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NEW: CAS ETH in Machine Learning in Finance and Insurance

Application for Cohort 2025 opens Nov 1, 2024 

Learn more about the new CAS in Machine Learning offered at the Department of Mathematics at ETH Zurich.

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QRT - Joins the Hub as Partner

Qube Research Technologies joins the FinsureTech Hub as Silver Partner

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Current Lectures in Spring 2024

Decentralized Finance (MSc): DLT is emerging for a disruption of our current financial infrastructure. As such, Blockchain Finance seeks to combine open-source, peer to peer building blocks into sophisticated products using blockchain technology, seeking to disintermediate and decentralize the traditional financial service industry. This lecture will combine insights on DLT with recent applications from finance. Guest Speakers from Industry join the sessions as well. More Details

 

New Partnership: Columbia University, NUS & ETH FinsureTech Hub

Strategic Partnership for "Advancements in Digital Finance and Technologies"  together with Columbia's Center for Digital Finance and Technologies and National University Siganpore's Asian Institute of Digital Finance. 

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@Students: Apply for a Master Thesis Project!

Your are looking for a Master Thesis topic or a project work in the area of finsuretech? Have a look at the list of open projects. 

@Corporates: Become a Partner of the Hub

The FinsureTech Hub bridges the gap between academia and industry across emerging areas such as machine learning, cyber security, distributed ledger technology, digital currencies and quantum computing. Team up with us on joint projects, events and education. Details here

Join the ETH FinsureTech Hub on Social Media

The FinsureTech Hub is now on LinkedIn. Follow the Hub to be informed about activtiies, events and education initiatives. 

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Upcoming: "Driving Successful (Gen)AI Transformation: Insights from Financial Services"

Karin Tremp, Boston Consulting Group and Philippe Kipfer, Julius Bär give insights into the transformative potential of (Gen)AI in Financial Services. You’ll have the opportunity to learn from top industry professionals how (Gen)AI is reshaping banking, insurance, and health insurance and how to navigate AI transformations and overcome challenges, while participating in a hands-on activity designed to spark innovative ideas.

Details and Registration

 

Completed: First Master Class on "Climate Risk and Beyond"

Knut Kjaer, Founding Director of the Norwegian Pension Fund talked about "Treating uncertainty in modeling climate-related financial risk" on Day 1. 

This 4-Day Master Class provided an understanding of the fundamentals of climate change and climate risk modelling (Day 1), the interconnectedness of economy, society, and environment (Day 2), on how to address environmental factors in investments, banking and insurance activities (Day 3), tech-driven sustainability and innovations to foster sustainable finance (Day 4). 

More Information on our Master Classes

 

Past Event: July 1, 2024: Columbia - ETH - NUS FinsureTech Conference

Together with Asian Institute for Digital Finance @NUS and Center for Digital Finance @Columbia University we held the second "Columbia - ETH - NUS FinsureTech Conference" on July 1, 2024 at ETH Zurich. 

Speakers: 

  • Ke-​Wei Huang, NUS: "Adapting Deep Survival Analysis for Enhanced Financial Risk Predictions"
  • Ying Chen, NUS: "Leveraging Quantum Algorithms for Large-​Scale Dynamic Portfolio Optimization with Market Frictions"
  • Agostino Capponi, Columbia: "The Microstructure of Decentralized Exchanges"
  • Urban Ulrych, ETH Zurich: "Kernel Conditional Factor Models"
  • Enrique Alfonseca, Google Zurich: "Large Language Models and Web Search: History and Applications"
  • Josef Teichmann, ETH Zurich: "Large Language Models speak Finance: A Perspective on Foundations"
  • PhD Session 

 

Impressions

Past Event: May 3, 2024: From Ideas to Growth - Ventures in DLT

Gemma Green talked about 3 ways young founders can become more effective in following up on their ideas. 

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