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) 2027. 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 2027 will be in two tracks namely
- IFMC (Research Track)
- IFMC (Practitioners’ Track)
IFMC (Practitioners’ Track) will also host the corporate contest for corporate practitioners/ investment professionals/ post graduate students.
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.
Conference Theme:
Sustainable Finance, Responsible Investment and Corporate Finance
Submissions of papers can be made in following sub themes.
- Corporate finance
- Project finance
- Behavioural finance
- Corporate restructuring
- 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. IFMC also provide travel support for selected full papers in IFMC Research Track.
IFMC (Practitioner's Track)
IFMC Practitioners’ Track is dedicated finance boot camp for corporate participants, job market ready entrepreneurs, researchers and students under the backdrop of 5th International Financial Management Conference (IFMC) organized by the Chandragupt Institute of Management Patna. Participants from corporate/students may devise the problem statement along with proposed solution document on any one of the tentative themes in IFMC Practitioners’ Track.
- Portfolio Information Document ( Factor Zoo)
- Bond Indenture
- Scheme Information document for Masala Bond
- REIT/InvIT Document
- Gati Shakti Challenge and Solutions
- Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report
- Red Herrings Prospectus
- CFO Strategy Room
- Bespoke Investment Banking
- Nudge
- Financial Modelling
- Case Development
- SAI Model (Standardize, Automate and Integrate)
- Business Continuity Plan
Participants of IFMC Practitioners Track will identify the topic (tentative list) which may incorporate the problem statement along with proposed solution (including methodology). These three tier practitioners’ tracks ( Bespoke problem……..data dredging and scientific processing……proposed solution)
Prof. (Dr.) Brajesh Kumar
Professor, AJNIFM
Prof. (Dr.) Pradeepta Sethi
Professor, Associate Dean
Research & Area Chair, AEF
Mr. Govind Shanbogue
Ex. Managing Director
Santander Corporate & Investment Banking
Mr. Vikas Kapoor
CFO, Travel Food Services
Mr. Dilip Sampige Anand
Market Risk Manager
ExxonMobil
Mr. Manoj Lahoti
CFO, Delta Global
- Dr. Sudharshan Paramati, Professor, School of Business, University of Dundee, UK
- Dr. Sankarshan Basu, Professor, IIM Bangalore
- Dr. Prashant Gupta, Professor, IIM Nagpur
- Dr. Anju Singh, Professor, IIM Mumbai
- Prof. Chandan Sharma, Professor, IIM Lucknow
- Mr. Som Sekhar Mishra, CEO, International Shipping and Logistics, FZE (a Tata company)
- Mr. Kumar Ayaskanta, Global Treasurer-EY GDS, Ernst & Young (EY)
- Mr. Sambasivan G, Chief Financial Officer, Tata Play
- Mr. Rakesh Arakere, Chief Financial Officer, Taegutec
- Ms. Sandhya J, Group Chief Financial Officer, Narayan Health
- Mr. Kumar Anand, Managing Director, and Head Investments, S Cube Capital Singapore
- Mr. Govind Shanbogue, Managing Director, Santander Corporate and Investment Banking UK
- Ms. Anubha Prasad, General Manager, SIDBI
- Mr. Ashish K Khatua, Associate Vice President, JSW Steel Limited
- Mr. Amit Murarka, Senior Vice President, Head of Global Business M&A, Investor Relations, KFin Technologies Ltd.
- Mr. Dinesh Saboo, Writer, Speaker & Industry Coach, Ex CEO, Finmeraki
- Mr. Deepak Mandal, Director, Finance, Thomson Reuters
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
List of Participating Institutions
Overseas Institutions (3)
- Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan
- Oklahoma State University, United States
- Pennsylvania State University, United States
Domestic Institutions (22)
- Indian Institute of Management Sirmaur, Himachal Pradesh
- Himalaya College of Professional Education, Chiksi, Paliganj, Patna, BiharIndian Institute of Management, Ranchi
- Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra (Deoghar)
- School of Behavioural Sciences & Forensic Investigations, Rashtriya Raksha University, Lavad, Dahegam, Gandhinagar, Gujarat
- Apollo Institute of Hospital Administration, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad, Telangana
- Alliance University, Bangalore
- Baderia Global Institute of Engineering and Management, Jabalpur
- Indira Gandhi University, Meerpur, Rewari (Haryana)
- Raiganj University, Raiganj, West Bengal
- Veer Kunwar Singh University, Ara, Bihar
- Central University of South Bihar, Gaya
- Sastra Deemed University, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
- SRM Institute of science and Technology, Kattankulathur
- Bharathiar University
- Mahatma Gandhi Central University Motihari, Bihar
- NIT Patna
- University Business School, MRSPTU Bathinda
- Maharaja Ranjit Singh Punjab Technical University Bathinda
- National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi, India
- Amity College of Commerce and Finance, Amity University, Patna
- Swarrnim University
- SOCMS, Sandip University, Madhubani, Bihar
- Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Motihari, East Champaran, Bihar
- School of Business, Auro University, Surat
- Chandragupta Institute of Management
- Institute of Cooperative and Corporate Management Research and Training, Lucknow
- XIME Bangalore
- CSIR-Central Institute of Mining & Fuel Research, Barwa Road, Dhanbad
- AMU Aligarh
- Sibsagar Commerce College, Assam
- Mailam Engineering College
- Lingaya’s Lalita Devi Institute of Management and Sciences
- Chhaygaon College, Chhaygaon Saveetha Engineering College (Autonamous)
The organizing committee welcomes submission in all areas of sustainable finance and responsible investment domain. The authors can submit extended abstract for the IFMC 2027. However, authors who are targeting best paper award and publication opportunity need to submit a full paper.
Abstract submission closes : 15th October, 2026
Notification of Acceptance : 30th October, 2026
Registration Deadline : 30th November, 2026
Full Paper Submission Closes : 31st December, 2026
- Academicians & Industry Professionals: INR 2,000
- Research Scholars, Post-Graduate Students & others: INR 1,500
- Participants (Non-Presenters): INR 1000
- Overseas Paper Presenters/ Participants: USD 50
- Registration Fees (Practitioners’ Track): INR 100.00
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
Full paper presenters will be reimbursed to and fro 3AC Train Fare.
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) 2027. 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 2027 will be in two tracks namely
- IFMC (Research Track)
- IFMC (Practitioners’ Track)
IFMC (Practitioners’ Track) will also host the corporate contest for corporate practitioners/ investment professionals/ post graduate students.
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.
- Corporate finance
- Project finance
- Behavioural finance
- Corporate restructuring
- 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. IFMC also provide travel support for selected full papers in IFMC Research Track.
IFMC (Practitioner's Track)
IFMC Practitioners’ Track is dedicated finance boot camp for corporate participants, job market ready entrepreneurs, researchers and students under the backdrop of 5th International Financial Management Conference (IFMC) organized by the Chandragupt Institute of Management Patna. Participants from corporate/students may devise the problem statement along with proposed solution document on any one of the tentative themes in IFMC Practitioners’ Track.
- Portfolio Information Document ( Factor Zoo)
- Bond Indenture
- Scheme Information document for Masala Bond
- REIT/InvIT Document
- Gati Shakti Challenge and Solutions
- Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report
- Red Herrings Prospectus
- CFO Strategy Room
- Bespoke Investment Banking
- Nudge
- Financial Modelling
- Case Development
- SAI Model (Standardize, Automate and Integrate)
- Business Continuity Plan
Participants of IFMC Practitioners Track will identify the topic (tentative list) which may incorporate the problem statement along with proposed solution (including methodology). These three tier practitioners’ tracks ( Bespoke problem……..data dredging and scientific processing……proposed solution)
Prof. (Dr.) Brajesh Kumar
Professor, AJNIFM
Prof. (Dr.) Pradeepta Sethi
Professor, Associate Dean
Research & Area Chair, AEF
Mr. Govind Shanbogue
Ex. Managing Director
Santander Corporate & Investment Banking
Mr. Vikas Kapoor
CFO, Travel Food Services
Mr. Dilip Sampige Anand
Market Risk Manager
ExxonMobil
Mr. Manoj Lahoti
CFO, Delta Global
- Dr. Sudharshan Paramati, Professor, School of Business, University of Dundee, UK
- Dr. Sankarshan Basu, Professor, IIM Bangalore
- Dr. Prashant Gupta, Professor, IIM Nagpur
- Dr. Anju Singh, Professor, IIM Mumbai
- Prof. Chandan Sharma, Professor, IIM Lucknow
- Mr. Som Sekhar Mishra, CEO, International Shipping and Logistics, FZE (a Tata company)
- Mr. Kumar Ayaskanta, Global Treasurer-EY GDS, Ernst & Young (EY)
- Mr. Sambasivan G, Chief Financial Officer, Tata Play
- Mr. Rakesh Arakere, Chief Financial Officer, Taegutec
- Ms. Sandhya J, Group Chief Financial Officer, Narayan Health
- Mr. Kumar Anand, Managing Director, and Head Investments, S Cube Capital Singapore
- Mr. Govind Shanbogue, Managing Director, Santander Corporate and Investment Banking UK
- Ms. Anubha Prasad, General Manager, SIDBI
- Mr. Ashish K Khatua, Associate Vice President, JSW Steel Limited
- Mr. Amit Murarka, Senior Vice President, Head of Global Business M&A, Investor Relations, KFin Technologies Ltd.
- Mr. Dinesh Saboo, Writer, Speaker & Industry Coach, Ex CEO, Finmeraki
- Mr. Deepak Mandal, Director, Finance, Thomson Reuters
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
List of Participating Institutions
Overseas Institutions (3)
- Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan
- Oklahoma State University, United States
- Pennsylvania State University, United States
Domestic Institutions (22)
- Indian Institute of Management Sirmaur, Himachal Pradesh
- Himalaya College of Professional Education, Chiksi, Paliganj, Patna, BiharIndian Institute of Management, Ranchi
- Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra (Deoghar)
- School of Behavioural Sciences & Forensic Investigations, Rashtriya Raksha University, Lavad, Dahegam, Gandhinagar, Gujarat
- Apollo Institute of Hospital Administration, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad, Telangana
- Alliance University, Bangalore
- Baderia Global Institute of Engineering and Management, Jabalpur
- Indira Gandhi University, Meerpur, Rewari (Haryana)
- Raiganj University, Raiganj, West Bengal
- Veer Kunwar Singh University, Ara, Bihar
- Central University of South Bihar, Gaya
- Sastra Deemed University, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
- SRM Institute of science and Technology, Kattankulathur
- Bharathiar University
- Mahatma Gandhi Central University Motihari, Bihar
- NIT Patna
- University Business School, MRSPTU Bathinda
- Maharaja Ranjit Singh Punjab Technical University Bathinda
- National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi, India
- Amity College of Commerce and Finance, Amity University, Patna
- Swarrnim University
- SOCMS, Sandip University, Madhubani, Bihar
- Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Motihari, East Champaran, Bihar
- School of Business, Auro University, Surat
- Chandragupta Institute of Management
- Institute of Cooperative and Corporate Management Research and Training, Lucknow
- XIME Bangalore
- CSIR-Central Institute of Mining & Fuel Research, Barwa Road, Dhanbad
- AMU Aligarh
- Sibsagar Commerce College, Assam
- Mailam Engineering College
- Lingaya’s Lalita Devi Institute of Management and Sciences
- Chhaygaon College, Chhaygaon Saveetha Engineering College (Autonamous)
The organizing committee welcomes submission in all areas of sustainable finance and responsible investment domain. The authors can submit extended abstract for the IFMC 2027. However, authors who are targeting best paper award and publication opportunity need to submit a full paper.
Abstract submission closes : 15th October, 2026
Notification of Acceptance : 30th October, 2026
Registration Deadline : 30th November, 2026
Full Paper Submission Closes : 31st December, 2026
- Academicians & Industry Professionals: INR 2,000
- Research Scholars, Post-Graduate Students & others: INR 1,500
- Participants (Non-Presenters): INR 1000
- Overseas Paper Presenters/ Participants: USD 50
- Registration Fees (Practitioners’ Track): INR 100.00
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