FinWork Futures

FinWork Futures is an interdisciplinary research centre investigating the future of financial work and the challenges and opportunities that new technologies raise for the financial professions.

Technological change on a global scale is reshaping expert financial knowledge and practices. It is transforming the nature of financial work and the character of financial professions, from auditors and accountants to fund managers and traders. This transformation poses significant challenges with respect to how we understand expertise, the ethics of professions and the regulation of professional work.

We investigate the future of financial work in relation to the global rise of digital technologies, the impact of which is felt across sectors, professional groups and organisational hierarchies. Our research sheds light on the work of those who produce, use and regulate digital tools in finance: variously resisting or embracing them, but nonetheless altering global financial landscapes in the process.

We aim to harness King’s Business School’s academic expertise on finance, technology and work practices, whilst fostering collaboration with other areas of the College, such as the Dickson Poon School of Law.

Members

Zhong Chen

Lecturer in Accounting and Finance

Roland Gemayel

Research Associate

Christian Heath

Professor of Work and Organisation

Aleksandra Jordanoska

Senior Lecturer in Corporate Law

Lerong Lu

Senior Lecturer in Law

Paul Luff

Professor in Organisations and Technology

Alex Preda

Professor of Professions, Markets and Technology

Rita Samiolo

Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Financial Management

Michael Schillig

Professor of Law, Vice Dean Research

Crawford Spence

Professor of Accounting

Sylvaine Tuncer

Lecturer In Work, Interaction & Technology

Julie Valk

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Mingzhu Wang

Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Financial Management

Ruowen Xu

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Professional Hybridisations and Epistemic Practices of Cryptocapital: An Ethnographic Investigation of Cryptoasset Firms

We investigate professional collaborations involving software engineers and finance professionals in blockchain firms.

The Future of Professional Financial Expertise

In what ways is technological innovation prompting a recalibration of professional expertise in various financial domains? Will this innovation force organisations in the sector to reconfigure themselves? What are the skills that professionals will need to use technology to deliver better outcomes for their stakeholders, as well as to survive and thrive in the future?

Ethics and Algorithms

This cluster investigates the major ethical and regulatory challenges raised by technological innovation in finance. How do emerging financial technologies influence human behaviour? How should we seek to anticipate, evaluate, and intervene on their impact? How should regulators and policy makers respond to emerging new types of financial service providers and to new types of financial services?

Active fund managers and the rise of Passive investing: epistemic opportunism in financial markets, Economy and Society

Performance and learning in an ambiguous environment: A study of cryptocurrency traders, International Review of Financial Analysis

The Spectacle of Expertise: How Financial Analysts Perform in the Media, Columbia University Press

Between Stakeholders and Third Parties: Regulatory Rankings and the Organization of Competition, Research in the Sociology of Organizations

Expertise in the Crypto and BlockchainIndustries: What Are the Challenges, Future of Financial Work Research Centre

Thinking like the State: Doxa and Symbolic Power in the Accounting Field in China, Accounting, Organizations and Society

Innovation and public attitudes in Britain: Challenges for policy-makers, King's Policy Institute

‘Earning the Write to Speak: Sell-side analysts and their struggle to be heard’, Contemporary Accounting Research

Does a scopic regime erode the disposition effect? Evidence from a social trading platform, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 154, p. 175-190

Does a scopic regime produce conformism? Herding behavior among trade leaders on social trading platforms, European Journal Of Finance. 24, 14, p. 1-36

Noise: Living and Trading in Electronic Finance, University of Chicago Press.