Academic
Baruch, Princeton cement duopoly in 2026 Quant Master’s Guide
Columbia jumps to third place, ETH-UZH tops European rivals
Quant of the year: Julien Guyon
Risk Awards 2025: Volatility modeller par excellence (and football fan) achieved breakthrough with joint calibration of S&P and Vix options
The curious case of the revealing orders
Oxford academics have found evidence pointing to collusion on a European exchange, but market-makers aren’t wholly convinced
Dutch regulator in new push on algo manipulation
AFM teams up with Oxford Uni academics to develop data models that will identify “harmful” activity in automated trading
Digging deeper into deep hedging
Dynamic techniques and GenAI simulated data can push the limits of deep hedging even further, as derivatives guru John Hull and colleagues explain
The chatbot and the quant: GPT shakes finance education
With smarter large language models, quant grads risk turning into AI-assisted slackers, writes Gordon Lee
Brains beat backtests in a tough year for FIA indexes
Four of the top 10 benchmarks in 2022 were based on the economic theories of prominent academics
Wanted: radical ideas for inflation modelling
Hedge funds echo Mervyn King’s calls for a new approach to inflation modelling post-2022 crisis
Are decentralised exchanges the future for trading?
Success of blockchain venues has implications even beyond crypto
No link between geopolitical risk signals and returns – hedge fund
Gauges of geopolitical risk are better at predicting volatility than equity returns, research from XAI finds
Earnings call analysis 2.0 goes beyond good and bad words
Quants develop new ways to extract signals from media-savvy chief executives and their financial statements
Banks strive for machine learning at quantum speed
Embryonic work on quantum neural networks raises hope of faster, more accurate models
Is it worth doing a quant master’s degree?
UBS’s Gordon Lee – veteran quant and grad student supervisor – asks the hard question
Princeton, Baruch and Berkeley top for quant master’s degrees
Eight of 10 leading schools for quantitative finance programmes are based in US, latest rankings show
Neural networks show fewer false positives on bad loans – study
Machine learning method edges regression techniques in linking nonlinearities among delinquent borrowers
An old model can shed new light on how flows shape prices
Market microstructure theory may also explain long-term patterns in stock markets
Quant grad conveyor belt stalls as banks retrench
Jobs market is long quant graduates, short vacancies – but hiring freeze shows signs of thawing
Rough volatility’s steampunk vision of future finance
Some of the trickiest puzzles in finance could be solved by blending old and new technologies
A step closer to the perfect volatility model
Research on ‘rough volatility’ gives fresh insight into financial fluctuations, quant expert explains
NYU’s Epstein on fear and complacency in the age of Covid
Pioneer of agent-based models warns of virus resurgence akin to 1918 Spanish flu
Quant finance courses tested by Covid’s echoing classrooms
Universities fret over drop in international students and demands of online learning