2021 IEEE SERVICES - 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Future of Financial Services/SERVICES (FFS)

3rd IEEE International Symposium on the Future of Financial Services

FFS - Technical Program


The financial services industry is a forward-looking industry that has always been in the lookout to leverage new technologies to increase profits. Broadly, this industry covers three vertical sectors, Financial Markets, Banking, and Insurance. Digitalization is a double edge sword that is sweeping the pillars of financial institutions creating new players: FinTech, InsurTech, RegTech, and other industries offer financial services.

Five key external trends are shaping the financial services industry:

  • Clients demand personalized offerings
  • Regulators increase risk mitigation
  • Government pressures green finance targets
  • Open collaboration creates new business models
  • Data proliferation privacy and security concerns

The 2021 IEEE International Symposium on the Future of Financial Services (FFS) aims to bring academia and industry subject matter experts together to identify novel intelligent and responsible financial services in the digital era. It will focus on facilitating exchange of the great minds to better understand existing challenges in the digital industry and potential R&D advances that can bring transformative changes and improvements to finance in coming years, such as:

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Besides the special research paper track on FFS (jointly organized with IEEE SCC 2021), the FFS Symposium will feature distinguished speakers from industry and academia, research panels, technical presentations and much more; stay tuned for the agenda. It will be held as a cross-conference symposium at IEEE SERVICES 2021. We extend an invitation to all to participate and make it a success.

Technical Program

Please see the Technical Program for the 2021 Future of Financial Services Symposium.

Organization

Honorary Chair:
Kumar Bhaskaran, IBM Research, TJ Watson Research Center

General Chair:
Elena Yndurain, IE Business School

Program Chairs:
Prasenjit Dey, IBM Research, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Jorge Sanz, IBM Research
Yanmei Zhang, Central University of Finance & Economics, Beijing

Advisory Committee
Nikhil Aggarwal, Promontory
Nitin Gaur, IBM Research, TJ Watson Research Center
Natalie Gil, Auna
Aparna Gupta, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Andreas Kind, Siemens
Marcelo Labre, Advanced Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2)
Ping Li, Beihang University
Mirjana Pejic-Bach, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Ecinomics & Business
Locknie Hsu, Singapore Management University
K.P. (Suba) Subbalakshmi, Stevens Institute of Technology
Xiao-Ping Steven Zhang, Ryerson University