• World Finance Conference
    Malta, July 28th - 31st, 2025
    Malta

World Finance Conference

  • Location

    Valetta - University of Malta

  • Date

    July 28th - 31st, 2025

About the Conference

Overview

Program Proceeding online

Keynote Speakers

Zacharias Sautner

University of Zurich & Swiss Finance Institute (Switzerland)

Zacharias is Professor of Sustainable Finance at University of Zurich and Senior Chair at the Swiss Finance Institute. He works on sustainable finance, ESG, climate finance, and biodiversity finance. Through his research on ESG topics, he provides insights on how finance can contribute to a more sustainable future. His research was downloaded more than 100,000 times on SSRN. 

His research was published in leading international journals, including the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Financial Economics.

He is an Associate Editor at the Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Banking & Finance, and Journal of Corporate Finance, a Regular Research Visitor at the ECB, and an advisor of asset management companies on sustainable finance issues. He is a Director of the European Finance Association.

At University of Zurich, Zacharias co-heads the Initiative in Sustainable Finance, one of the world's leading clusters for research on sustainable finance.

 


Mariassunta Giannetti

Katarina Martinson Professor of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden)

Mariassunta Giannetti is the Katarina Martinson Professor of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics, a Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) research fellow, and a research member and fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). Professor Giannetti?s research, published in leading journals in Finance, Economics, and Management, spans topics in corporate finance and financial intermediation, including production networks and trade credit, intermediaries? organizational structures and fire sales, banking and monetary policy, financial integration, and corporate governance and sustainability. Her research has earned recognition and awards, including an ECGI fellowship for scientific excellence in corporate governance research, the Assar Lindbeck Medal, the NYU Stern/ Imperial/ Fordham Rising Star in Finance award, the Sun Yefang Financial Innovation Award, the Review of Finance Pagano-Zechner Prize, the ECGI Standard Life Investments Finance Prize, the Journal of Financial Intermediation best paper award, and the ECB Lamfalussy Research Fellowship. Professor Giannetti has been serving as associate editor of many journals, including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, the Review of Finance, the Economic Journal, the Journal of Money Credit and Banking, the Journal of Corporate Finance, Financial Management, Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of Financial Services Research, and the Journal of Financial Stability, and as a director of the European Finance Association, the Financial Intermediation Research Society, and the Financial Management Association. She is also an advisory board member of the Academic Female Finance Committee (AFFECT) of the American Finance Association and a frequent advisor, visitor, and speaker at central banks worldwide. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, and earned her B.A. and M.Sc. from Bocconi University (Italy).


Journal

Accounting & Finance
ABACUS
Journal of Accounting Literature
British Accounting Review
International Journal of Emerging Markets
Journal of Futures Markets
Pacific-Basin Finance Journal
Journal of International Financial Management & Accounting
International Journal of Managerial Finance
Journal of Financial Reporting and Accounting

PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITY & SHARK TANK EVENT

Instructions for Paper Submission:

PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITY 1:
 

Professor Robert Faff (Corvinus University of Budapest) will co-ordinate and lead another SHARK TANK event at the WFC2025. The key points to note about this event:

  • Targeting HIGH QUALITY seasoned papers presented at the WFC2025 conference;
  • Papers to go through a fast-tracked review for potential publication at a participating Shark Tank journal;

Pre-conference paper reviews will be based on the SHARK TANK process (as described in the information sheet available at the link: https://bit.ly/4cVQZAr)

Participating Journals:

  • Accounting & Finance (Wiley - Impact Factor 2.6)
  • British Accounting Review (Elsevier - Impact Factor 5.1)
  • International Journal of Emerging Markets (Emerald - Impact Factor 2.4)
  • International Journal of Managerial Finance (Emerald - ?Impact factor 1.7)
  • Journal of Accounting Literature ( Emerald - Impact fcator 4.2)
  • Journal of Futures Markets (Wiley - Impact Factor 1.9)
  • Pacific-Basin Finance Journal (Elsevier - Impact Factor 4.6)
  • Journal of International Financial Management & Accounting ( Wiley - Impact Factor 9.4)

How do I initiate my nomination for the WFC2025 SHARK TANK event. The initial nomination for the Shark Tank is simple. At the time of your WFC2024 paper submission, you need to explicitly request that your paper be considered for the SHARK TANK event. To do this, when you are asked to choose the Topic(s) of your paper, please also scroll to the end of the topic list where you will find an option for Shark Tank and select this option.

Details of the series of steps and conditions are described in the guidelines and information sheet available at the following link:

 https://bit.ly/4cVQZAr? 

 
?Instructions for Paper Submission:

1.   Click on the following link: Submit. If you already have an account on our platform, proceed to step 2. Otherwise, please sign up and provide your personal information.
2.   Sign In or Sign Up: If you have an existing account, simply sign in. Otherwise, create a new account by signing up and entering your personal details.
3.   Submission Process: Once logged in, select the option to Submit a Paper from the menu.
4.   Selecting Topics: During the submission process, indicate the topics of your paper. Additionally, you MUST SELECT the option SHARK TANK at the end of the list. It is crucial to select not only the Shark Tank option but also other topics from the list because if the paper is not accepted for this session, it can be accepted to integrate another normal session of the conference. The conference has only 4 special sessions of Shark Tank with 4 papers each one.
5.   Upload Your Paper: Finally, upload your paper. Please ensure that you provide two versions: one with the names of the authors and another without for blind review purposes.
 
2.   PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITY 2:
 
Professor Robert Faff from Bond University will again coordinate and lead a pre-registered proposals stream at WFC2025. The pre-registration process focuses on accepting proposed projects based on great ideas, highly capable expert research teams who employ frontier techniques that deliver credible and reliable knowledge. Put simply, pre-registered proposal presenters will strive to convince the journal editor to sponsor their yet-to-be-executed research toward future publication in Pacific-Basin Finance Journal (PBFJ). This stream of WFC2025 will be based on a carefully designed process described in the guidelines and information sheet available at the following link: https://bit.ly/47zuTCm
For further information & inquiries regarding either of these special WFC2025 events (i.e., either Shark Tank or Proposals), please email Professor Faff directly: rfaff@bond.edu.au