Co-Sponsored by the University of Delaware and The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Dates: April 10 and 11, 2025, with an evening poster session and reception on April 9

Location: Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 10 NIndependence Mall W, Philadelphia, PA 19106

The Fintech and Financial Institutions Conference is a forum for presenting and discussing current research on the inter-linkages of the fintech sector and the broader financial system. The Conference will focus on understanding economic consequences and impacts in both directions, as well as regulatory implications of the fintech sector. The Conference will also focus on technology and engineering developments that are key to the way fintech works within the financial system. The Conference aims to include high-quality academic papers from multiple fields, including finance, economics, computer engineering, management information systems, and others. The Conference aims to foster the dialogue between the Fin and Tech sides of fintech.

We aim for a conference that unites the research conversation across the Fin and Tech Tracks, with authors, discussants, and session chairs contributing to an interdisciplinary conversation.  In particular, the event will intermingle sessions for two “tracks” of the conference, with approximately equal agenda time for each.

We will host two keynote speakers, to give full emphasis to the intersecting issues relevant to both tracks.

2025 KEYNOTE SPEAKER - Stefan Nagel

We are pleased to announce that one of our keynote speakers will be Stefan Nagel, Fama Family Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, University of Chicago.

Professor Nagel research focuses on asset pricing, investor behavior, and the formation of investor expectations. His most recent work explores the role of personal experiences in shaping expectations about the macroeconomy and financial market returns, models of investor learning about long-run growth with decaying memory, and the application of machine learning techniques to understand the risk and return of investment strategies in the stock market. Nagel has won various awards for his research, among them the Smith-Breeden Prize of the American Finance Association for the best paper in the Journal of Finance in 2004 and the Fama/DFA prize for the best asset pricing paper in the Journal of Financial Economics in 2006 and 2020 (first prize) and 2010 (second prize).

2025 KEYNOTE SPEAKER - RAMAYYA KRISHNAN

We are pleased to announce that one of our keynote speakers will be Ramayya Krishnan, dean of Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy and William W, and Ruth F. Cooper professor of management science and information systems.

Krishnan has founded four externally funded research centers, raising close to $100M dollars over the course of the last decade. He directs the Block Center for Technology and Society and advises policy makers, business leaders and international organizations such as the Asian Development Bank on Technology and Policy. He is an American Association for the Advancement of Science - AAAS Fellow (section T), an INFORMS Fellow, an elected member of the National Academy of Public Administration and a commissioner of the Geotech Center of the Atlantic Council. Krishnan also has extensive experience and expertise in public policy.