The objectives of the section are to provide a continuing, specialized focus within INFORMS on the topic of financial services, with the aim of identifying current and potential problems and contributions to their solutions; to lead in the development, dissemination, and implementation of knowledge, basic and applied research and technologies in the area of finance and financial services; and to promote high professional standards and integrity in all work done in the field.

Dear Colleagues:
 
INFORMS-Financial Services Section (FSS) will like to bring the following to your attention:
 
1. Call for Best Student Research Paper Award entries:
Student paper abstracts for this year's INFORMS-FSS Best Student Research Paper Award are due by May 15, 2012, and the complete papers are due by July 1, 2012. For details, please see http://www.informs.org/Community/FSS/Awards. The FSS Prizes continue to attract excellent papers.

2. Call for Presentations in INFORMS-FSS Cluster at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix, AZ, October 14-17, 2012:

As in past years, FSS will sponsor a cluster of sessions around financial services. Dr. Jim Bander is serving as the FSS Cluster Chair this year. If you would like to present a paper, please send a title and abstract at your earliest to Dr. Bander (email addresses are provided at the end of this email). The absolute deadline for abstract submission is May 15, 2012.

If you would like to organize a session in the FSS Cluster, please send us your proposal with title of the session and speakers by May 5, 2012.

For more information on the Annual Meeting, please visit: http://meetings2.informs.org/phoenix2012/.
 
3. Topics for paper presentations and student papers for the FSS sessions and competition include:

 Asset-liability modeling
 Behavioral Finance
 Financial News Analytics
 Credit risk modeling
 Credit risk management
 Derivatives pricing and hedging
 Extreme risks and insurance
 Financial engineering
 Financial operations management
 Financial services
 Liquidity modeling and planning
 Operations management in Banking, Insurance, or Real Estate
 Operational risk management
 Portfolio management
 Portfolio Optimization
 Risk management
 
All non-student papers are automatically entered in the INFORMS-FSS Best Presentation competition.
 
Best Regards,
 
Aparna Gupta
Chair, INFORMS Financial Services Section
http://www.informs.org/Community/FSS
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
guptaa@rpi.edu
 
Chanaka Edirisinghe
Vice-Chair (Optimization)
University of Tennessee
chanaka@utk.edu
 
Steven Kou
Vice-Chair (Applied Probability)
Columbia University
sk75@columbia.edu
 
Jim Bander
Vice-Chair (Practice)
Toyota Financial Services
jim.bander@gmail.com
 
Bruce Moore
Treasurer
ALM Consultant
moorebw@umich.edu
 
Jim Primbs
Secretary
UT Dallas
japrimbs@stanford.edu