IJCAI-2020 Call for Papers: AI in FinTech

FinTech (or Fintech), or financial technology, is at the epicentre of synergizing, innovating and transforming financial services, economy, technology, media, and telecommunication. FinTech nurtures new financial and economic mechanisms, models, products, services, and opportunities. FinTech also strengthens existing system efficiency, cost-effectiveness, customer experience, risk mitigation, regulation, and security.

AI is the keystone enabler of FinTech. AI essentially and comprehensively transforms the way and effect financial businesses operate, transact, interact and collaborate with their consumers, markets, and regulators. AI innovates new and intelligent FinTech for more efficient, convenient, personalized, explainable, secure and proactive financial products and services. To achieve these, on one hand, AI technologies including knowledge representation, machine learning, pattern recognition, signal processing, data analytics, computer vision, natural language processing, biometrics, and computational intelligence evolve to cultivate FinTech. On the other, FinTech is driving new AI research and innovation.


Topics
This Special Track on AI in FinTech seeks to stimulate the discussion, research and applications on AI for FinTech. We solicit quality papers on the state-of-the-art theoretical research, visionary opinion, and practical advancements of AI in FinTech. Topics include but not limited to:

- Analyzing complex couplings, dependencies, interactions, relations and networking in finance
- Analyzing regional and global financial activities, behaviors, events and their impact and risk
- Analyzing and representation of financial businesses, networks, systems and problems
- Jointly modelling natural, online, social, economic, cultural and political factors in finance
- Analyzing and learning multisource, multimodal and heterogeneous financial events and impact
- Analyzing and modeling high-dimensional, sequential and evolving financial events and impact
- Constructing benchmarkable financial knowledge graph and repositories
- AI for faster, cheaper and smarter design, simulation and evaluation of new financial mechanisms, models, products and services
- Real-time intelligent financial analysis and processing for cloud, online and mobile services
- AI-enabled regtech for digital authentication and identification and intelligent regulation
- AI for active, real-time, tailored and automated regulation of new, digital and mobile financial services
- AI to analyze, predict and intervene new cybersecurity, fraud and risks in banking, insurance and finance
- Cross-market, product, indicator, platform and network modelling, hologram and risk analysis
- Analyzing financial crisis, exception, emergence, uncertainty and ill- to un-structured systemic risk
- Data-driven theories and tools for digital assets and their valuation, risk analysis and management
- New blockchain theories and tools for cryptocurrency, digital asset pricing, trading, mechanism design, smart contract, open banking and investment
- Intelligent innovations in credit loans, SMEs and individual financing, P2P lending, crowdfunding, roboadvising, digital payment, dynamic credit rating, and asset pricing
- Intelligent algorithms, mechanisms, interfaces and systems for digital, mobile, virtual and Internet-based banking, financing, capital markets, regtech, insurtech, and paytech
- AI for assuring trust, privacy, security, compliance, explainability and ethics in FinTech
- Better practice and lessons of AI-enabled FinTech into implementation and productization
- Other important aspects, issues and progress associated with AI in FinTech


Important Dates
Submission site opening: January 7, 2020
Abstract submission deadline: January 15, 2020 (11:59PM UTC-12)
Paper submission deadline: January 21, 2020 (11:59PM UTC-12)
Summary reject notification: February 21, 2020
Author response period: March 21-25, 2020
Paper notification: April 19, 2020

Submission site: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IJCAI2020

Formatting guidelines, LaTeX styles, and Word template: https://www.ijcai.org/authors_kit

Submission Process
The paper title, author names, contact details, and a brief abstract must be submitted electronically through the IJCAI-PRICAI 2020 paper submission site (link above) by the abstract submission deadline. Full papers must be submitted through the same site by the paper submission deadline. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference to present the work.


Keywords
When submitting abstracts, authors will be required to choose up to three content area keywords that belong to this Special Track. General categories should be used only if specific categories do not apply or do not accurately reflect the main contributions. The full list of keywords will be available on the submission site.


Paper Length and Format
Papers submitted to the Special Track must be formatted according to IJCAI-PRICAI 2020 guidelines (link above) and must be no longer than seven pages in total: six pages for the body of the paper (including all figures), plus up to one additional page with references that do not fit within the six body pages. (For accepted papers, up to two additional pages may be purchased at an additional cost per page, but note that at the time of submissions, papers are required to adhere to the 6+1 format above.) Authors are required to submit their electronic papers in PDF format. Over-length papers will be rejected without review. Submissions must be self-contained. IJCAI-PRICAI 2020 will not accept any supplementary materials other than those specified in the paragraph “Resubmissions of Substantially Improved Recent Submissions," below.