Overview

The FinTeAchIn 2025 Workshop is to gather information on the role of education in emerging financial technologies and innovation to understand better ongoing and potentially disruptive changes, along with the challenges that must be addressed to realize the full range of anticipated and potential benefits—such as greater financial inclusion, faster and more secure transactions, and reduced operational costs—while mitigating any foreseen risk and addressing concerns about security, privacy, and regulation.

The workshop aims to foster a multidisciplinary environment where educators, researchers, and industry practitioners can discuss open challenges, examine solutions, and contribute actionable insights. Topics of interest include responsible FinTech innovation, individual and organizational adoption, AI in FinTech, curriculum development, multi-generational literacy, and strategies for enhancing public understanding and trust. We are particularly interested in how education can drive safe and responsible adoption of FinTech, improve digital competencies, and bridge generational and socio-economic gaps in financial literacy.

Program Chairs

Innovation Education Facilitator

Program Committee (confirmed)

Call for Papers

Emerging financial technologies and business models, commonly referred to as 'FinTech,' are driving structural changes and creating opportunities across the expanding landscape of traditional centralized finance (CeFi), decentralized finance (DeFi), regenerative finance (ReFi), collaborative finance (CoFi), and open financial services. FinTech encompasses a wide range of interdisciplinary topics, including cryptocurrencies and digital assets (using blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLTs), decentralized exchanges (DEXs), decentralized oracles, tokenization, payment systems, incentives and mechanism design, AI applications in finance, peer-to-peer lending, Robo Advisers, alternative credit rating services and more.

The FinTeAchIn workshop aims to explore the role of education in FinTech and Innovation to understand ongoing and potentially disruptive changes better, along with the challenges that must be addressed to realize the full range of anticipated and potential benefits—such as greater financial inclusion, faster and more secure transactions, and reduced operational costs. By engaging with these topics, we aim to create a meaningful learning experience for workshop participants, identify research and teaching efforts that contribute to the development, understanding, and responsible adoption of FinTech, and develop actionable insights that can help mitigate risks within the financial ecosystem. Academic research plays a crucial role in identifying risks early and addressing concerns about security, privacy, and regulation, but its impact is often limited because many key stakeholders do not engage directly with academic publications. Through this workshop, we seek to bridge this gap, making essential insights more accessible and actionable for practitioners, policymakers, and educators. We expect to attract actors involved at any stage of FinTech innovation and adoption to create a multi-disciplinary space for discussing open problems, deliberating on potential solutions, and helping guide future developments in the financial industry.

Interacting effectively with FinTech requires strong digital competencies, while an innovation mindset can enhance the ability to leverage emerging technologies within this field. To keep pace with emerging technologies, traditional undergraduate and graduate education programs and initiatives have started to evolve, incorporating interdisciplinary approaches that blend insights from computer science, finance, law, and sociology. This broadened perspective prepares students, researchers, and other partakers to navigate the complexities of FinTech. Continuous and executive education programs are also essential, playing a key role in building human capital and fostering innovation across the private (financial institutions and startups) and public (central banks and regulatory bodies) sectors. These programs equip individuals with the skills and knowledge needed to stay current with FinTech advancements, readying them for the challenges and opportunities in a rapidly evolving landscape. Furthermore, independent educators and content creators are increasingly targeting the general public and specific generations to make FinTech more accessible and safer. Educators use resources like podcasts, games, and age-specific books to enhance FinTech literacy across demographics, while approaches like reverse socialization, where younger generations teach older ones, may help bridge generational gaps in understanding. However, the overall impact of these approaches to enhance public understanding and trust remains to be researched.

Important Dates

Topics

We are interested in topics including (but not limited to):

• 1. Responsible Innovation in FinTech
  • Frameworks for responsible and ethical innovation, including frugal innovations and financial inclusion
  • Strategies for balancing innovation with regulatory compliance
  • Secure handling of sensitive information by third-party providers
• 2. FinTech Adoption
  • Determinants of adopting research findings for securing transactions and systems
  • Comparative studies on adoption patterns across organizational systems or user communities
  • Barriers and enablers in emerging economies and underserved communities
• 3. Applied real-world deployments
  • Analysis of successful and unsuccessful FinTech implementations, including collaborative finance (CoFi) initiatives
  • Insights from the FinTech ecosystem on the challenges of transforming research into practical solutions
• 4. Role of AI in FinTech
  • AI applications in financial education, risk management, transparency, and trust
  • Ethical challenges in deploying AI-driven financial tools
  • Integrating AI into FinTech curricula to foster innovation
• 5. Education and Curriculum Development
  • Designing interdisciplinary FinTech programs for undergraduate and graduate students
  • Effective methodologies for teaching FinTech concepts
  • Executive education and training innovations for upskilling and reskilling the workforce
  • Designing interdisciplinary FinTech programs and assessing their impact
  • Innovations in education, including blockchain, AI, and VR-based tools or platforms to teach about commerce security
  • Academic-industry collaborations and strategies for accessible and impactful FinTech education
• 6. Public Understanding and Trust in FinTech
  • Tokenomics and monetary policy communication in blockchain-based economies
  • Multi-generational approaches to FinTech education, including reverse socialization
  • Impact of content creators, games, and alternative media on FinTech literacy
  • Enhancing transparency and accountability to build public trust in FinTech systems
  • Strategies to enhance public literacy, counter misinformation, and build trust in FinTech systems
• 7. Emerging Trends and Challenges
  • FinTech risk and compliance management frameworks
  • Sustainable and energy-efficient practices in FinTech systems
  • Social and behavioural trends shaping the adoption and evolution of FinTech
  • Trends in financial inclusion, interoperability, and decentralized identity frameworks

We seek contributions that explore effective ways to educate the public and teams within the financial industry on the opportunities and risks of FinTech, foster transparency, and build trust in emerging financial technologies.

Submissions Instructions

Submissions should follow the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science format. The following types of submissions are possible:

• Full papers: completed research, limit of 15 pages, *including* references and appendices.
• Short papers: work in progress, research or practice papers, limit of 8 pages, *including* references and appendices; the title of such submissions must be preceded with the label "Short paper".
• Systematization of Knowledge papers: limit of 20 pages, *excluding* references and well-marked appendices; the title of such submissions must be preceded with the label "SoK".

Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

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