International Financial Management Conference (IFMC)
Chandragupt Institute of Management Patna, invites papers from academicians, professionals, policy makers having common interest in “Sustainable Finance, Responsible Investment and Corporate Finance” for the International Financial Management Conference (IFMC) 2026. The one-day conference hosted by Chandragupt Institute of Management Patna aims to provide an excellent platform for discussing emerging issues and future challenges on selected theme and allied areas of finance.
IFMC 2026 will be in two tracks namely
- IFMC (Research Track)
- IFMC (Practitioners’ Track)
Chandragupt Institute of Management Patna was inaugurated in 2008 by His Excellency the then Vice-President of India, Md. Hamid Ansari, as the dream-project of Hon’ble Chief Minister of Bihar, Shri Nitish Kumar to resurrect the ancient educational glory of Bihar. It is an autonomous institute of excellence in management education, consultancy and research set up by the Government of Bihar on the lines of Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs). CIMP offers full time AICTE Approved, NBA accredited and AIU recognized Post- Graduate Diploma in Management Programme; full time AICTE approved Fellow Programme in Management (FPM) and Executive Programme in Management (EXPM) for the officials of Government of Bihar and executives/managers from various industries/corporate. Apart from this, CIMP also provides short-term Training Programme, Research and Consulting services for various departments, agencies and bodies of the government and the corporate.
CIMP is in Rank Band: 101-125 (Management Category) by NIRF 2024 in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) India Rankings 2023. CIMP stands in top 100 in Indian Institutional Ranking Framework (IIRF).
Conference Theme:
Sustainable Finance, Responsible Investment and Corporate Finance
Submissions of papers can be made in following sub themes.
- Screening and integration: sustainability
- Shareholder Engagement
- Sustainability, equilibrium and efficient frontier
- Green taxonomy
- Corporate finance
- Project finance
- Behavioural finance
- Corporate restructuring
- Active Ownership
- Value, voice and exit
- Appraisal of green and brown portfolios
- Pricing of carbon risk
- Disclosures, benchmarking and market discipline
- Climate resilient solutions
- Board ideology
- Institutional activism and future payoffs
- Impact investing
- ESH portfolio/green bonds
- Societal accruals
- Greenium
- Chief sustainability officers and alpha
- Gender diversity and firm performance
- Agricultural Finance
- Tourism Finance
- SME Financing and Challenges
- Microfinance
- Fundamental Indexation and sustainability
Registration is mandatory on confirmation of abstract. Only registered participants will be allowed to take part in the conference. Presenters can participate in the conference in online or offline mode. Paper presenters (authors and co-authors) have to register themselves after the acceptance of the abstract with payment of the registration fees as applicable. There will be no change in paper as well as the name(s) of authors/ co-authors once a paper is accepted. Submission of the full paper is mandatory for consideration for the best paper award. We do not have any provisions for the payment of transport allowance or reimbursement of travel expenses.
IFMC (Practitioner's Track: Factor Zoo Contest)
Factor Zoo Contest is dedicated finance boot camp for corporate participants, job market ready entrepreneurs, researchers and students under the backdrop of 4th International Financial Management Conference (IFMC) organized by the Chandragupt Institute of Management Patna. It will have two rounds prelims and finale. Prelims round of boot camp will initially screen the participants based on the submission of Portfolio Information Document (Job Market Paper of Portfolio Management) subjected to various parameters.
Once the PID is selected for grand finale, additionally, participants will access to behavioural stroll, heuristic lab, annals of strength and weight and popular press. These nudges/cues will additionally help them to be more confident in Factor Zoo Contest. The finale participants will enter into factor zoo and optimize the portfolio and present the summary before Asset Pricing Bench for evaluation. In the grand finale round, participants are expected to defend the portfolio choice, churning, selectivity and timing of investments. Brief details of events are as below.
Patron:
Prof. (Dr.) Rana Singh, Director, CIMP
Chairperson:
Prof. (Dr.) Santosh Kumar, CIMP
Convenor:
Prof. (Dr.) Ranjit Tiwari, CIMP
Secretary General:
Prof. (Dr.) Rajeev Ranjan, CIMP
Members:
- Prof. (Dr.) Sayan Banerjee
- Prof. (Dr.) Sriranga Vishnu, CIMP
- Prof. (Dr.) Ankit Sharma, CIMP
Ms. Sandhya J
Narayan Health
Sandhya J joined Narayana Health as the Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in Dec 2021. She joined Narayana with two decades of diverse experience across FMCG, GBS, Technology and Infrastructure Engineering with the Unilever and Wipro Group. She is business focused finance professional with deep experience in Strategic Finance, Governance, Technology, Transformation and Shared Services. Regular speaker at National and International Conferences, she is regarded as a Thought Leader in business finance, analytics, technology, governance and diversity.
She was Placed in Asia’s 100 Power Leaders in Finance by Whitepage International and India’s Top 100 Women in Finance by AIWMI. She was awarded CA Woman of the Year, 2023 by ICAI and awarded thrice earlier by them as CA CFO of the year/ professional achiever of the year. She was placed in the FE Power List by Financial Express and in the Twenty Three Trial Blazing Women of 2023 by HRAI. She was conferred the title of CFO of the Year 2023 in the 10th Edition of the Future of Finance Summit and Most Innovative CFO” in the Business Leadership Awards 2022. She was Placed in the Top 50 Young Leaders in India by Economic Times. An Alumna of the ICAI, she had secured an All India Rank in Foundation, Inter and Final Examination.
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Mr. Sambasivan G
Tata Play
“Sambasivan is a Post Graduate from IIM Ahmedabad, a Chartered Accountant, AICWA from the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India and a Company Secretary. He has over 32 years of experience across FMCG and service sector industries, including over 15 years with Vodafone, at senior positions in Finance and Operations. He has been with Tata Play for nearly 10 years. Prior to joining Tata Play, he was with the Vodafone group in UK as the Regional Financial Controller for Northern Europe.
In his leisure time, Sambasivan enjoys reading eclectically, and also pursues his interest in playing chess, listening to audio lectures and running the marathon.”
Mr. Kumar Ayashkanta
Dozen Diamonds
Mr. Dipak Bohra
Corporate Treasurer & Head of
Investor Relations, Wipro Ltd.
Mr. Amit Murarka
Head of Global Business
M&A, Investor Relations
KFin Technologies Ltd.
Mr. Dinesh Saboo
Ex CEO, Finmeraki
Mr. Deepak Mandal
Thomson Reuters
Mr. Rakesh Arakere
- Chartered Accountant with more than 3 decades of work experience in the manufacturing sector in areas of Finance, Taxation, HR, Admin and IT.
- Working in TaeguTec India, Bangalore, a market leader in metal cutting tools since year 2000.
- Previous work experience with Crompton Greaves and Grindwell Norton.
- Other interests include marathon running, long distance cycling and listening to Vividh Bharathi old film songs, particularly Talat Mahmood and Mohammad Rafi.
Distinguished Keynote Speakers in the Past
List of Distinguished External Session Chairs/ Invited Speakers
- Prof. (Dr.) Pradeepta Sethi Professor and Area Chair, Accounting and Finance,
- T A Pai Management Institute (TAPMI)
- Prof. (Dr.) Debmallya Chatterjee Professor S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research
- Prof. (Dr.) Sachin Modgil Associate Professor IMI, Kolkata
- Prof. (Dr.) Prashant Sharma Professor and Associate Dean Jindal School of Banking & Finance O. P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat
- Prof. (Dr.) Barun Thakur, Associate Professor, Flame University, Pune
- Dr. Raju G, Associate Professor, Department of Commerce, XIME, Bangalore
- Prof. (Dr.) Ruchi Mishra, Associate Professor, IRMA
- Prof. (Dr.) Gopal Krishna Sarangi, Associate Professor, TERI School of Advanced Studies
- Prof. (Dr.) Tarun Soni, Associate Professor, Fore School of Management
- Prof. (Dr.) Ritambhara Singh, Associate Professor, RPCAU, Pusa
- Prof. (Dr.) Nishikant Kumar, Assistant Professor, BIT Mesra
- Prof. (Dr.) Devi Prasad Satapathy, Assistant Professor, XIM University
- Prof. (Dr.) Chitra Gounder, Associate Professor, N. L. Dalmia Institute of Management Studies and Research
Academia
- Prof. (Dr.) Rana Singh, Director, CIMP
- Prof. Jo-Hui ,Chen, Department of Finance, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan
- Prof. Vishal Singh Patyal, Associate Professor, IIM Visakhapatnam
- Dr. Gopal Krishna Sarangi, Associate Professor, TERI
- Prof. (Dr.) Tarun Soni, Associate Professor, Fore School of Management, New Delhi
- Prof. Jitendra Kumar, Senior Associate Professor, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore
- Dr. Chitra Gounder, Associate Professor, NL Dalmia Institute of Management and Research
- Prof. Barun Kumar Thakur, Associate Professor- Economics, Flame University
- Dr. Sanjeev Kumar, Associate Professor, Jindal Global Business School
- Dr. Nishant Kumar, Associate Professor, Department of Business Administration, Lucknow University, Lucknow
- Prof. (Dr.) Santosh Kumar, Associate Professor- Finance, CIMP
- Prof. (Dr.) Ranjit Tiwari, Associate Professor- Finance, CIMP
- Prof. Prasenjit Chakrabarti, Assistant Professor, IIM Ranchi
- Prof. Nishikant Kumar, Assistant Professor, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
- Prof. Tavishi Tewary, Assistant Professor, Fore School of Management, New Delhi
- Dr. Sridhar M Samant, Assistant Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
Industry
- Mr. Kumar Ayaskanta, Group Chief Investment Officer, WIPRO
- Mr. Janardhana Anjanappa, Founder and CEO; TYHCE Investments
- Mr. Manish Jha, VP (Operations), Golcha Group
List of Participating Institutions
Overseas Institutions
- Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan
- Oklahoma State University, United States
- Pennsylvania State University, United States
Domestic Institutions
- Indian Institute of Management Sambalpur
- Indian Institute of Management, Ranchi
- Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra (Deoghar)
- Banaras Hindu University(BHU), Varanasi
- NIMS School of Business, NIMS University, Jaipur
- KIIT University, Bhubaneswar
- Christ University
- Amity University, Greater Noida
- Assam Down Town University
- Tezpur University
- Punjabi University, Patiala
- Other institutions
The organizing committee welcomes submission in all areas of sustainable finance and responsible investment domain. The authors can submit extended abstract for the IFMC 2026. However, authors who are targeting best paper award and publication opportunity need to submit a full paper.
Abstract submission closes : 15th January, 2026
Notification of Acceptance : 30th January, 2026
Registration Opens : OPEN
Full Paper Submission Closes : 30th January, 2026
- Academicians & Industry Professionals: INR 1,500
- Research Scholars, Post-Graduate Students & others: INR 1,000
- Participants (Non-Presenters): INR 500
- Overseas Paper Presenters/ Participants: USD 50
Registration Fee(Non-Refundable) may be paid online at the time of Registration at the conference portal.
Incase of Online Transaction Failure, Registration Fee can be deposited via NEFT/RTGS/IMPS transactions:
Bank A/c name : Chandragupt Institute of Management Patna
Bank A/c No. : 2920000108100915
Bank Name & Address : Punjab National Bank, Mithapur Branch, Patna
IFSC Code : PUNB0880500
Please share your NEFT/RTGS/IMPS transaction details to Conference Secretariat: ifmc@cimp.ac.in
Outstation paper presenters will be provided accommodation on the payment basis.
Conference Secretariat :ifmc@cimp.ac.in
Mobile: +91 9155142017
Chandragupt Institute of Management Patna, invites papers from academicians, professionals, policy makers having common interest in “Sustainable Finance, Responsible Investment and Corporate Finance” for the International Financial Management Conference (IFMC) 2026. The one-day conference hosted by Chandragupt Institute of Management Patna aims to provide an excellent platform for discussing emerging issues and future challenges on selected theme and allied areas of finance. IFMC 2026 will be in two tracks namely IFMC (Research Track) and IFMC (Practitioners’ Track). IFMC (Practitioners’ Track) will also host the corporate contest for corporate practitioners and investment professionals as Factor Zoo Contest.
IFMC (Research Track)
Conference Theme:
Sustainable Finance, Responsible Investment and Corporate Finance
Submissions of papers can be made in following sub themes.
- Screening and integration: sustainability
- Shareholder Engagement
- Sustainability, equilibrium and efficient frontier
- Green taxonomy
- Corporate finance
- Project finance
- Behavioural finance
- Corporate restructuring
- Active Ownership
- Value, voice and exit
- Appraisal of green and brown portfolios
- Pricing of carbon risk
- Disclosures, benchmarking and market discipline
- Climate resilient solutions
- Board ideology
- Institutional activism and future payoffs
- Impact investing
- ESH portfolio/green bonds
- Societal accruals
- Greenium
- Chief sustainability officers and alpha
- Gender diversity and firm performance
- Agricultural Finance
- Tourism Finance
- SME Financing and Challenges
- Microfinance
- Fundamental Indexation and sustainability
IFMC (Practitioner's Track: Factor Zoo Contest)
Factor Zoo Contest is dedicated finance boot camp for corporate participants, job market ready entrepreneurs, researchers and students under the backdrop of 4th International Financial Management Conference (IFMC) organized by the Chandragupt Institute of Management Patna. It will have two rounds prelims and finale. Prelims round of boot camp will initially screen the participants based on the submission of Portfolio Information Document (Job Market Paper of Portfolio Management) subjected to various parameters.
Once the PID is selected for grand finale, additionally, participants will access to behavioural stroll, heuristic lab, annals of strength and weight and popular press. These nudges/cues will additionally help them to be more confident in Factor Zoo Contest. The finale participants will enter into factor zoo and optimize the portfolio and present the summary before Asset Pricing Bench for evaluation. In the grand finale round, participants are expected to defend the portfolio choice, churning, selectivity and timing of investments. Brief details of events are as below.
Chandragupt Institute of Management Patna (CIMP) has been established as an autonomous institution, with active support from the Government of Bihar in the year 2008. The Honourable CM Shri. Nitish Kumar happens to be the Chairman of the institute. It is approved by AICTE, Ministry of HRD, Government of India. The flagship programme of the institute of accredited by NBA and approved by AIU. CIMP is in Management (Rank Band: 101-125) as per NIRF-2024.
The Institute conducts the following major programmes:
- Fellow Programme in Management (FPM)
- Two-Year Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGDM)
- Two-Year Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGDM-IEV)
- Executive programme in management for Government officials (EXPM)
- Management Development programme (MDP)
Patron:
Prof. (Dr.) Rana Singh, Director, CIMP
Chairperson:
Prof. (Dr.) Santosh Kumar, CIMP
Convenor:
Prof. (Dr.) Ranjit Tiwari, CIMP
Secretary General:
Prof. (Dr.) Rajeev Ranjan, CIMP
Members:
- Prof. (Dr.) Sayan Banerjee
- Prof. (Dr.) Sriranga Vishnu, CIMP
- Prof. (Dr.) Ankit Sharma, CIMP
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Academia
- Prof. (Dr.) Rana Singh, Director, CIMP
- Prof. Jo-Hui ,Chen, Department of Finance, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan
- Prof. Vishal Singh Patyal, Associate Professor, IIM Visakhapatnam
- Dr. Gopal Krishna Sarangi, Associate Professor, TERI
- Prof. (Dr.) Tarun Soni, Associate Professor, Fore School of Management, New Delhi
- Prof. Jitendra Kumar, Senior Associate Professor, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore
- Dr. Chitra Gounder, Associate Professor, NL Dalmia Institute of Management and Research
- Prof. Barun Kumar Thakur, Associate Professor- Economics, Flame University
- Dr. Sanjeev Kumar, Associate Professor, Jindal Global Business School
- Dr. Nishant Kumar, Associate Professor, Department of Business Administration, Lucknow University, Lucknow
- Prof. (Dr.) Santosh Kumar, Associate Professor- Finance, CIMP
- Prof. (Dr.) Ranjit Tiwari, Associate Professor- Finance, CIMP
- Prof. Prasenjit Chakrabarti, Assistant Professor, IIM Ranchi
- Prof. Nishikant Kumar, Assistant Professor, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
- Prof. Tavishi Tewary, Assistant Professor, Fore School of Management, New Delhi
- Dr. Sridhar M Samant, Assistant Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
Industry
- Mr. Kumar Ayaskanta, Group Chief Investment Officer, WIPRO
- Mr. Janardhana Anjanappa, Founder and CEO; TYHCE Investments
- Mr. Manish Jha, VP (Operations), Golcha Group
Registration is mandatory on confirmation of abstract. Only registered participants will be allowed to take part in the conference. Presenters can participate in the conference in online or offline mode. Paper presenters (authors and co-authors) have to register themselves after the acceptance of the abstract with payment of the registration fees as applicable. There will be no change in paper as well as the name(s) of authors/ co-authors once a paper is accepted. Submission of the full paper is mandatory for consideration for the best paper award. We do not have any provisions for the payment of transport allowance or reimbursement of travel expenses.
- Academicians & Industry Professionals: INR 1,500
- Research Scholars, Post-Graduate Students & others: INR 1,000
- Participants (Non-Presenters): INR 500
- Overseas Paper Presenters/ Participants: USD 50
Registration Fee(Non-Refundable) may be paid online at the time of Registration at the conference portal.
Incase of Online Transaction Failure, Registration Fee can be deposited via NEFT/RTGS/IMPS transactions:
Bank A/c name : Chandragupt Institute of Management Patna
Bank A/c No. : 2920000108100915
Bank Name & Address : Punjab National Bank, Mithapur Branch, Patna
IFSC Code : PUNB0880500
Please share your NEFT/RTGS/IMPS transaction details to Conference Secretariat: ifmc@cimp.ac.in
The organizing committee welcomes submission in all areas of sustainable finance and responsible investment domain. The authors can submit extended abstract for the IFMC 2025. However, authors who are targeting best paper award and publication opportunity need to submit a full paper.
Abstract submission closes : 15th January, 2026
Notification of Acceptance : 30th January, 2026
Registration Opens : OPEN
Full Paper Submission Closes : 30th January, 2026
Outstation paper presenters will be provided accommodation on the payment basis.
Conference Secretariat :ifmc@cimp.ac.in
Mobile: +91 9155142017