Introducing: The Journal of Financial Technology

I am excited to be part of the founding editorial board of a new academic journal: The Journal of Financial Technology.

The JFT is a free and open-access academic journal founded to provide a quality venue to promote and develop fintech as an academic field. It will bring together mathematics, statistics, computer science, finance, and law. Publication is open-access, and authors retain copyright.

The JFT welcomes submissions for Volume I, Issue 1! Submission instructions are here.

Financial technology is reshaping our financial system in important ways, bringing both benefits and risks. Fintech sits at the intersection of many academic disciplines, requiring contributions from each of the fields it brings together. The JFT now offers a dedicated forum to facilitate this multidisciplinary discussion.

I am thrilled to work with a stellar Editorial Board, including leading computer scientists, mathematicians, cryptographers, and finance scholars from around the world.

They are:

Editor-in-chief

• Murdoch Gabbay, Heriot-Watt University, UK (formal methods)

Editors

• Tomaso Aste, University College London, UK
  risk, complex systems, blockchain
• Devraj Basu, Strathclyde University, UK
  finance, data analytics
• Bill Buchanan, Napier University, UK
  cyber security, cryptography, distributed computing and networks, trust
• Ittay Eyal, Technion, Israel
  blockchain, trusted execution
• Katya Malinova, University of Toronto, Canada
  financial economics, regulation, market design
• Rosario Mantegna, Palermo University, Italy
  econophysics, analysis, modeling
• Fabio Massacci, University of Trento, Italy
  cyber security, security methodologies
• Gareth Peters, Heriot-Watt University, UK
  finance, quantitative risk, risk management, algorithmic trading, regulation, blockchain
• Ilya Sergey, University College London, UK
  programming language theory, verification, smart contracts, concurrency
• Daniele Venturi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
  theoretical cryptography, multiparty computation, cloud security, zero knowledge
• Philip Wadler, University of Edinburgh, UK
  programming languages, formal methods, functional programming, blockchain, smart contracts
• Angela Walch, St. Mary’s University School of Law, USA
  governance and regulation
• Julian Williams, Durham University Business School, UK
  markets, liquidity, algorithmic trading, operational security

Advising editors

• Campbell Harvey, Duke University, US
• Maureen O’Hara, Cornell University, US
• David Pym, UCL and the Alan Turing Institute, UK

I expect great things from The JFT and look forward to seeing you there!