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The 5th 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 2027 event is organized as a collaboration between the Association for Alternative Finance Research and the MBS School of Business..
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Important Dates:
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Paper submission deadline: 05.05.2027
Author notification: by 05.07.2027
Early-bird registration: until 01.10.2027
Abstract submission for proceedings: 04.12.2027
Paper presentation delivery: 06.12.2027
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Keynote Speakers:
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Panel Discussion Participants: (to be continuously announced)

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08.12.2027 - Panel 1:
To be announced​
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09.12.2027 - Panel 2:
To be announced
10.12.2027 - Panel 3:
To be announced

Prof. Rotem Shneor
University of Agder School of Business and Law, Norway

Dr. Samuel Nyarko
MBS School of Business, France
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Dr. Joanna Adamska, University of Gdansk, Poland
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Dr. Prince Baah-Peprah, University of Agder, Norway
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Dr. Anna Fornalska, IMC Krems University of Applied Sciences, Austria
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Dr. Urszula MrzygÅ‚ód, University of Gdansk, Poland
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Dr. Thomas Neumann, University of Aalborg, Denmark
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Dr. Friedemann Polzin, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
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Karsten Wenzlaff, University of Hamburg, Germany
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Marco Luzi, University of Malaga, Spain, and University of Agder, Norway

