FinanSE 2026: The 3rd InternationalWorkshop on AI Solutions for Software Engineering Challenges in Financial Firms

Software development has an integral role in every financial organization. Almost every service provided by a bank or a financial utilizes some form of software solution, often driven by artificial intelligence (AI). While AI for SE research has led to solutions and innovations for many popular SE problems, SE challenges in the finance domain remain unresolved and under-explored in the literature. For example, defect prediction is of particular importance in the finance domain where defects should not be treated equally as some may lead to large reputational and financial damage more than others. Testing and verification activities are therefore burdened with further restraints for finance-based SE teams.

Financial firms started automating processes as early as the 1960s, and as such, still maintain large legacy systems which may host critical operations.

Maintaining these systems while modernizing them leads to pressing challenges, spanning from model extraction and process optimization to code translation. Moreover, financial firms are highly regulated and hence require a high degree of transparency and accountability. Enabling effective automated auditing and compliance processes calls for innovative requirements engineering (RE) methods to capture and operate normative requirements, regulate model fairness and facilitate explainability for any SE solution, in particular those driven by AI.

AI has transformed software engineering methodologies and practices. In the era of GenAI, there is a strong appetite for automation of software development and maintenance at a far greater level than we have imagined before. Therefore, we encourage creative and novel ideas to utilize the currently available methods and/or GenAI to improve the state-of-the-art in the software development and maintenance industry.

FinanSE aims to provide the SE community working on FinTech-relevant topics in both industry and academia with a unique opportunity to discuss the main challenges and work in collaboration towards effective solutions.

Call for Papers

Submission Topics
We invite submissions at the intersection of financial services and software engineering. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• AI/ML for Software system monitoring and analytics
• Software reliability, automated testing, and high-value defects prediction
• Software modernization and cloud migration
• Code translation from ``low-resource'' programming languages
• Programming without coding (natural language to software)
• Search-based software engineering and optimization
• Model extraction for legacy software systems in low data and highly regulated environments
• Model explainability and fairness
• Human aspects of AI for Software Engineering in a financial market
• Regulatory compliance and normative requirements
• SE for blockchains and smart contracts

Submission Guidelines
We invite the following types of submissions:

• Research Papers (max 8 pages, including references). These papers should describe original research at the intersection of Finance (or FinTech) and SE. Such papers can describe either a new technical solution or an empirical evaluation of existing solutions.
• Extended Abstracts (max 4 pages, including references). An extended abstract is a research paper that presents preliminary work or research previews. Note that this article type is free of APC charges.
• Flash Talk Proposal (max 2 pages including references). A flash talk is a short presentation of approximately five minutes on a relevant topic to the workshop. Flash talk proposals will not be included in the workshop proceedings.

Please submit your paper as PDF via our HotCRP.

All submissions must conform, at time of submission, to the official “ACM Primary Article Template”, which can be obtained from the ACM Proceedings Template page. LaTeX users should use the sigconf option, as well as the review (to produce line numbers for easy reference by the reviewers). To that end, the following LaTeX code can be placed at the start of the LaTeX document: \documentclass[sigconf,review]{acmart}.

The workshop follows a single-blind review process.

Other detailed submission policies and formatting guidelines are aligned with the ICSE 2026 Research Track submission process.

Conference Attendance Expectation
If a submission is accepted, at least one author of the paper is required to register for and attend the workshop to present the paper. The presentation is expected to be delivered in person.

Contact
If there are queries regarding the CFP, please contact the FinanSE 2026 organizers.