From classroom to citeable publication - outstanding undergraduate coursework, editorially screened and preserved as permanent, DOI-backed scholarly records.
●About the Series
Institutional Student SeriesC.A.S.E. - the Class Assignment Series · Edition - is a bi-monthly student-edition scholarly series published by the Centre for Fintech and Strategic Business Research.
Every semester, exceptional undergraduate assignments are written, graded, and forgotten. C.A.S.E. exists so that the best of them are not. The series captures end-of-semester work across fintech, strategy, analytics, and applied business research - and gives it a permanent, citable home.
Every accepted piece is reviewed by a faculty-led editorial board, paired with an ORCID iD, registered with a permanent Crossref DOI under prefix 10.67226, and hosted open access on PubPub under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license. Students leave each issue with a citable artifact for a CV, a graduate application, or a personal site.
●Scope of the Series
C.A.S.E. publishes high-quality undergraduate coursework that is evidence-driven, clearly structured, and useful beyond the classroom - across the full CFSBR remit.
40% Fintech and Digital Finance · 30% Strategy and Market Reports · 30% Analytics and Sustainable Finance
Digital payments, MFS adoption and consumer perception surveys, agent banking dynamics, financial inclusion case studies, and modern digital banking infrastructure in Bangladesh.
Industry competitive structure (Porter’s 5 Forces / PESTLE), corporate strategic reviews, brand positioning audits, market entry models, and sector-specific business briefs.
Survey-based empirical assignments, consumer data interpretation, econometric regression outputs, and data-backed managerial recommendations (Excel/SPSS/R/Python).
Climate finance, development economics, impact measurement, and responsible financial systems.
Structured assignment outputs combining business logic, methods, and recommendations for real stakeholders.
●Cross-Disciplinary Inclusivity
While anchored in business and finance, C.A.S.E. actively invites submissions from non-business disciplines - particularly Computer Science (CSE), Software Engineering, Data Science, Economics, and Applied Statistics.
We specifically solicit undergraduate technical and systems-level coursework where computation directly intersects with applied financial systems, enterprise strategy, fraud detection algorithms, algorithmic market intelligence, or consumer data models.
Note: Purely theoretical technical work without an economic, financial, or business application lies outside the current editorial remit.
●Latest Announcements
CFSBR is registered with Crossref under member 56963 with DOI prefix 10.67226. Every accepted C.A.S.E. piece receives a permanent DOI resolving to the PubPub archive record.
The inaugural Editorial Board is being finalised. Faculty advisors from leading Bangladesh universities have been invited; the formal appointment list publishes ahead of Issue 01 submission closure.
The CFSBR Google Form intake is live. The three pre-submit checkpoints — authorship certification, anonymisation, supervisor consent — are enforced on the brand gateway before the form opens.
●Topics Covered
The series spans eight inter-connected disciplines. Accepted submissions are tagged on PubPub so reviewers, advisors, and recruiters can filter by domain directly inside the archive.
●Issue 01 · July 2027
Issue 01 is in editorial review. Accepted records go live here at launch - each card carries the title, authors, DOI, and citation export for a published assignment.
At launch this card holds the abstract, author names, and metadata of the published record.
At launch this card holds the abstract, author names, and metadata of the published record.
At launch this card holds the abstract, author names, and metadata of the published record.
At launch this card holds the abstract, author names, and metadata of the published record.
At launch this card holds the abstract, author names, and metadata of the published record.
At launch this card holds the abstract, author names, and metadata of the published record.
All accepted papers, releases, version history, citations, supplementary files, bibliography, and citation export (RIS / BibTeX / EndNote) are hosted canonically on PubPub. This brand gateway summarises the series and routes you there.
●Submission Guidelines
Undergraduate students (BBA, BSc, BA, or equivalent) from any recognized local or international university.
Single author or co-authored group assignments (Maximum 4 student co-authors).
Length: 1,500 to 4,000 words (including tables and references; excluding abstract).
Abstract: 150 to 250 words with 4 to 6 relevant keywords.
Style Guide: APA 7th Edition citation and referencing format.
Work must have been originally developed, presented, or graded as part of an undergraduate course curriculum, capstone, or term assignment.
In compliance with global privacy standards, student roll numbers, university registration IDs, and personal phone numbers must be removed from the draft.
Author identity is verified strictly through Name, University Affiliation, and ORCID iD.
Manuscripts accepted in English (UK or US spelling). Submission file: DOCX or LaTeX. Graphics: high-resolution PNG, SVG, or vector PDF embedded inline.
Reference list: APA 7th edition. Citation export (RIS / BibTeX / EndNote) handled automatically by the PubPub archive. Review type: faculty-mentor screening plus central CFSBR editorial audit.
●Masthead
The faculty and student editors who steward every submission through review and registration will be announced with the launch of Issue 01. No anonymous gatekeeping: every approval is signed.
Faculty Editor-in-Chief
Associate Faculty Editor
Managing Student Editor
Reviews Editor
The inaugural faculty board comprises advisors from leading universities and business schools across Bangladesh. Formal appointment announcements and individual institutional affiliations will be revealed ahead of Issue 01 submission closure.
●Publication Ethics and Governance
All four pillars below apply to every submission. The full policy text is mirrored on the PubPub archive for version control.
Maximum 15% similarity index on Turnitin (excluding references). Generative AI usage (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) must be transparently disclosed; AI cannot be listed as an author, and core critical insights must be human-authored.
Submissions must carry explicit consent from the course instructor or faculty advisor who supervised or graded the assignment.
Use of non-public company data or internal corporate records requires explicit institutional authorization or complete anonymization/proxy masking.
Authors retain 100% full copyright under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC 4.0 license. Authors grant CFSBR a non-exclusive license to archive and mint a permanent Crossref DOI.
●How it works
Editorial clarity, centralised ingestion. The series owns its branding and hosting; CFSBR runs the metadata pipeline and Crossref deposit.
A faculty advisor performs peer-style screening — originality, methodology, ethics, and supervisor sign-off. CFSBR performs a second-pass editorial audit with version-controlled approvals on the record.
The issue landing page goes live on the C.A.S.E. front-end before archive release.
Title, authors, ORCID, abstract, and references are packaged for ingestion.
CFSBR validates metadata, runs the deposit build, and queues for Crossref.
A permanent DOI is registered and resolves to the PubPub archive record.
DOI prefix 10.67226 · Pattern case.[year].[issue].[serial]
●Policy Library
Authors retain 100% copyright under Creative Commons CC BY-NC 4.0. CFSBR holds a non-exclusive license to archive the manuscript and mint a permanent Crossref DOI on the author’s behalf.
Read license clause →Two-pass screening: faculty advisor review for academic merit, originality, and ethics; CFSBR central audit for Crossref-grade metadata. No anonymous gatekeeping — every approval is signed.
Read workflow →Maximum 15% Turnitin similarity (excluding references). Generative AI use must be disclosed transparently; AI cannot be listed as an author. Non-public corporate data requires explicit institutional authorisation.
Read ethics code →Each author must hold a verified ORCID iD. Student roll numbers, university registration IDs, and personal phone numbers are scrubbed. Identity verified by Name, University Affiliation, and ORCID.
Read author guidelines →●Submission portal · Issue 01
Tick the three mandatory checkpoints below, then continue to the submission form. We handle DOI, ORCID, and open-access hosting after acceptance.
Download Faculty Approval Letter Template (DOCX)Final intake runs on the official CFSBR Google Form. The three checkpoints above enforce authorship, anonymization, and supervisor consent before the form opens.