The International Conference on Open Finance (ICOF 2025) is the world’s premier venue dedicated to sharing of research on the use of open standards and open source in banking, investments and financial markets, covering everything from infrastructure, analyses of financial transactions, portfolio management, policy & regulations, and new technologies in finance (FinTech).
ICOF 2025 aims to unite researchers, scientists, scholars, and students to exchange experiences, share new ideas, and present research findings across various disciplines involving open standards and open-source technologies including their potential applications to the financial services sector. ICOF 2025 is col-located with the Open Finance Conference 2025 which is an industry conference and participants from both conferences will be encouraged to interact to discuss real-world challenges and innovative solutions.
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers describing recent work in the field of banking, investments, financial markets and others using open standards and open-source technologies. Authors are also invited to submit practical, industry-oriented papers. A special industrial case-study track is dedicated to papers that enable others to learn the best industry practices.
The ICOF 2025 is an in-person only conference. There will be no online presentations of accepted papers or abstracts.
ICOF 2025 will be co-located with the Open Finance Conference (OFC’25) which is an industry focused event. All participants will be able to access any sessions in OFC’25 and ICOF 2025.
Conference Areas
The conference will cover the following topics, among many others:
- AI/ML
- Banking
- Blockchain
- Capital Markets
- CBDC
- Crowdfunding
- Crypto-currencies
- Cybersecurity
- FinTech
- Insurance
- NFTs
- OpenAPI
- Open Banking
- Open Hardware
- Open Innovation & Entrepreneurship
- Open Wallets
- Portfolio Management
- Real Estate
- RegTech
- Robotic Process Automation
- Sustainable Finance
- Trade Finance
Program Committee
Click here for a list of the Program Committee members
Submission Guidelines
We invite full papers, extended abstracts, and work-in-progress reports that contribute to academic deliberations and industry discourse. To ensure academic rigor and quality, all submissions will undergo a double-blind peer review process. Accepted papers may be considered for publication in the conference proceedings at the authors’ discretion.
Submission Categories
Full Papers (Max 4500 words)
Extended Abstracts (Max 1500 words)
Work-in-Progress Papers (Abstracts) (500-1,000 words)
Submission Platform
- All submissions must be made through Microsoft CMT using this submission link. If you have not used CMT before, register to create an account and then submit your documents.
- Authors should submit two documents:
- A cover page with the paper title, names and email addresses of the authors, and
- A manuscript, written using the SETSCI template, that can be downloaded by clicking here.
IMPORTANT: Since all manuscripts will undergo a double-blind peer review, do not include name of the authors in your manuscript submission.
- The length of the manuscript will depend on the Submission Categories mentioned above.
- Accepted papers where the authors have registered for the conference will be eligible for publication in the open access journal SETSCI Conference Proceedings
- Each published paper will be assigned its own DOI, and
- The ICOF 2025 papers will be published as a separate volume of the journal.
Important Dates
Paper/Extended Abstract Submission Deadline: 5 May 2025
Notification of Acceptance: Rolling
Early Registration Deadline: 15 July 2025
Camera-Ready Paper Deadline: 27 July 2025
Conference Dates: August 28-29, 2025
Conference Venue: Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place Hotel, Springfield, MA 01144, USA
Call for Papers (PDF)
Click here to access the PDF version of the Call for Papers.
Any questions please email the conference chairs at: chairs@openfinanceconference.us