A dedicated conference track on Financial Technology (FinTech) will be organized from December 14-17, 2025 at the world's leading scientific conference in the field of information systems and business information systems. The ICIS conference is listed with “A” in the current publication media ranking of the VHB and will take place in Nashville (TN) in 2025. Submissions are possible until the beginning of May (deadline in 2024 was May 1) via the conference website https://icis2025.aisconferences.org/. The responsible track chairs in 2025 are Professors De Liu (University of Minnesota), Ke-Wei Huang (Singapore National University) and Rainer Alt (University of Leipzig). Please consider submitting to this track and see the call for papers below:

"Although the financial industry has been a pioneer in adopting information technology (IT) and many examples for core banking systems, electronic security exchanges and networks for transferring money exist, industry structures remained stable for many decades. The rise of innovative financial technology applications and business models under the umbrella term “FinTech” may be conceived as a wake-up call for many incumbents with numerous startup businesses having emerged since 2010. Meanwhile, FinTech is an established sector, which has created new forms of payment, financing, lending, and insuring. Many of these solutions have arrived in practice and reached the plateau of productivity. They feature platform-based business models as well as customer-oriented and crowd-based processes, which have reduced inefficiencies and have brought digital transformation to the finance industry. Ongoing technological progress, such as artificial intelligence, distributed ledger technologies, metaverse, or quantum computing is driving further solutions. Among the emerging concepts are open banking, ubiquitous banking, or embedded finance. This track embraces these developments and offers a platform exploring cutting-edge research in the dynamic field of FinTech. It is broadly defined to encompass innovations in banking, insurance (InsurTech), regulation (RegTech), and emerging sectors like property management (PropTech).

The track chairs welcome high-quality and original submissions utilizing diverse methodologies, including theory development, qualitative studies (e.g., case studies), economics research (e.g., econometric analyses or analytical modeling), experiments, surveys, simulations, and design science research. Regardless of the approach, submitted papers must make novel contributions to FinTech literature and practice, while establishing meaningful connections to information systems literature streams. The topics of the track include but are not limited to the following:

• Interaction and integration between FinTech and traditional financial institutions (e.g. traditional banks, central banks, and central bank digital currencies)
• Study of segments of FinTech (InsurTech, PropTech, RegTech, Green FinTech and sustainable finance)
• Research on innovation processes in FinTech and analysis of (new) business models (e.g., crowd-based, digital platforms, decentralized business models)
• Upcoming concepts in Fintech (e.g., embedded, open and ubiquitous finance and banking)
• Use of centralized (e.g., core banking/insurance systems) and decentralized (e.g., blockchain and distributed ledger technology) in finance
• Research on cryptocurrencies, crypto exchanges, and digital assets (e.g., tokenization, Initial Coin and Securitized Token Offerings (ICO/STO))
• Integration in the financial industry (e.g., integration with the real economy, data/process standards and application programming interfaces)
• Adoption and business value of FinTech models and applications (e.g., financial inclusion and literacy, regulation and governance, diffusion and network effects)
• Emerging FinTech topics and applications (e.g., quantum computing, metaverse, Internet of Things, AI and Generative AI)
• Studies of innovative applications in in FinTech (e.g., robo-advising, algorithmic trading, portfolio management, market making, and social trading)
• Innovative payment models and systems (e.g., payment networks, micropayments, mobile payments)"