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The 2025 Sydney Banking and Financial Stability Conference - In Person ONLY

15-16 December 2025

Submission Deadline: 31 August

Organized by the University of Sydney Business School Sydney, Australia

Conference location: Belinda Hutchinson Building H70

The University of Sydney Business School

 

The Discipline of Finance at the University of Sydney Business School invites submissions for the 2025 Sydney Banking and Financial Stability Conference (SBFC). Our primary objective in organising this conference is to provide a platform where international academics can gather, interact, and exchange their latest insights in Banking, Financial system stability, and other topics within the traditional and emerging fields of Finance. By facilitating this forum, we aim to prioritise collaborative endeavours to address the most pressing and contemporary issues concerning banking and financial stability. Furthermore, we aspire to contribute to public policy discussions on enhancing our collective framework and fortifying the financial system’s resilience for the future. 

 Keynote Speaker

• Ms. Andrea Brischetto
    Head of Financial Stability Department in the Financial System Group, The Reserve Bank of Australia.

• Professor Sumit Agarwal
    Low Tuck Kwong Distinguished Professor of Finance and a Professor of Economics and Real Estate, the National University of Singapore, Singapore

Workshop

• Professor Robert Faff
    

Editor-in-Chief, Pacific Basin Finance Journal

Professor Faff will hold a workshop (via Zoom) on “Pre-registered Research Matters! and PBFJ publishing tips”.

Conference Convenor

• Suk-Joong Kim, University of Sydney, Australia

Paper Submission

• The conference welcomes submissions of research papers encompassing various traditional and emerging subject areas of Banking and Finance, such as Financial Intermediation, Financial Institutions and Markets, Fintech, Cryptocurrency and Central Bank Digital Currency, Financial system stability, Corporate Finance, Asset Pricing, Investment and Funds Management, and Macro Finance. Submitted papers should broadly align with the overarching themes of financial stability and the resilience of the financial system. 
• Paper submission is via an online submission link on the conference website, https://sbfc.sydney.edu.au/submission. Please submit an anonymous version of your paper in PDF format. Full author and coauthor details (name, affiliation and email) are recorded separately during the online paper submission process.
• The paper submission deadline is 31 August 2025.
• Authors will be notified of our decision by 30 September 2025.

Special session organisation

• The conference is open to a limited number of special sessions, each containing three papers, organised by interested researchers proposing a theme-based session within the overall focus of the conference.
• Interested researchers are encouraged to contact the conference organiser at sbfc.conference@sydney.edu.au with a proposal by 15 August 2025.

Journal sponsorship - A Special Issue of the Pacific Basin Finance Journal

• Pacific Basin Finance Journal will publish a full Special Issue on “Banking and Financial Stability in the Pacific Basin countries” from a selection of papers presented at SBFC2025. 
  
• Papers presented at the conference and carefully revised following the discussant’s comments are invited to submit to the SBFC2025 special issue of PBFJ.
• The normal submission and review process, including a submission fee, will apply.
• The review process will be handled by the Special Issue Guest Editors and reviewed by the SBFC2025 Program Committee.
• It should be noted that, given an over-saturation of PBFJ submissions on climate finance, green finance and ESG; these topics are not sought for this Special Issue.
• Further instructions on submission to the special issue will be communicated after the conference.
• Special Issue Guest Editors are: Andrew Grant, Suk-Joong Kim, Haekwon Lee, and Reuben Segara, all at the University of Sydney.

Best Paper Awards

• The three best paper awards will be presented at the gala dinner. 
  • Best paper - Banking 
  • Best paper - Financial Stability 
  • Best paper - PhD Candidate 

Conference Registration (https://sbfc.sydney.edu.au/registration)

• There is NO fee for paper submission or registration to participate in the conference for session participants (presenters, discussants and chairs). However, registration is required to attend the conference, with a deadline of 15 October 2025.
• There will be a charge for the Gala dinner scheduled on the first day of the conference, Monday 15 December 2025. Attendance at the Gala dinner is optional but strongly encouraged. The dinner charge will be specified at a later date.

Scientific Committee

• Please refer to the conference website: https://sbfc.sydney.edu.au/

Key Dates

• Special session proposal deadline:                15 August 2025
• Paper submission deadline:                            31 August 2025
• Paper acceptance decision:                           30 September 2025
• Registration deadline:                                     15 October 2025
• Conference dates:                                          15-16 December 2025 

Conference Sponsors

• The University of Sydney Business School
• The Reserve Bank of Australia

Further Information

• Should you have any questions, please contact sbfc.conference@sydney.edu.au
• For further information and updates, please visit the conference website: http://sbfc.sydney.edu.au