Professor Owain ap Gwilym

Division: Financial Studies

Location: Room 1.17, Hen Goleg

Telephone: 01248 38 2176

Email: [email protected]

Profile

Professor of Finance

Professor ap Gwilym has published over ninety academic research articles. His work has appeared in many internationally recognised journals such as Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of International Money and Finance, European Financial Management, Financial Analysts Journal, Journal of Futures Markets and Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. Previously he was Professor of Finance at Aberystwyth University until joining Bangor in 2008, and he has also held academic posts at the universities of Southampton and Swansea.

For Accounting & Finance, Bangor Business School was ranked 5th in the UK in The Guardian 2024 university rankings. The School is ranked 6th in the UK for overall student satisfaction in the 2025 Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) for Business & Management.

Owain is a member of the management board of the Institute of European Finance (IEF) at Bangor. Within the IEF, he leads the Responsible Banking research planning group and is a member of the Credit Risk research planning group. Both groups involve productive collaborations among academic staff, doctoral students, emeritus staff, external associate members, regulators and industry.

He has engaged in projects with various organisations including CFA UK, Chartered Banker Institute, Financial Times, Fitch Learning, Fitch Ratings, InteractiveData, Inquire, Moody’s Investors Service, Risk Books and Scottish Widows.

He is an associate editor of the European Journal of Finance and has been editor of World Banking Abstracts. 

Qualifications

PhD (Finance), University of Wales (Swansea).
BSc (Management Science), University of Wales (Swansea).

Roles within Bangor Business School

• Deputy Head of School.
• Link tutor with Bangor University International College (BUIC).

Research Interests

Credit risk and credit ratings, European banking, Investment and financial technology.

Recent research on Open Banking. 

Research Supervision

I have supervised 25 completed PhDs.

Some of my PhD graduates have subsequently held academic posts (up to professorial level) at the universities of Aberdeen, Bangor, Bath, East Anglia, Essex, Heriot-Watt, Newcastle, Reading, Southampton, Strathclyde, Surrey, Swansea and Vlerick, amongst others.

Teaching

Postgraduate Teaching

• Financial Technology (ABJ/ASB-4008/4009).
• FinTech with Project (ABJ/ASB-4013).
• Applied Business Projects (co-ordinator, ABJ/ASB-4904).
• Finance Dissertation (co-ordinator, ABJ/ASB-4909).
• Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Pathway (co-ordinator, ABJ/ASB-4910).
• Core Competencies for Postgraduate Researchers (ASB-4931).
• Current Issues in Business & Management (ASB-4936).

Undergraduate Teaching

• Financial Technology (ASB-3010).

Activities

Associate Editor

Journal of Banking and Finance, 2013-17.

International Review of Financial Analysis, 2011-17.

Editor

World Banking Abstracts, 2022.

PhD external examinations

Universities of Bath, Bradford, Bristol, Cardiff, City University of London, Durham, Edinburgh, Hull, Kings College London, Manchester, Reading, Robert Gordon, Southampton, St Andrews, Swansea, Sydney.

MSc External Examination

Universities of Aston, Exeter, John Moores, Lancaster, Manchester, York.

MBA External Examination

Bayes Business School.

BSc External Examination

University of London (LSE), Bristol, Cardiff.

Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education

Member of the advisory group for revising the Subject Benchmark Statement for Finance, 2025. https://www.qaa.ac.uk/docs/qaa/sbs/subject-benchmark-statement-finance-2025.pdf?sfvrsn=3858de81_4

Other indicators of the impact of research

Research profiled in the Financial Times and the New York Times.

Ranked as one of the top 30 most prolific authors in mathematical finance journals between 1999 and 2016, according to Samitas and Kampouris (2018, International Review of Financial Analysis). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2017.11.006