The 4th International Conference for Alternative Finance Research is a dedicated forum for alternative finance researchers and practitioners from all around the globe. It covers themes addressing crowdfunding, digital fundraising and lending, microfinance and prosocial lending, invoice trading, crypto assets and currencies, etc.

 

The conference serves as a cross-disciplinary meeting place for scholars of information systems, economics, finance, management, entrepreneurship, marketing, business ethics and law under one roof to exchange ideas and help develop the field both theoretically and practically, while engaging in close dialog with industry stakeholders and policy makers.

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The 2025 event is organized as a collaboration between the University of Agder's School of Business and Law, the Utrecht University European Center of Alternative Finance, and Aalborg University. 

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Important Dates:

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Paper submission deadline: 15.02.2025

Author notification: by 20.03.2025

Early-bird registration: until 15.04.2025

Abstract submission for proceedings: 20.05.2025

Paper presentation delivery: 27.05.2025

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Panel Discussion Participants: (to be continuously announced)