Editors
- Arash Aloosh, Dublin City University
- Yackolley Amoussou-Guenou, Paris-Panthéon-Assas University
- Eleonora Broccardo, University of Trento
- Co-Pierre Georg, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Description
This special issue explores how digital financial systems can be designed and managed responsibly, bridging FinTech innovation with ethical leadership and governance. The guest editors invite research examining the intersection of technological advancement with principles of inclusion, transparency, and trust across financial ecosystems.
The collection welcomes diverse methodological approaches—theoretical analyses, empirical studies, conceptual papers, design science contributions, case studies, and practice-focused research—that address key challenges in responsible finance, including trust and governance in digital platforms, cybersecurity and privacy, regulatory compliance, blockchain and decentralized finance, central bank digital currencies, and sustainable financial innovation.
Potential topics
- Governance frameworks for ethical and responsible financial technologies
- Algorithmic transparency and explainability in financial decision-making
- Trust-building mechanisms in digital financial platforms and ecosystems
- Managing operational and cyber risks in digital financial infrastructures
- Privacy-preserving technologies and responsible data stewardship
- Organisational resilience and risk governance in FinTech-enabled environments
- Regulatory innovation, sandboxes, and adaptive compliance models
- Automated compliance systems and their organisational implications
- Ethical challenges in data-driven finance and consumer protection
- Governance and accountability in decentralised ecosystems
- Organisational adoption and management of tokenised assets
- Risks and opportunities arising from smart contracts and decentralised protocols
- Trust, usability, and acceptance of CBDCs among different demographic groups
- Managing interoperability and public–private collaboration in digital currency ecosystems
- Policy and organisational challenges related to sovereign digital money
- FinTech as a catalyst for financial inclusion and empowerment
- ESG-driven financial technologies and green digital finance
- Digital literacy, fairness, and equitable access to financial services