During the last decade, financial communication texts – including corporate compulsory and voluntary disclosures, analysts’ recommendations, rating announcements, central banks’ reports and speeches, financial news stories and other media (e.g. blogs, forums) –  have been increasingly investigated from different perspectives.

Asian Finance Association (AsianFA) cordially invites submission of research papers in all areas in finance to the Association's 2017 annual conference. Asia Business Daily and KAIST College of Business will host the conference. The AsianFA annual conference provides an open platform for finance scholars and practitioners worldwide to meet and share their recent research and exchange ideas and information on new developments in finance research. We look forward to a high-quality conference. The majority of the sessions will include papers selected through open competition. The papers will be double blind-reviewed by a committee of established researchers. The conference will also organize the doctoral student consortium.

After the successful Entfin Conference in Lyon (2016), the Vlerick Business School, the University of Antwerp and Ghent University will organize the second conference on Entrepreneurial Finance in the historical city of Ghent, Belgium on July 6-7, 2017.

Universitat Pompeu Fabra is proud to host the 25^th Finance Forum, the Annual Meeting of the Spanish Finance Association (AEFIN).  The Finance Forum will take place in Barcelona on July 6-7, 2017.

This international conference will provide a platform for policy makers, regulators, industry executives, and researchers from academia and industry to enhance their risk management techniques, explore the latest investment strategies and manage the fundamental regulatory changes in the financial sector. The conference begins with a half-day policy forum where the focus of talks will be on policy initiatives, regulatory changes and industry developments. The second half of the day of the conference is a scientific program where researchers will present on recent theoretical developments, analytical techniques and empirical findings in the field of risk management. A pre-conference workshop on Credit Portfolio Management is organized in collaboration with the International Association of Credit Portfolio Managers.

We are very pleased to invite you to the IFABS Asia 2017 Ningbo Conference, which is jointly organised by the University of Nottingham Ningbo and the New York University Shanghai in the vibrant city of Ningbo, China on August 31 to September 2, 2017.