- explainability, ethics, fairness, security, and privacy of AI & ML systems
AI governance, computational regulation, and compliance
AI-driven risk management and fraud detection
Meta-learning and transfer learning
Federated learning and decentralized finance
Robustness and uncertainty quantification
Validation and calibration of financial models
Quantum computing
Graph theory and network analysis

Potential applications of interest may include, but are not limited to:
Fraud detection for credit cards and mortgages
Early detection of firm defaults
Blockchain and cryptocurrency
Risk modeling and risk management
Trading (for example, optimal execution, market making, smart order routing, and hedging)
Asset pricing
Robot-advising and investment recommendations
Forecasting of financial scenarios
Financial time series analysis and factor models
Understanding customer behaviour for credit decisioning, servicing and recommendations
AI-Driven Financial Inclusion
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Investing

Paper Submission & Templates
Submission link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICAIF2025

Papers must be submitted no later than July 18, 2025, by 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AOE), and must be submitted via CMT. For submission information, please visit https://icaif25.org/.

Papers must be formatted according to ACM guidelines (see below) and must be no longer than eight (8) pages in total (when in two-column signconf format), including all figures and references. Authors are required to submit their electronic papers in PDF format. Over-length papers will be rejected without review. Submissions must be self-contained. ICAIF ’25 will not accept any supplementary materials/appendices.

Additional information:
To ensure papers receive sufficient quantity and quality of reviews, all authors of all submissions agree to undertake a light reviewing load if requested. We reserve the right to desk reject submissions from qualified authors who do not participate in the reviews.

The author list cannot be modified after initial submission on CMT. Be sure to correctly include all authors, in the correct order, when submitting a paper.

Reviews are double blind. Submitted papers should not reveal the authors in any way. When citing your own work, use the third person, e.g. “Byrd et al. [cite] found that…” rather than “In our previous work [cite], we found that…”
Authors should register an ORCID if they do not have one. This is required by ACM for all authors of accepted papers when preparing camera ready publication.

Papers may be accepted for oral or poster presentation. All accepted papers will appear in the ACM conference proceedings.

Templates:

Papers must use the latest ACM article template from https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template
Direct link to latest LaTeX template: https://portalparts.acm.org/hippo/latex_templates/acmart-primary.zip
The LaTeX template is also available on Overleaf: https://www.overleaf.com/gallery/tagged/acm-official
ACM provides both LaTeX and Word templates. Authors are recommended to use LaTeX if possible. LaTeX submissions must use the ACM template’s sigconf two-column format.

Paper Review

ICAIF ’25 will follow a double-blind review process (authors’ identities will not be known to the reviewers, and the reviewers’ identities will not be known to the authors). Accordingly, submitted papers should not reveal the identity of the authors, either by citation or other obvious mention of previous work. Self-citation is permitted in the third person, e.g. “Balch et al. [cite] identified…”, but not “In our prior work [cite], we identified…” There will be no rebuttal period.

Submission Policies

No extensions will be granted for submission past the deadline of July 18, 2025 23:59 AOE.
Each individual author is limited to no more than twelve (12) submissions to ICAIF. The list of authors provided at submission time is final. Authors may not be added to, or removed from, papers following submission. Authors are also expected to participate as reviewers if asked.

For full paper submissions, ICAIF is a peer-reviewed archival venue. ICAIF will not accept any paper that, at the time of submission, is under review for, already published in, or already accepted for publication in, a journal or other archival publication. Questions about submission eligibility should be referred to the Program Chairs in advance of the submission deadline.

Additionally, authors should not submit their papers to other archival venues during the ICAIF review period. Multiple submissions are grounds for immediate rejection of the submitted paper and referral for ethical review.

Permissible pre-publication: Submitted papers may have appeared previously as technical reports or in other non-archival venues. Specific examples of permissible venues include arXiv or the workshops at AAAI, KDD, ICML, or NeurIPS. In order to preserve anonymity for review, however, authors must not cite such papers. Questions concerning acceptable pre-publication venues should be directed to the Program Chairs.

All submissions will be treated with strict confidentiality until published.

Get in Touch

General chair: generalchair@icaif25.org
Program chairs: programchair@icaif25.org
Contact us us about sponsorship opportunities: sponsorship@icaif25.org