01 About the Series & Scope
The CFSBR Institutional White Paper Series is a flagship publication channel of CFSBR Intelligence (Wing A: Research & Intelligence). It publishes long-form, policy-relevant white papers that translate rigorous financial-sector analysis into actionable intelligence for regulators, multilateral institutions, development partners, and the private sector in Bangladesh and the broader region.
The series is indexed in Crossref and assigns a registered DOI to every accepted manuscript, ensuring permanent citability, archival integrity, and seamless integration with the global scholarly infrastructure.
Research Tracks
Submissions are invited within the following four institutional tracks. Cross-track submissions are welcome where the analytical question spans more than one track.
1. Market & Sector Intelligence
Structural analyses of banking, capital markets, microfinance, mobile financial services (MFS), and emerging fintech segments, including inclusion, penetration, and concentration dynamics.
2. Policy, Regulation & Supervision
Regulatory architecture, monetary policy transmission, financial-stability surveillance, and supervisory innovation. Comparative perspectives across Bangladesh, South Asia, and emerging markets are encouraged.
3. Strategy, Innovation & Business Models
Fintech strategy, digital transformation, payments-ecosystem design, and the economics of new financial products, with a particular focus on emerging-market applicability.
4. Macroeconomic & Development Finance
Inflation dynamics, external-sector analytics, remittance corridors, climate finance, and the financial-sector dimensions of inclusive growth and human development.
02 Contributor Eligibility
The series welcomes contributions from institutional researchers, policy practitioners, and graduate-level academic contributors operating in or studying the Bangladesh financial sector. Submissions are accepted from the following contributor groups:
- CFSBR Senior & Research Fellows: Internal core researchers developing mandated market intelligence and structural frameworks.
- Associate Members & Research Interns: Junior analysts and team members conducting specialized vertical research under institutional mentorship.
- External Independent Researchers: Academics, undergraduate/graduate researchers, and independent thinkers from external universities working on applied fintech or strategic business models.
- Industry Professionals & Advisors: Financial sector executives, policy experts, and legal consultants contributing market-validated advisory briefs.
All submissions are evaluated solely on the strength of the research, the rigour of the methodology, and the policy or market relevance of the findings. Affiliation is considered as context, not as a determinant of acceptance.
03 Core Publication & Review Policies
No-ID Privacy Mandate
CFSBR does not require, request, or display author national ID numbers, passport numbers, birth registration numbers, or any other government-issued personal identifier. Author identity is established exclusively through verifiable institutional affiliation, ORCID iD, and a signed declaration of authorship.
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Peer Review. All submissions undergo a double-blind institutional review by a panel drawn from CFSBR's Industry Fellows, the Editorial Board, and invited external reviewers. Reviewer comments and editorial decisions are communicated in writing to the corresponding author.
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Originality & Plagiarism Screening. Manuscripts are screened using industry-standard similarity-detection tools. Submissions with a similarity score above the journal's accepted threshold are returned to the author for revision or rejected without further review.
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Authorship & Contributor Disclosures. All listed authors must meet the ICMJE / CRediT authorship criteria. Conflicts of interest, funding sources, and prior dissemination of the work (working papers, conference presentations) must be disclosed in the cover letter.
04 Technical Infrastructure & Author Rights
Authors retain copyright in their work. By default, accepted manuscripts are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence, which maximises dissemination while preserving attribution and integrity. Authors may, on submission, request a more restrictive licence (CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-ND) for documented reasons.
Each published paper receives:
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A registered Crossref DOI with full bibliographic metadata, ORCID linkage where supplied, and a C2PA-signed manifest for content-authenticity verification.
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An open-access full-text PDF, a machine-readable XML deposit, and permanent archiving in CFSBR's institutional repository.
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Indexing and discovery via Crossref, the CFSBR publication portal, and the Internet Archive's scholarly web archive.
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Author retention of rights: authors may deposit the accepted manuscript (AAM) in personal, institutional, or subject repositories under the declared licence without embargo.
05 Submission Workflow
Submissions follow a four-stage institutional workflow. Because the call is open on a rolling basis throughout the year, you may submit at any time; manuscripts enter the review queue in the order they are received. Authors are notified of editorial decisions within 15 business days at each stage.
Prepare Your Manuscript
Download the official manuscript template (linked above). Manuscripts should be 8,000 to 20,000 words including references, use the CFSBR reference style, and include an abstract of 200 to 300 words and 4 to 6 keywords.
Email Your Submission
Send the manuscript (anonymised for double-blind review) together with a separate cover sheet listing the title, all authors, institutional affiliations, ORCID iDs, and disclosures to the editorial office at the address below.
Review & Editorial Decision
Your submission enters the double-blind institutional review queue. The corresponding author receives a structured editorial decision (accept / minor revisions / major revisions / reject) with anonymised reviewer comments.
DOI Registration & Publication
Accepted papers are copy-edited, typeset, assigned a registered DOI, deposited in Crossref, signed with a C2PA manifest, and published under the CFSBR Institutional White Paper Series imprint.
06 Submit Your Manuscript
Ready to contribute? Send your manuscript to the editorial office. Please include the title, all authors with affiliations and ORCID iDs, a 200 to 300-word synopsis, and a statement of originality in the body of the email. Anonymised full manuscripts should be attached in PDF or DOCX format.