<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:11.75pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">[apologies for cross-posting]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The <b>Workshop on Complex Networks in Banking and Finance</b> (CoNBaF 2024) will be held at the </span><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/activities/23-24/complex-networks" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Fields Institute</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> in Toronto, Canada on 24th – 27th June, 2024</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Workshop Website: <a href="https://conbaf2024.unicas.it/" target="_blank">https://conbaf2024.unicas.it/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The workshop encompasses a range of compelling research topics at the intersection of network science and financial systems. These topics focus on and include addressing key challenges in anti-money laundering, fraud detection, anomaly detection, portfolio management, risk analysis, credit risk, vendor rating, supply chain risk, and financial transaction networks.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"><b style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">Invited Speakers:</font></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Leman Akoglu - Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy -  Carnegie Mellon University<br>Santo Fortunato - Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering,  Indiana University<br>Fabrizio Lillo -  Department of Mathematics, Università di Bologna</font><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Call f</span><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">or Abstracts (and papers) - Deadline: </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">5 Apr 2024</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">We are soliciting abstracts of 500 words with up to 1 figure in the general area of "Complex Networks in Banking and Finance". More info on the aims and scope of the workshop: </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://conbaf2024.unicas.it/home-page" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://conbaf2024.unicas.it/home-page</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Abstract Template: </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1AXJ3npDMPofF2DR12KC8hiR8Z9cXdvve&usp=drive_fs" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://drive.google.com/open?id=1AXJ3npDMPofF2DR12KC8hiR8Z9cXdvve&usp=drive_fs</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Authors have the option to indicate if they are interested in submitting a full paper to a journal special issue of this workshop which will be published in </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://journals.plos.org/complexsystems/" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">PLOS Complex Systems</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> (an open-access journal).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">More info about the call: </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://conbaf2024.unicas.it/call-for-abstracts" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://conbaf2024.unicas.it/call-for-abstracts</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Submission Link: </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CoNBaF2024" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CoNBaF2024</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Please direct questions to the General Chair of the workshop Dr. Pierre Miasnikof at </span><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:p.miasnikof@utoronto.ca" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">p.miasnikof@utoronto.ca</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">We look forward to your participation!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,32,78)">Samin Aref, Ph.D.</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><br>University of Toronto<br></span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://saref.github.io/" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)">saref.github.io</span></a></span></p></div>