Research Topics in the FinTech Revolution

1. Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies, and the Political, Social, and Economic Impact

-- Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies

• Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies
• The Future of Bitcoin Exchanges
• Bitcoin Payment Protocol
• The Regulation and Risks of Cryptocurrency
• Alternate Cryptocurrencies - Bitcoin Alternatives
• Bitcoin Security Against Theft
• User-friendly Bitcoin Key Management
• Micro Payments
  
• Crowdfunding
• Bitcoin Transaction Visualizations
• Ethereum
• Tokenization
• Initial Coin Offering (ICO) and Security Token Offerings (STOs)

-- The Political, Social, and Economic Impact

• Bitcoin’s Social Impact: From Global to Local 
• Cryptography for financial markets
• Digital asset pricing, trading, mechanism design, and smart contracts
• Dynamic credit rating and asset pricing
• Entrepreneurial Fintech models
• Financial risk indicator, platform and network modelling
• Modelling natural, online, social, economic, cultural, and political factors in finance
• Modelling financial scenarios, emergence, uncertainty, and ill- to un-structured systemic risk
• Innovation in credit loans and risk genes
• Innovations in P2P lending and crowd-funding
• Machine Learning and financial datasets
• Models for robo-advising
• Novel digital payment platforms
• Open banking and its implications
• Real time financial valuations
• Social implications of Fintech
• Textual analysis of financial data
• Novel theories and tools for digital assets and their valuation, risk analysis, and management
• Blockchain and tools for cryptocurrency
• Visualization of big data financial systems
• Complex financial technology and socio-economic problems and networks
• Modelling complex relations, dependencies, interactions, and networking in finance
• Modelling regional and global financial activities, behaviours, events, and their impact and risk
• Cross-market, digital financial products

2. Blockchain Technology and The Political, Social, and Economic Impact

 -- Blockchain Technology

• Public, Consortium, and Private Blockchains
• Blockchain-based Systems
• Fintech and Blockchain
• Decentralization as a New Model of Trust
• The Future of Financial Services
• The Future of Insurance and Blockchain
• Excess Capacity Management Applications and the Blockchain
• Supply Chain Management and Blockchain
• Blockchain Smart Contracts for Land Registry
• Digital Currencies and Blockchain
• Sidechains
• Hyperledger
• Public and Private Blockchain

--  The Political, Social, and Economic Impact

• The Blockchain: The Coming Revolution in Social Organization
• Regulations in Blockchain
• Blockchain and Standards

3. Big Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and FinTech, Cross-Process

 -- Big Data

• Open Data
• Data Security 2.0: Differential Privacy and Homomorphic Encryption
• Latest Research in Big Data in Finance 
• Optimization of Real-time Data Analytics 
• Data Analytics and Financial Econometrics 
• Financial Sentiment and News Analysis 
• Behavioral Data Finance 
• Data Security and Legal Protection 
• Integrating Technology and the Access to Massive Data Sources 
• High-frequency Trading and Algorithmic Execution
• Big Data Techniques for Efficient Volatility Management 
• Big Data in Fixed Income Pricing
• Big Data in FinTech: Banking API (Application Programming Interface), Market Sentiment Data for Investments, Social Media In Credit Scoring
• Big Data and Credit Risk
• Big Data Analytics
  
• Data Analytics and Accounting
• Predictive Modeling
• Policy-making Mechanisms and Modelling Approaches 

-- Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• AI in Finance
• AI-powered expense tracking and budgeting app
• AI in Accounting
• AI in Production: High-frequency Trading, Fraud Detection and Credit Scoring
• Predictive Analytics in Finance and Accounting - Current Applications and Trends
• Open-Source AI Platforms 
• AI Regulations: Bias Prevention, Auditable and Explainable of Machine Learning Models 

4. FinTech: Banking, Finance, Accounting, Insurance, and Lending

-- Banking

• Financial Inclusion and Financial Exclusion
• FinTech and Financial Inclusion
• Economic Inclusion and Financial Health
• Agriculture Fintech
• Digital Finance and Commerce
  
• Mobile Banking and Payments
• Future Money
• Banking Technology
• FinTech and Banking Reforms
• Customer’s Banking Experience
• FinTech - opportunity, threat or hype?
• Regulations in FinTech
• Legal and Regulatory
  
• FinTech Regulatory Sandbox
• Harnessing Fintech in Retail Banking 

-- Finance and Accounting

• Quantum finance and economics
• Robotics In finance And accounting
• Robotic process automation (RPA) in finance
• Crowdfunding
• Micro-loans
  
• Credit facilities

-- Insurance

• Digital Transformation in Insurance
• InsurTech
  
• P2P Insurance
  
• Blockchain and Insurance

-- Lending

• The Future of Lending
• Equity Crowdfunding and Peer-to-Peer Lending
• Alternative Lending
• Marketplace Lending & Alternative Financing

5. Cybersecurity, Infrastructure and Platform

 -- Cybersecurity

• KSI (Keyless Signature Infrastructure) Blockchain Technology
• Public Distributed Ledger
  
• Distributed Ledger Technology
• Cryptocurrency Trading Platform
• Equity Crowdfunding Platform
• Cybersecurity of Financial Technologies
• Mobile Wallet Security
• Man-in-the-middle Attack
• Electronic Money (or e-Money)
• Digital Currency
• The Future of Money
• The Future of Fintech in Capital Markets 

-- Infrastructure and Platform

• Digital Trust
• Regulatory Sandbox
• AI and the Interconnectedness of Everything
• Secure and Trusted Cloud Services
• Applications of Quantum Computing in Finance

6. Payments, Remittance, and Wealth Management

 -- Payments

• Emerging Payments
• Digital Wallets
• Mobile Wallets
• Peer-to-Peer Payments

-- Remittance

• Remittance Technology
• Mobile Remittance Technology   

7. The Economy and the Stock Market, Investments, and Wealth Management

 -- The Economy and The Stock Market

• Gross Domestic Product (GDP) 
• Derivative
• Bond 
• Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) 

-- Investments

• Sensitivity Analysis 
• Equity 
• Earnings Per Share (EPS) 
• Debt/Equity Ratio 
• Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) 
• Watchlist 
• 'Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) 
• Return On Equity (ROE) 
• Working Capital 
• Risk Tolerance 
• Current Ratio 
• Return on Investment (ROI) 
• Price-Earnings Ratio (P/E Ratio) 
• Cyber Monday 
• Initial Coin Offering (ICO) 
• Debt/Equity Ratio 
• Black Friday 
• Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) 
• Capitulation 
• Tariff
• Donchian Channels 
• Consumer Price Index (CPI) 
• Cost of Debt 
• Financial Plan 
• Trustee 
• Bubble 
• Money Manager
• Whole Life Insurance 
• Stop Order 
• Market Index 
• Indicator 
• Coverage Ratio 
• Candlestick 
• Systematic Risk 
• Moving Average (MA) 
• Stock Option 
• Portfolio and Portfolio Manager
• Business Cycle 
• Time Value of Money (TVM) 
• Intrinsic Value 
• Economies of Scale 
• January Effect 
• Free Cash Flow 
• Quick Ratio 
• Enterprise Value (EV) 
• Dividend 
• Inventory Turnover 
• Christmas Tree 
• Santa Claus Rally 
• Market Capitalization 
• Bear Market and Bull Market
• Correction
• Beta 
• Profit Margin 
• Law of Supply and Demand: Elasticity vs. Inelasticity of Demand, How Does Price Elasticity Affect Supply, Equilibrium Price, Equilibrium Quantity

-- Wealth Management

 Family Office & Private Wealth Management

• Digital Integration in Wealth Management