Australasian Finance & Banking Conference

The 37^th Australasian Finance and Banking Conference (AFBC) is organised by the Institute of Global Finance, UNSW Business School. The Conference will be held on 11^th –13^th December 2024 (In person only).

The AFBC is the most significant and prestigious finance conference in the Asia-Pacific region. It brings together the world's foremost leaders of thought from the financial community, providing international academics and industry professionals with the opportunity to meet and share their research and interest in finance-related fields. The Conference Committee would like to invite all academics and practitioners to participate.

When and where

When: Wednesday 11^th to Friday 13^th December 2024. The PhD Forum will be held on Tuesday 10^th December 2024.
Where: UNSW Business School, Sydney Australia.

Keynote Speakers include

Itay Goldstein, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

As part of this conference, there will also be an

International Forum on CBDC's, Fintech, and Digital Finance,

Keynote speakers of this forum include

Agostino Capponi, Center for Digital Finance and Technologies, Columbia University.

Lin William Cong, Cornell University.

There will also be International Fora on the Opportunities and Risks of AI Technologies in Finance and Challenges and Opportunities Associated with Climate Finance.

PhD Forum

When: Tuesday, 10^th December 2024.

Itay Goldstein, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

The 37^th AFBC will include a PhD Forum for advanced Finance Doctoral Students who are currently working on their dissertation.

The one-day forum will offer accepted students the unique opportunity to present their dissertation proposals and have their work discussed by distinguished academics from top business schools in the US, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region.

Throughout the seminar, Phd candidates will receive valuable advice about career development from leading scholars and will discuss recent developments in finance literature with fellow students and faculty members.

Education Excellence Showcase

The Education Excellence showcase is designed to acknowledge world-class educators in cutting-edge teaching practices and to promote knowledge exchange to better nurture next generation leaders in finance.

Further details will be updated on this website.