2026
UK WOMEN IN FINANCE WORKSHOP
23 March 2026, Bayes Business School
2026 UK WOMEN IN FINANCE WORKSHOP programme
The UK Women in Finance Workshop aims to bring together women in Finance from across the UK to foster a dynamic environment for research, networking, and support. While the event is primarily focused on women, everyone is welcome to attend and participate.
Our goal is to consolidate the UK Women in Finance Network, with this year’s event hosted by Bayes Business School, City St George’s, University of London. Following successful events at Warwick Business School and Imperial College Business School, this workshop is the third in a series of annual conferences, with future events to be hosted by different schools across the UK. By creating a supportive community, we hope to inspire collaboration, share insights, and elevate the presence of women in the field of Finance.
The workshop programme covers one full day starting at 8:30am and finishing with a networking event and dinner.
Keynote Speakers
Professor Mireia Gine’ (IESE Business School)
Professor Neeltje Van Horen (University of Amsterdam and the Bank of England).
We aim at as wide participation as possible. The registration is on first come first serve basis.
Key Dates
Please submit your full manuscript in PDF format by 15th January, 2026, to bankingcentre@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Notification of acceptance by the end of January 2026.
Local organising committee
Barbara Casu; Daniela Fabbri; Sonia Falconieri; Angela Gallo; Vasso Ioannidou; Sujata Visaria
Scientific committee
Giorgia Borboni, (Warwick Business School), Lara Cathcart (Imperial Business School), Claudia Custodio (Imperial Business School), Claudia Girardone (Essex Business School), Moqi Groen-Xu (Queen Mary University of London), Olga Klein (Warwick Business School), Min Park (University of Bristol Business School), Manuela Pedio (University of Bristol Business School), Anna Sarkisyan (Essex Business School), Hanwen Sun (School of Management, University of Bath), Qian Wang (Warwick Business School)
Sponsors
We acknowledge financial support from the Centre for Banking Research, Bayes Business School and the Academic Female Finance Committee of the American Finance Association (AFFECT).
2025
6th Research Workshop - The Future of Financial Mutuals
2nd December 2025, Bayes Business School, City, University of London
The Centre for Banking Research (CBR) at Bayes Business School, Building Societies Association (BSA), and Federcasse – BCC Credito Cooperativo jointly organised the 6th Research Workshop on the future of financial mutuals.
Event programme
Laura Wallis's keynote speech
News item - Conference explores mutually assured prosperity
2023
3rd Research Workshop the Future of Financial Mutuals
- 1st December 2023 - Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – Milano
The Centre of Cooperative Banking (CRCC) at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, the Centre for Banking Research (CBR) at Bayes Business School, the Building Societies Association (BSA) and Federcasse are jointly organising the 3rd Research Workshop on the future of financial mutuals. The workshop will provide an opportunity for academics, policymakers, and practitioners to engage in high-level discussion on the prospects of the industry.
We welcome submissions of high-quality papers on the broad theme of the future of mutuals.
- Submission Deadline: September 30th.
Day-Ahead PhD Workshop on Financial Intermediation
- 1st September 2023, Bayes Business School
Organised by the Centre for Banking Research at Bayes in coordination with ‘New (and Old) Risks to Financial Intermediaries’ Conference.
- Submission Deadline: May 15th 2023
- Submit papers to: bankingcentre@bayes.ac.uk
We invite high quality papers by PhD students in the area of financial intermediation.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Inflation, rising interest rates and risks to banking sector and the real economy
- Fintech: opportunities and challenges to the banking sector
- Climate change and transition risk: opportunities and challenges to the banking sector
- Non-bank financial intermediation.
The aim of the workshop is to allow PhD students to present their research and receive feedback from senior researchers. PhD presentations will be discussed by senior mentors. PhD students in the last stages of their PhD studies (e.g., going in the market in the Autumn of 2023) are particularly encouraged to apply.
The workshop is sponsored by the Centre for Banking Research at Bayes and organized in collaboration with Tobias Berg (Frankfurt School/Goethe University), Steven Ongena (Univeristy of Zurich), and Loriana Pelizzon (Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE and Goethe University Frankfurt).
Conference on 'New (and Old) challenges to Financial Intermediaries'
On 2nd September 2023, alongside CEPR, (Centre for Economic Policy Research) we'll host a conference on the intersection of banking and corporate finance.
Call for papers
- Submission Deadline: Monday 15 May 2023
The regulatory framework was overhauled after the financial crisis of 2007-09 aiming to reduce fragility of the banking sector and adverse effects to the economy. Now again, the banking sector at the centre of turmoil in financial markets.
The conference’s keynote speaker will be Viral Acharya (NYU, Stern and CEPR).
The organising committee invites submissions of high-quality papers on the intersection of banking and corporate finance. Topics include (but are not limited to):
- Big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence
- Climate change, transition risk, and green finance
- Central bank balance sheets, monetary, and financial stability
- Financial contagion and systemic risk
- Financial regulation and supervision
- Monetary policy and financial stability
- Macroprudential policy and financial stability
- Non-bank financial intermediation
You can upload your submission via the CEPR HUB.
Authors of accepted papers will be notified by 15 June
Organisers
Barbara Casu (Bayes Business School)
Angela Gallo (Bayes Business School)
Vasso Ioannidou (Bayes Business School & CEPR)
Francesc Rodriguez-Tous (Bayes Business School)
Henry Thornton Lecture 2023: "Do index funds benefit society?"
- 24th May 2023, Bayes Business School
Professor Martin Schmalz will deliver this year's Henry Thornton Lecture.
This lecture delineates recent research indicating side effects and equilibrium effects of indexing. Side effects include concerns about governance and competition of portfolio firms, which may help explain the secular decline in productivity and other macroeconomic trends.
Professor Martin Schmalz
Professor of Finance and Economics & Head of the Finance, Accounting, Management & Economics Area, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.
He co-authored “The Business of Big Data: How to Create Lasting Value in the Age of AI”. His prize-winning research focuses on corporate governance and asset management.
Mais Lecture 2023: “How to green the global economy”
- 5th June 2023, Bayes Business School
This year’s Mais Lecture will be delivered by Odile Renaud-Basso, President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) on "How to green the global economy"
The EBRD’s Board of Governors elected Ms Renaud-Basso as the Bank’s seventh President in October 2020 during its 29th Annual Meeting. She is the first ever woman head of a multilateral development bank.
8th Emerging Scholars in Banking and Finance conference
Our eighth Emerging Scholars conerence took place on the 1st of December.
2022
2022 Autumn Workshop with the Financial Intermediation Network of European Studies (FINEST)
2 December 2022
The Financial Intermediation Network of European Studies (FINEST) is pleased to announce that its next workshop will be hosted by the Centre for Banking Research (CBR) at Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), City, University of London, on December 2, 2022.
FINEST workshops are small meetings with an in-depth discussion (from top scholars) of a limited number of high-quality papers with the aim of fostering discussion among academics, policymakers, and practitioners about the evolving challenges facing banks.
We expect to accept up to six papers for presentation and a set of research proposals (in the “early ideas” session) from young scholars. We invite submission of papers in all areas related to financial intermediation, including bank risk taking, regulation, supervision, financial stability, ownership structure and governance issues, Covid-19, market structure and competition, and FinTech.
Venue
Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), City, University of London, 106 Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TZ, UK
Organisers
- Barbara Casu, Bayes Business School, UK
- Angela Gallo, Bayes Business School, UK
- Francesc Rodriguez-Tous, Bayes Business School, UK
- Francesco Saverio Stentella, University of Rome III, Italy
2nd Research Workshop: The Future of Financial Mutuals - Wednesday, 7th September 2022
The Centre for Banking Research (CBR) at Bayes Business School and the Building Societies Association (BSA) are jointly organising the 2nd Research Workshop on the future of mutuals.
Keynote address: Dame Colette Bowe (Bank of England)
Dame Colette will speak about the link between household indebtedness and financial stability, and the Financial Policy Committee’s recent analysis in assessing the risks.
The workshop will provide an opportunity for academics, policymakers, and practitioners to engage in high-level discussion on the prospects of the industry.
The International Workshop on Financial System Architecture and Stability (IWFSAS) - Monday, 5th & Tuesday, 6th September 2022
The 2022 International Workshop on Financial System Architecture and Stability (IWFSAS): “Re-Thinking Risk Management During Times of Paradigm Shifts: Implications for Financial Markets and Institutions”.
As the world emerges from a global pandemic and steps into rising political tensions, risk management must address the shifting nature of business volatility. The changes likely to affect risks and their management in the coming years will arise from different contexts: demography and societal changes, the environment, technological innovation, and changes in socioeconomic structures including rising inequalities.
These will reshape the conventional paradigms and create new ones, modify financial institutions vulnerability to risks, transform the channels through which risk spread, and alter government, investors, and corporate responses..
Keynote speakers: Industry Keynote (Dr Alison Scott, Bank of England) and an Academic Keynote (Prof Marcin Kacperczyk, Imperial College).
2020
Food for thought webinar - Do we still need to worry about bank misconduct? 2020
Professor Barbara Casu recently took part in a webinar hosted by Professor Daniel Beunza as part of the Business School Autumn Series of events.
The event focussed on what is conduct risk and how can financial institutions manage it? Banks are keen to argue that misconduct episodes are legacy issues, but there are emerging vulnerabilities which might lead to new problems. Misconduct tends to rise during crises and new technologies, products and competitors continue to concern regulators. This session will review the main types of financial misconduct and what it might mean for banks striving to foster a more ethical culture and regaining customers’ trust.
Monitoring Misconduct: Maintaining and Developing Banking Standards 2020
The Centre for Banking Research launched the CBR Conduct Cost Project report on 15th September, at an online event Monitoring Misconduct: Maintaining and Developing Banking Standards. José Manuel Campa, Chairperson of the European Banking Authority (EBA), delivered a lecture about bank misconduct, banking standards and public trust in financial institutions.
CBR Conduct Cost Project report discusses the financial consequences of bank misconduct for twenty of the world’s leading banks, from January 2008 to December 2018.
IWFSAS2020 - International Workshop on Financial System Architecture & Stability 2020
Thursday 10th to Friday 11th September 2020
Speakers
Professor Beata Javorcik - Chief Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Professor of Economics, University of Oxford, and Director at CEPR, Andrea Beltramello - European Commission, Alyssa Heath - Principles for Responsible Investment, Misa Tanaka - Bank of England
Climate-Related Financial Risks and Green Finance: Challenges and Opportunities
How does climate change impact financial markets? What can banks and investors do to foster green investment? What is the role of institutions in helping tackle climate risks?
To answer these and other topical questions, the Centre for Banking Research at the Business School, EMEA, and The Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria, jointly organised the fifth IWFSAS conference. The online conference offered academics, practitioners, and policymakers the opportunity to discuss innovative research on a range of topics related to climate risk and sustainable finance.
Professor Beata Javorcik Chief Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Professor of Economics, University of Oxford, and Director at CEPR, will give the keynote speech.
Andrea Beltramello (European Commission), Alyssa Heath (Principles for Responsible Investment), and Misa Tanaka (Bank of England) discussed the role of institutions in fostering a greener and more sustainable Europe in our public policy panel.
This year’s IWFSAS meeting was hosted by the Centre for Banking Research at the Business School, in collaboration with the Gustavson School of Business at the University of Victoria and the Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association (EMEA).
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2019
Workshop on Bank Business Models 2019
19 June 2019 at the Business School - City, University of London. This workshop aimed to discuss cutting-edge research and implications for academics, practitioners, and policy-makers on bank business models. The workshop included:
- a small number of selected academic presentations and discussions
- the launch of the new edition of the Banking Business Models Monitor: Banks Business Models Monitor: EUROPE. Performance, Risk, Regulation and Resolution 2005-2018
- the launch of the book: “Business Models in banks: definition, identification and financial stability assessment - Europe, United States and Canada” by Rym Ayadi
More information about the event
2018
International Workshop on Financial System Architecture and Stability (IWFSAS) 2018
10-11 September 2018 at the Business School - City, University of London. The IWFSAS aims at providing a forum for academic researchers and policy makers to discuss issues related to the structure and design of financial systems and their impact on growth and financial stability.
More information about the event.
Research Symposium on Financial Mutuals 2018
The BSA is hosting a second Research Symposium on Financial Mutuals on 12 September 2018, at the Business School, London.
2017
Quo Vadis? Identity, Policy and the Future of the European Union
20 March 2017 at the Business School, City, University of London. This discussion forum will be chaired by Dr Barbara Casu, the Business School, City, University of London.
Read more about Quo Vadis? Identity, Policy and the Future of the European Union.
2016
Brexit Beckons: Thinking ahead by leading Economists
13 December 2016 at the Business School, City, University of London. This panel discussion will be chaired by Dr Barbara Casu, The Business School, City, University of London
European Economy Workshop - Bank Resolution and Mutualisation of Risk
5 December 2016 at the Business School, City, University of London. This panel discussion will be chaired by Dr Barbara Casu, The Business School, City, University of London.