Message from the Editorial Board
Dear Delegates,
The Organizing Committee of IFC 2026 takes immense pleasure in congratulating you for having your paper accepted at the 14th International Conference on Emerging Trends in Corporate Finance and Financial Markets to be held on October 29-30 October 2026. The full papers presented in the conference are being published in the ‘Compendium of Papers’ bearing ISBN: 978-81-999803-0-3. The Annual Finance Conference series has earned an enviable reputation for providing the requisite platform for discerning researchers, academicians, and corporate executives for presenting papers within the realm of Finance, Accounting and Banking.
Finance Conference 2026 witnessed an overwhelming participation of delegates from India presenting papers on contemporary issues in Corporate Finance and Financial Markets. We are confident that you would have benefitted from the deliberations over the two days and noted the comments and suggestions made by our Session Chairs. Based on the evaluation forwarded by Session Chairs and a subsequent review process, select papers will be published in the Institute’s journal ‘SDMIMD Journal of Management’, which is indexed globally and as well as in Indian Journal of Finance (ABDC-C, SCOPUS). The acceptance of the paper(s) is of course subject to fulfilling the requirements of the Journal(s). The Editorial Team of the Conference will communicate with the selected authors in due course of time.
We wish to congratulate you once again and look forward to your continued patronage with us in the years to come.
Best Wishes in your academic and research endeavours!
Warm regards,
Editorial Board-Finance Conference 2026.
Dr.(Lt Col).S.N.Prasad
Chief Patron & Director
SDMIMD, Mysore
Dr. S. Vasumathy Hariharan
Conference Chair & Professor – Finance
Conference Papers
| Paper Number | Title of the Paper | Author 1 | Author 2 | Author 3 | Author 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IFC2601 | Brand Loyalty, Price Sensitivity, and Purchase Intention Towards FMCG Products: An Empirical Study among Urbanization Consumers in Tamil Nadu | R. Prabusankar | Y. Prabakar | ||
| IFC2602 | The Future of UPI and Digital Payments: Challenges and Opportunities in India | Mehfuza Sultana | |||
| IFC2603 | Managing Health and Financial Risk in Rural Micro-Health Insurance: Conceptualizing Community Health Workers as Risk Intermediaries | K. Sona | D. H. Malini | K Neshika | A Sachitha Priyanka |
| IFC2604 | Risk Management Effectiveness and Perceived Portfolio Risk Performance: Empirical Evidence from Indian Asset Management Companies | S. Siddharth Bouddha | |||
| IFC2605 | Finance 5.0 and Corporate Dividend Policy: Artificial Intelligence, ESG, and Sustainable Value Creation under Global Economic Uncertainty | Ayaan Nandi | Manav M Nair | Bijay Krishna Bhattacharya | |
| IFC2606 | Finance 5.0: Reimagining Financial Ecosystems in an Era of AI, Sustainability and Global Uncertainty: Green Finance as a Catalyst for Sustainable Financial Transformation | Deepa Gangadhar Bhat | Shrihari S Bhat | Bijay Krishna Bhattacharya | |
| IFC2607 | Finance 5.0: Reimagining Financial Ecosystems in an Era of AI, Sustainability and Global Uncertainty – Corporate Finance: Working Capital Management | Kashish Rohra | Raja Babu | Bijay Krishna Bhattacharya | |
| IFC2608 | A study on the usage and awareness of UPI among rural people | Shilpa A C | Dhanushree U N | ||
| IFC2611 | Impact of Digital Trading Platform on Investor Perception towards Stock Market Investment | Shilpa A C | Monika N H | Nagesh H G | |
| IFC2612 | Finance 5.0: Reimagining Financial Ecosystems in an Era of AI, Sustainability and Global Uncertainty: Transforming Equity Markets through Intelligent Finance | Aniket Suresh Ray | Roushan Kumar | Bijay Krishna Bhattacharya | |
| IFC2614 | Finance 5.0: Reimagining Financial Ecosystems in an Era of AI, Sustainability and Global Uncertainty: The Emerging Role of Banking Innovation and Risk Management | Ishita Singh | Yashika Gaur | Bijay Krishna Bhattacharya | |
| IFC2616 | Financial Fundamentals and Stock Valuation: Evidence from NSE-Listed Companies in India | Bharathi Karanth | |||
| IFC2628 | Institutional Trading Behaviour in the Indian Government Securities Market: An Empirical Analysis of Primary Dealer Net Positions | B. Sharathbabu | M. S. Ramaratnam | ||
| IFC2630 | Exploring Behavioural Biases Through A Qualitative Inquiry into Indian G-Sec Dealer Biases – New Avenues With Research Agenda | B. Sharathbabu | M. S. Ramaratnam | ||
| IFC2631 | Establishing a Foundational Baseline for Capital Structure in the Indian Paper Industry: Evidence from 2009–2018 at a Critical Transition Point | Kiruthikasri S | Savitha Kulkarni | Uday Kumar Jagannathan | Vanishree K Rekha Birje |
| IFC2634 | ESG Disclosure, IPO Underpricing and First-Day Return Dispersion: Evidence from India | Shreeraksha Nagendra Bhat | Chetan Shetty | ||
| IFC2636 | From Digital Inclusion to Digital Retrenchment: A Conceptual Analysis of Merchant-Side Transaction Costs in India’s UPI Economy | Guru Prasad C G | Jai Ganesh M N | ||
| IFC2637 | Firm Characteristics and Cost stickiness of Indian firms | Narayan Parab | Priyanka Naik | Moses Prakash Fernades | |
| IFC2640 | The Effect of Margin Trading Facility (MTF) on Market Volatility and Liquidity in Indian Equity Markets | Lucky Verma | T Viswanathan | ||
| IFC2642 | Fintech Access and Usage as Drivers of Financial Inclusion among Women: The Moderating Role of Demographic Characteristics | T.Sunita | Bhawana Sharma | ||
| IFC2643 | AI-Enabled Agricultural Finance: Reimagining Asset Management and Sustainable Wealth Creation in Rural India | Akshathraj Jain | Anjali Ganesh | ||
| IFC2647 | Geopolitical Risk and Firm-Level Stock Performance: An Event Study of Larsen & Toubro | Surya Narayanan KR | Abinaya S | ||
| IFC2649 | A Study on Forecasting Indian Equity Stock Prices Using XGBOOST model and Sentiment Analysis | Siddhant Mishra | Nisha Shankar | ||
| IFC2652 | A study on the Subscription rate and Listing Perfor-mance Prediction of IPO’s using similarity network | Anusha R | Nisha Shankar | ||
| IFC2655 | Valuation Analysis of Cochin Shipyard Limited: An Assessment of Equity Pricing Through DCF Valuation | Catherine Nirmala J | Hardik Shetty | ||
| IFC2656 | Financial literacy, financial inclusion, financial wellbeing, and economic empowerment of particularly vulnerable tribal groups | Fazal P | Mohanadasan T | Prasitha. A | Binu C Kurian |
| IFC2657 | Volatility Dynamics and Spillover Effects in Global Currencies: Evidence from Stochastic and BEKK GARCH Models | T Viswanathan | John Ben | ||
| IFC2659 | Option price modelling with Ito Lemma Model and Heston approach | Prasanna Byahatti | Srikanth P | ||
| IFC2660 | Legal Provisions on Crypto Asset Tokenisation relating to Real Estate : A Comparative Cross-Jurisdictional Analysis with Special Reference to India | V Ramanujam | Salai Kumaran S | ||
| IFC2661 | Attitudes, Interests, and Opinions Framework in Public Sector Bank Selection: A Psychometric Study | Rekha Birje | Savitha Kulkarni | Vanishree K | |
| IFC2663 | An Explorative Research Analysis on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning – Issues, Opportunities and Challenges. | Padmini S.V. | |||
| IFC2664 | From Pollution Haven to Pollution Halo: Environmental Sustainability and FDI Attraction in OECD Countries | B. Keerthika | A. Jayaram | R. Jayaraman | S. Abhinav |
| IFC2666 | Artificial Intelligence and Investor Decision-Making: Evidence from the perspective of Behavioural Bias | Hanish Kukreja | Arun Kumar S | ||
| IFC2667 | Understanding Young Investor Behaviour in Equity Markets: Linking Investment Preferences with Risk–Return Perceptions | Deepthi Y N | Jai Ganesh M N | ||
| IFC2671 | A Study of Overdue Management, Stressed Assets and their impact on Profitability: Evidence from Muthoot Finance Limited | Reema D’Silva | Catherine Nirmala J | Prathveesh | |
| IFC2673 | Dynamic Conditional Correlation Analysis of Post Election Volatility Spillovers Across Global Equity Markets: Evidence from the 2024 Super Election Year | Venkatesh Kumar R | Krishna T A | ||
| IFC2674 | Leverage, Liquidity and Firm Performance: Evidence from Indian Listed Firms | CA Muskaan Kukreja | Rajalakshmi Anantharaman | Shital Mehta | |
| IFC2676 | Informal Financial Mechanism in Goa – A Sustainable Solution to Rural Uncertainties | Sohani Pai Vaidya | Sathish Antony Benadict | ||
| IFC2677 | Clicks or Conversations: Do Investors Prefer FinTech Apps or Traditional Financial Advisory Services? | Anjali Danddin | |||
| IFC2678 | CSR in India: An Analysis of Sectoral and Overall spending Pattern by Selected Companies | Paramesha C | Savitha P |