Fintech Ventures Sponsors Georgia State University’s Fintech Academic Conference Prizes
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: