Meet the staff members that make up the The Institute of European Finance Management Board.
Meet the staff members that make up the The Institute of European Finance Management Board.
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Highlights
Due to their expertise and global reputation, members of the Institute of European Finance feature frequently in the national and international media. In addition, members often write short blogs in response to current events, disseminate research findings, and inform a wide array of stakeholders. Details of media coverage and appearances, and blogs, can be found below.
- Two of Yener’s working papers have been presented by his co-authors at the CGRM 2025 conference in Roma:
- Freilli, G., Palmieri, E. and Altunbas, Y. “Financial Innovation or Sustainability? How Fintech M&As and ESG Strategies affect Bank Performance Across Business Models”, CGRM 2025 Conference, Roma, October 2, 2025
- Altunbas, Y., Di Martino, G., Mazzuca M. and Miglietta, F., “Stranded assets and climate-related risks: The case of real estate and the credit market in Italy”, CGRM 2025 Conference, Roma, October 3, 2025. - Nation.Cymru published an article by Ed in which he considers non-technology ideas from Silicon Valley (the Dark Enlightenment in particular) and the possible impact on democracy. The article argues that there are many lessons from a start-up mentality but countries aren’t businesses. https://nation.cymru/opinion/when-startup-thinking-threatens-democracy/.
- Congratulations to Binru, whose paper entitled “Can machines learn Chinese mutual funds?” has been accepted for publication in the Pacific-Basin Finance Journal.
- Congratulations to Hanxiong, whose paper entitled “CEO social class origins and risk taking” has been accepted for publication in European Financial Management.
- Congratulations to Heather, who has been invited to serve on the Programme Committee for the 6th ACM International Conference on AI in Finance for the second year in a row.
- Congratulations to Binru, who has received the Outstanding Paper Award at the 2025 International Academic Conference on Digital Finance in China for his paper entitled “Kindred Spirits: Bank ESG Reputation Risk, Loan Syndication Structure, and Renegotiation”.
- Congratulations to Khaled, who has had two papers accepted for publication this week:
- “The Impact of COVID-19 Disclosures on Information Asymmetry: Evidence from the United Kingdom” in the Journal of Accounting Literature, and
- “ESG Performance, Family Ownership, and Corporate Risk‐Taking: The Moderating Role of the CSR Committee” in the International Journal of Finance & Economics.
- Congratulations to Valantis, whose paper entitled “The demographic transition and stagnation in countries vulnerable to climate change” has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.
- Congratulations to Duc, who’s bid for £1,510 to the Taith mobility fund has been successful. Duc will visit the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen in the autumn. His objective is to initiate a new collaborative project on Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption and AI washing, and to finalise an ongoing study on mandatory ESG disclosure regulations
- Congratulations to Cem Soner (PhD student), who has been awarded a Taith mobility funding worth £2080 (Plus visa costs) for a one-month research visit to the University of Valencia (hosted by Professor Santiago Carbó Valverde) sometime in 2025/26.
- Congratulations to Khaled, whose paper entitled “An Empirical Analysis of Waste Management Practices in French Family Firms” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Accounting Literature.
- Congratulations to Heather, whose paper entitled “Spatial-Temporal Stock Movement Prediction and Portfolio Selection Based on the Semantic Company Relationship Graph” has been accepted for publication in Quantitative Finance.
- Congratulations to Heather, who has been awarded £700 in seed funding to support her role as an event organiser in the ESRC Festival of Social Science. The event, titled “The Hidden Cost of Returns: What Happens After You Click ‘Buy’?”, will be held in late October this year in collaboration with a colleague in Cardiff.
- Congratulations to Yener, who has been appointed as a Visiting Professor at the University of Calabria.
- Congratulations to Binru, who has been awarded £1,540 by the Taith Research Mobility Programme.
- Ed published an article in Business News Wales about the new US trade tariffs and the potential impact on the UK economy - Tariff is not the most beautiful word in the dictionary.
- On Wednesday, Ian presented his work at a University of Kent webinar: “AI in Higher Education: What Happened When I Made It Mandatory in Assessments”. He will present this work to the School on 30th April 2025.
- Yener’s recently published research in the Journal of Banking & Finance - Stricter Oversight Needed As Financial Misconduct Drives Risk-Taking in Banking
- The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Spring Statement was a focus this week. Ed shared his views with the i Paper and Rhys spoke on Dros Frecwast on BBC Radio Cymru (00:14:00).
- Matteo De Leonardis, a researcher from the University of LUM Giuseppe Degennaro, Bari, is currently visiting Bangor to work on a research paper on “Sustainability and bank efficiency” with Yener.
- On Wednesday, 26th March 2025, Emmanouil Pyrgiotakis (University of Essex) will presented his paper entitled “High-frequency trading and stock price crash risk” to the BBS Research Seminar Series. Many thanks to Shee Yee for hosting this interesting session.
- Dr Binru Zhao presents at the 8th ENTFIN Conference
- Islamic Bonds - Shee-Yee Khoo, Assistant Professor in Finance
- On Sustainable Supplier Selection and Order Allocation using Combinatorial Auctions - Dr. Sadeque Hamdan
- BAFA Annual Conference 2024 - Mahmoud Abdelkader
- OR66 Presentation - Dr Chris Davies
- Adrian Gepp presents prestigious Royal Statistical Society (RSS) 2023 Conference
- IEF member wins Association of European Operational Research Societies award
- Professor Adrian Gepp presenting at the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) 2023 Conference in Harrogate
- "Bangor Business School represented at EFiC Conference in Italy"
- The crisis-filled clouds do have a silver lining
- Why UK inflation is so high compared to EU and US and what to do about it
Working Papers and Publications
The Institute of European Finance is a name synonymous with research excellence. Members conduct rigorous academic analysis and combine knowledge and tools from different disciplines to meet current and future challenges. Details of members’ publications can be found below.
- “Can machines learn Chinese mutual funds?" (December 2025 issue)
- “The demographic transition and stagnation in countries vulnerable to climate change” (September 2025)
- “An Empirical Analysis of Waste Management Practices in French Family Firms” (September 2025)
- “ESG Performance, Family Ownership, and Corporate Risk‐Taking: The Moderating Role of the CSR Committee” (July 2025)
- “CEO social class origins and risk taking” (July 2025)
- “The Impact of COVID-19 Disclosures on Information Asymmetry: Evidence from the United Kingdom” (July 2025)
- Restraining Overconfident CEOs Through Credit Ratings (May 2025)
- Islamic bonds ratings and the price of risk (May 2025)
- “On the Dual-Resource Overnight Charging Problem of Battery Electric Buses” (Published April 2025)
- Ed published an article in Business News Wales about the new US trade tariffs and the potential impact on the UK economy - Tariff is not the most beautiful word in the dictionary. (April 2025)
- Yener’s recently published research in the Journal of Banking & Finance - Stricter Oversight Needed As Financial Misconduct Drives Risk-Taking in Banking (March 2025)
- Eco-innovation and corporate waste management: The moderating role of ESG performance (Published August 2024)
- How tax administration influences social justice: The relational power of accounting technologies (Published July 2024)
- Politicians’ connections and sovereign credit ratings. (Published July 2024)
- Do CEOs’ characteristics impact sell-side analysts’ recommendations? (Published June 2024)
- The impact of finance on income inequality: A threshold analysis (Published May 2024)
- Responsible risk-taking and the CSP-financial performance relation in the banking sector: A mediation analysis (Published April 2024)
- The evolution and determinants of the non-performing loan burden in Italian banking (Published April 2024)
- Supply chain coordination in a dual sourcing system under the Tailored Base-Surge policy (Published April 2024)
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