Key themes for the conference:

1. Financing for Growth – Innovation and Investor Protection

• Financing Innovative and Growth Companies through Public Markets – Focus on Investor Protection
• The Last Decade in Securities Markets: Analysis of Growth and Lessons
• ESG Financing – Standards and Benchmarks relevant to Emerging Markets
• Financing through Social Stock Exchange – Potential Size & Scale in India (given the extent of current charitable/ impact financing in India)
• Any Other Related Topic

2. Corporate Bond and Hybrids Market – The Agenda for a Complete Market

• Challenges and Instruments for Financing Different Stages of Infrastructure Projects – Lessons for Corporate Bond and Hybrids Market in India (including REITs and InvITs)
• Corporate Bond Liquidity – Drivers, Challenges and Global Benchmarks
• Role of Mutual Funds in Development of Corporate Bond Market (including investments by mutual funds in debt and support by mutual fund industry to creating a broader eco-system for corporate debt market viz. Limited Purpose Clearing Corporation, Market Making, Stress Period Backstop Facility, etc.)
• Retail Participation in Hybrid Products viz. REITs, InvITs – Prospects and Challenges
• Any Other Related Topic

3. Asset Management – Emerging Trends and Policy Lessons

• Passive Investing – Regulatory Approach for Indian Context vs. Developed Markets
• Mutual Funds – Impact of SIPs and Lumpsum Investments on Investors' Returns
• Risk Management in Mutual Fund Debt Schemes – A Global Comparison
• Fintech and Financial Inclusion in Capital Market – The New Regulatory Template
• Any Other Related Topic

4. Market Risk and Supervision – The New Tech Landscape

• Insider Trading Supervision – Alternative Data Driven Approaches and their Efficacy
• Product Suitability in F&O, High Risk Mutual Funds, AIFs, PMS – Tech Led Investor Education and Risk Management
• How Account Aggregators can be a Game Changer in the Capital Markets?
• Any Other Related Topic

Separate Category and Session for Young Researchers (YRs):

• This will be a half a day session (parallel session with other conference activities) with 4-5 papers/ideas/posters to be selected for the presentation.
• The topics should be related to securities markets and not restricted only to the conference themes.
• Participants can be under-graduate, graduate, PG students or young researchers pursuing full time PhD with any university and below 35 years of age.
• There will be a cash prize of ₹ 15,000 for the best idea in this segment.
• The session will be open to the conference audience.

Paper Submission Guidelines: This Conference is open for all the researchers, faculty members, market intermediaries, policy makers, regulators, students and other stakeholders in the areas of Finance across the globe.

1. Paper can be submitted under two different categories:
• Regular Category (RC)
• Young Researcher (YR) Category
2. Same author cannot submit papers under both categories i.e. YR Category and Regular Category.
3. Selected authors from YR Category will have to provide Proof for Date of Birth and Proof of education level from the HoD of their Department or schools/PhD guide on letter head during submission of their papers.
4. Those submitting papers in YRs category have to state the paper title as YRC – title of paper. Regular Category researchers needs to mention paper title only. Further details are provided in submission guidelines.

Submit your research at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=4thsnrc

Important Dates

Last date for Paper Submission:	December 30, 2022
Commencement of Registration:	January 24, 2023
Announcement of Paper Acceptance:	January 30, 2023
Last date for Registration:	February 24, 2023

For any queries related to paper submission contact:
Mr. Shiba Prasad Mohanty
Email Id: asiaklems2023@gmail.com
Mobile No.: 8903119925
WhatsApp No.: 8903119925

For registration-related queries contact:
Mr. Ashutosh Kumar
Email Id: ssir@nism.ac.in
Mobile No.: 9326022370/7506581992
WhatsApp No.: 7506581992

For further details please visit: https://www.nism.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Brochure-4th-SEBI-NISM-Research-Conference-V-7-1.pdf