Financial Management
The Financial Management (FM) Special Interest Group provides a platform for interdisciplinary research, dialogue, and collaboration between academics and practitioners across the full spectrum of corporate finance and its interfaces with broader management domains. These include entrepreneurship, strategy, international business, regulation, decision sciences, and the foundational discipline of economics. The SIG emphasises analytically rigorous and policy-relevant work that advances understand
About the SIG:
The FM SIG welcomes empirical, theoretical, and methodological contributions that take the firm, financial intermediary, or manager as the primary unit of analysis. The group is particularly interested in research that integrates financial theory with real-world institutional contexts, including regulation, governance, innovation, and market design. A central objective is to strengthen the scholarly community by fostering high-quality research, encouraging critical debate, and supporting the development of publication-ready work. Contributions with clearly articulated managerial implications, policy relevance, and demonstrable impact are especially valued. The SIG actively promotes a collaborative and inclusive research environment. It supports initiatives that enhance diversity and representation within the finance profession and encourages engagement across disciplines, sectors, and career stages. Core values include interdisciplinarity, intellectual openness, impact orientation, sustainability, and collegiality.
Financial and related professional services remain a cornerstone of the UK economy. The sector employs almost 2.5 million people, representing around 7.5% of total UK employment (equivalent to one in every 13 workers) with approximately two thirds of jobs located outside London, in cities such as Birmingham, Edinburgh, Leeds, and Manchester. It is a highly productive sector, with financial services output per hour reaching 2.7 times the whole-economy average, and the sector playing a central role in capital allocation, innovation, and economic growth. The sector's economic contribution has continued to grow. Financial and related professional services contributed approximately £281 billion to UK real gross value added, equivalent to around 12% of total economic output (2024). Within this, accounting, management consulting, and legal services contributed £29.4 billion, £16 billion, and £38 billion respectively. The sector is also the UK's largest net exporting industry, generating a record financial services trade surplus of $127 billion (£95 billion) in 2024, larger than the combined surpluses of Singapore, Switzerland, and Luxembourg. When related professional services are included, the combined trade surplus reached an estimated £119.1 billion.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Corporate Finance
- Asset Pricing
- Financial Intermediation
- Financial Technology (FinTech)
- Artificial Intelligence in Finance
- Financial Regulation and Policy
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Behavioural Finance
- Private Equity
- Risk Management
- Financial Decision-Making
- Household Finance
- Responsible Investment and Environmental Finance
- Entrepreneurial Finance
- Finance of Regulated Firms
- Financial Strategy.
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SIG Committee Members 2026
Professor Raphael Markellos
Raphael Markellos is Professor of Finance at Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia, and a member of the Centre for Competition Policy and the Centre for Science and Policy at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on information finance, estimation risk, and environmental finance, with early contributions to the application of AI and big data in financial analysis, including pioneering work using Google Trends. He is a Faculty Advisor for Harvard Business Publishing and a Fellow of the British Academy of Management, and currently co-leads the World Economic Forum Executive Opinion Survey for the UK. With over 25 years of academic and industry experience across Europe, the US, and Asia, he has advised on cost of capital, innovation, and fraud detection in regulated sectors, and his work is widely cited in academic and policy circles and featured in major international media.
Professor Geoffrey Wood
Professor Geoffrey Wood is Professor and DanCap Private Equity Endowed Chair, and Department Chair DAN Management at Western University in Canada. Previously, he served as Dean and Professor of International Business, at Essex Business School and before then as Professor of International Business at Warwick Business School, UK. He has authored/co-authored/edited eighteen books, and over two hundred and twenty articles in peer-reviewed journals. Geoff's research interests centre on the relationship between institutional setting, corporate governance, firm finance, and firm level work and employment relations.
He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and a Fellow of the British Academy of Management, and is also in receipt of an Honorary Doctorate in economics from Aristotle University, Greece. Geoffrey Wood is Editor in Chief of Human Resource Management Journal. Previously he has served as Editor in Chief of the British Journal of Management (official journal of the British Academy of Management and of the Annals of Corporate Governance (official journal of the ICGS). He is outcoing editor in chief of the Academy of Management Perspectives (official journal of the Academy of Management). He also edited the Chartered ABS Journal Guide ranking list for ten years. He has had numerous research grants, including funding councils (e.g. ESRC), government departments (e.g. US Department of Labour; UK Department of Works and Pensions), charities (e.g. Nuffield Foundation), the labour movement (e.g. the ITF) and the European Union.
Laima Spokevicuite
Dr Laima Spokeviciute is a Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at Cardiff Business School, with research expertise spanning banking, corporate governance, and financial decision-making. Her interdisciplinary work integrates perspectives from economics, regulation, and organisational studies, with a particular focus on bank performance, stability, and financial crises.
She has an established publication record in leading journals such as the Journal of Banking & Finance and The British Accounting Review, and actively contributes to the global research community through editorial roles, conference leadership, and international collaborations.
Dr Hossein Jahanshahloo
Hossein is an Associate Professor of Financial Technology at Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS), The University of Manchester. Prior to this role, he was an Assistant Professor of Finance at Cardiff Business School, University of Cardiff, and before that, he held a similar position at Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds. Hossein holds a PhD and MSc in Finance, as well as a BSc in Computer Software Engineering. Prior to his academic career, he spent five years working in the financial industry. His research focuses on Blockchain Technology, Cryptocurrencies, Market Microstructure, and Algorithmic and High-Frequency Trading.
He is the founder and creator of the Cardiff University Bitcoin Database (CUBiD), a pioneering platform that provides access to structured raw and post-processed data on Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
He is an associate editor at the journal of Research in International Business and Finance (RIBAF) and the Journal of Economic Survey (JES).
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