Location: Frankfurt, Germany
Date: 29-30 January 2015

The recent success of P2P finance has raised new research questions on the opportunities and risks of the current digital transformation of financial markets. This workshop brings together scholars, regulators and practitioners interested in the P2P technology aiming at bridging the gap between academics, technologists, policy makers, regulators and FinTech addressing technical and research questions of practical importance on Cryptocurrencies, Crowdfunding, Digital Money Transfer, Mobile Banking and Mobile Payments, Smart Contracts and Distributed Autonomous Corporations.

Topics include (but are not limited to) empirical and theoretical studies of:

• Cryptographic protocols and peer-to-peer networks
• Threats / attacks / defences / security engineering
• Fraud detection and financial crime prevention
• Legal aspects and regulation
• Financial inclusion and market stability
• Socio-economic and monetary aspects
• Technology adoption and market dynamics
• New business models and novel applications

 
Confirmed speakers:

• David Andolfatto, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
• Constance Choi, Seven Advisory & Digital Asset Transfer Authority
• Stefan Dziembowski, University of Warsaw
• Oliver Gajda, European Crowdfunding Network
• Campbell Harvey, Fuqua School of Business of Duke University
• Richard D. Porter, Cooksville Digital Coin Lab

 
The workshop is organized by the Research Center SAFE, Deutsche Bundesbank, and University College London and is kindly supported by ECURΞX Research.

It will be devoted to research topics from the scientific community as well as evidences from industry and policy-making case studies. The workshop will also feature a panel discussion for participants from academia, industry and financial regulatory bodies to share their views on the major threats and opportunities related to the emerging disruptive forms of new digital finance. 
 
Authors wishing to contribute a paper to the conference should do it via the EasyChair submission system following this link. Full papers or extended abstracts must be submitted in PDF format. The deadline for submission is November 15, 2014. Any mention of the author's names or affiliations should be removed from the submitted paper. A selection of accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, published by Springer. Authors who seek to submit their work to other outlets may opt out of the proceedings by submitting an extended abstract only. Committee decisions on submitted papers will be communicated by December 15, 2014. Further information can be found on the event web page. Should you have any questions, please contact the organizers at p2pfisy@ecurex.com.