The long-running academic conference on cryptography for money.
FEB
8–12
2027
Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC'27) is an academic research conference on securing transactions and financial systems. The 31st edition is at the Accra Beach Hotel & Spa in Barbados.
FC is an annual research conference organized by the International Financial Cryptography Association. It covers the security of transactions and commercial systems, and in recent years much of the programme has been about blockchains and cryptocurrencies.
The 2027 edition is the 31st and runs for five days at the Accra Beach Hotel & Spa in Barbados. The programme is made up of invited talks, peer-reviewed paper presentations, technical demonstrations and panels, with workshops held alongside the main conference.
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Papers are selected by a programme committee and presented by their authors.
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The conference has run every year for three decades.
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It aims to bring security researchers together with economists, bankers, implementers and policymakers.
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Several workshops are held in conjunction with the main conference.
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