We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the annual NBS Conference on AI for Finance, which will be held from 20 to 21 November 2026 at Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). The conference will be held jointly with the inaugural AI and Big Data in Finance Research (ABFR) Workshop on 21 November 2026. The two-day programme serves as a platform to unite leading scholars, industry practitioners and policymakers, facilitating discussions on cutting-edge developments in artificial intelligence and their transformative implications for financial markets, institutions, corporate decision-making, and financial regulation.
The conference will explore how AI is reshaping financial research, investment management, banking, corporate finance, and the broader financial ecosystem through keynote speeches, research presentations, poster sessions, and panel discussions.
Key Topics:
- Generative AI, Foundation Models, and Financial Decision-Making
- AI-Driven Asset Pricing, Portfolio Management, and Investment Strategies
- Machine Learning for Financial Forecasting and Market Prediction
- Alternative Data, Natural Language Processing, and Financial Analytics
- AI in Banking, Credit Risk Assessment, and Financial Intermediation
- AI, FinTech Innovation, and the Future of Financial Services
- Human-AI Collaboration in Financial Markets and Corporate Finance
- AI for Climate Finance, ESG Analysis, and Sustainable Investing
- AI Governance, Regulation, Ethics, and Responsible Innovation in Finance
We invite faculty members, PhD students, industry practitioners, and thought leaders from around the world to submit theoretical, empirical, experimental, and interdisciplinary research that advances our understanding of how artificial intelligence is transforming financial markets, financial institutions, corporate behaviour, and economic outcomes. Particular emphasis will be placed on frontier research that leverages novel AI methodologies, large-scale data, and interdisciplinary approaches to address important questions in finance.
- Submission Deadline: 20 September 2026, 11:59 PM (SGT)
- Notification of Paper Submission Outcome: 15 October 2026
Note: We will randomly choose a subset of submissions for AI or AI+Human reviews.
Guidelines
- Authors are invited to submit full papers in English.
- Authors must submit one (1) blinded manuscript in PDF format, no more than 20 MB (i.e., without author names or affiliations).
- Each individual can only present one paper at the Conference.
Conference Scientific Committee
Chairpersons:
- Xin (Simba) Chang (Nanyang Technological University)
- Lin William Cong (Nanyang Technological University)
Program Committee:
- Bo An (Nanyang Technological University)
- Svetlana Brzgalova (London Business School)
- Leland Bybee (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business)
- Zhimin Chen (Nanyang Technological University)
- Lauren Cohen (Harvard University)
- Winston Dou (University of Pennsylvania)
- Maryam Farboodi (Cornell University)
- Anastassia Fedyk (UC Berkeley)
- Byoung-Hyoun Hwang (Nanyang Technological University)
- Wei Jiang (Emory University)
- Roger Loh (Nanyang Technological University)
- Ye Luo (The University of Hong Kong Business School)
- Semyon Malamud (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
- Maximilian Muhn (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business)
- Markus Pelger (Stanford University)
- Gordon Phillips (Dartmouth College)
- Seth Pruitt (Arizona State University)
- Sadat Reza (Nanyang Technological University)
- Yinan Su (Johns Hopkins University)
- Huan Tang (University of Pennsylvania)
- Neng Wang (Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business)
- Dacheng Xiu (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business)
- Yucheng Yang (University of Zurich)
- Huai Zhang (Nanyang Technological University)
- Miao Ben Zhang (University of Southern California)
- Guofu Zhou (Washington University in St. Louis)
Conference Fees (to be paid during event registration):
- Conference presenters, NTU Academy of AI for Business and Social Research participants & PhD students: Free
- Non-students: SGD 200
For any enquiries related to the conference paper submission, please contact us at gifts@ntu.edu.sg.