FIRN - Financial Integrity Research Network
FIRN (Financial Integrity Research Network) is an ARC Research Network, mainly funded by the Australian Research Council but also through contributions from its member universities.
FIRN's mission is to enhance the integrity and efficiency of Australia's financial system and to establish Australia as the Asia-Pacific hub of financial markets research excellence.
One of FIRN's strategies to achieve these goals is to bring people from various disciplines together in educational events which will lead to further collaboration and research in the broad field of financial integrity.
Towards the Innovation, Integrity and Efficiency of Australia's Financial System
By world standards, Australia's financial system is relatively small, however highly sophisticated in its development and use of enabling technologies and risk management practices. Currently, major challenges are posed to the integrity and efficiency of this system by the increasingly global and integrated nature of financial transactions, and the potential for widespread adverse effects. The associated corporate governance issues have drawn public attention. Australia's finance and economics research base has well developed international links but is by some measures diminishing in its global impact relative to its potential. World-wide, the development of ever more complex financial instruments and strategies, and the associated research technologies, continues to accelerate. The network plays an essential role in placing Australia amongst the key players in new research technologies.
Newsletter
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Forthcoming Events
- FIRN Master Class 2008 30 June, 2008 - 4 July, 2008
More information
- Find out more about about FIRN
from the FIRN website