About FFC
Since its founding in 2025, the Frontiers in Finance Conference (FFC) has been committed to building a high-end academic platform for in-depth dialogues and collaborative innovation among industry, academia, and research stakeholders across the global financial sector. Adhering to the principles of high-standard, open, professional and standardized organization, the conference is rooted in the core discipline of finance, focusing on cutting-edge research in finance and its interdisciplinary fields, addressing major Chinese issues with frontier academic significance, and exploring future scientific and technological developments that may reshape the modes of knowledge production, research methodologies and disciplinary boundaries of finance.
By bringing together top scholars and industry elites from around the world, the conference facilitates the sharing of frontier ideas and the pooling of global wisdom. It continuously advances the interdisciplinary integration and theoretical innovation between finance and cutting-edge technologies, actively explores new trends, mechanisms and solutions for the development of financial practice, steadily leads the global frontier of financial research, and fosters the deep integration and high-quality development of financial theory and practice.
The 2nd Frontiers in Finance Conference (FFC 2026) will be held from June 30 – July 2, 2026, at International Institute of Finance, USTC. This conference is jointly organized by International Institute of Finance, Faculty of Business for Science and Technology, and School of Management, USTC.
Up to twelve papers will be selected for presentation at the conference. Academic awards will be presented to recognize outstanding academic achievements. Warmly welcome scholars from home and abroad to submit papers actively.
Submission Guidelines
Welcome working papers in all areas of finance, in either Chinese or English.
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Submission Period
March 15 – May 7, 2026
Submission opens on March 15, 2026. The deadline is May 7, 2026.
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Acceptance Notification
By May 31, 2026
Authors of accepted papers will be notified by May 31, 2026.
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Conference Dates
June 30 – July 2, 2026
The 2nd Frontiers in Finance Conference (FFC 2026) will be held from June 30 to July 2, 2026.
- Submission Format: A full paper in PDF format is required electronically.
- How to Submit: Please email your paper to ffcconf@ustc.edu.cn.
- Submission Fee: No submission fee is required.
- Conference Website: https://ffcconf.org
Contact
For inquiries, please contact the conference secretariat at ffcconf@ustc.edu.cn.