Over the weekend, the Fintech Ventures team attended Georgia State University’s 2nd Annual Fintech Research Conference.
We were honored to have sponsored 2 prizes for Best Paper and Best Discussant, which were awarded as follows:
The Fintech Ventures Best Paper and Discussant Award:
When Fintech Meets Privacy: The Consequence of Private Information Misuse in Debt Collection
Authors: Li Liao (Tsinghua University), Zhengwei Wang (Tsinghua University), Hongjun Yan (DePaul University), Congyi Zhou (Tsinghua University)
The FinTech Ventures Best Discussant Award:
Crowdsourcing Financial Information to Change Spending Behavior
Discussant: Byoung-Hyoun Hwang (Cornell University)
Authors: Francesco D’Acunto (Boston College), Alberto Rossi (Georgetown University), Michael Weber (University of Chicago)
Conference Overview:
The Conference’s selection process was highly competitive - only 6% of all paper submissions were accepted for presentation. Paper submissions were made on a wide variety of topics in fintech, with no single category comprising more than 15% of total submissions: