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Why CFCI?

Personal development and exposure to advanced, comparative and international / collaborative research
Multi-disciplinary research
Cutting edge and original research with societal relevance and impact
Global partnerships
Part of one of the largest faculties at the University, teething with activity
PGR community building events
Specialised research workshops
Access to the top databases - WRDS (Compustat, CRSP, Boardex, etc.), Refinitive Workspace (Datastream, Eikon, I/B/E/S, Worldscope, etc.), Bloomberg Professional, Fitch Connect, CSMAR, FAME, BankFocus and more

Stimulating Learning Environment

CFCI engages with and produce multi-disciplinary research results primarily for end-user stakeholders (LEAs, businesses, government agencies, banks, practitioners, etc). Hence, drive and design for impact are all inherent and built in its research from the start. CFCI conducts cutting edge and original research with societal relevance and impact whereby, some of our research (e.g. PROTAX, criminalisation of whistle-blowers, use of AI in fraud investigations) is pivotal (key reference point) for other and future research activities

CFCI provides opportunities for early career academics and our PGRs in these endeavours for their respective personal development and exposure to advanced, comparative and international / collaborative research. As a result, a number of our PGRs have taken part not only the preparation of academic conferences but also presented their work at these events.

The centre has a wide network of formal and informal partnerships within the EU, Middle East, South East Asia and Africa. The CFCI has also a sister-centre in China, the Joint Research Centre in Finance and Law which is a joint initiative for cross-disciplinary research in financial regulation, compliance and corporate fraud between the CFCI and the South West University of Political Science and Law in Chongqing (China).