ABFR is pleased to announce its inaugural in-person workshop and 2nd Doctoral Research Symposium, taking place on November 21, 2026, at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.

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Organized in conjunction with the NBS Conference on AI for Finance and as part of the GIFTS-ADEFT Summit 2026, the workshop will bring together researchers working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, big data, and finance.

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Registration is free. Please use the form below to register to the ABFR Workshop and Symposium.

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The ABFR events are part of the broader GIFTS-ADEFT Summit 2026, hosted by NTU from November 18–24, 2026. The summit features several academic and industry events, including keynote addresses by:

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• Vincent Loy, Chief Technology Officer, Monetary Authority of Singapore
  8:50-9:00am Nov 20, NBS Auditorium
   

• Hui Chen, Nomura Professor of Finance, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  12:30-13:30pm Nov 20, NBS Auditorium
   

• Sydney Ludvigson, Roslyn S. Silver, and Enid Silver Winslow Professor of Economics and Finance, New York University
  11:30-12:30pm Nov 20, NBS Auditorium
   

• Christine Parlour, Sylvan C. Coleman Chair in Finance and Accounting, UC Berkeley
  09:15-10:00am Nov 23, NBS Auditorium
   

• Robert F. Engle, Professor Emeritus of Finance at NYU Stern School of Business, 2003 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences
  12:45-1:30pm Nov 23, HSS Auditorium
   

• Lim Chow Kiat, CEO of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC)
  7:00-7:40pm Nov 23, NBS Auditorium
   

• Ayo Akinyele, Head of Engineering at Ripple
  09:20-10:05am Nov 24, LT10 WCY Plaza

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The full GIFTS-ADEFT Summit 2026 program and registration links for its various events are available here: 

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