Finance and Technology Programme

The Finance and Technology Programme at EPFL is an interdisciplinary research programme at the intersection of finance and technology.

It brings together expertise from finance (including asset pricing, risk management, market microstructure, corporate finance, financing of innovation, game theory) and technology (including data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, computational science, cryptography, information technology).

Its objectives are:

  • To study and develop next-generation applications at the intersection of finance and technology
  • To provide answers to issues and challenges raised by new developments in the financial industry
  • To accelerate research and education in finance drawing on the cross-disciplinary expertise at EPFL.

The Finance and Technology Programme is part of the Swiss Finance Institute @ EPFL within the College of Management of Technology at EPFL. It is associated with the EPFL Center for Digital Trust and benefits from the support of industry partners including Swissquote.

NEWS

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Finance and Technology Programme report 2021-2023

— The Finance and Technology Programme at EPFL has published its annual report for 2021-2023. It includes the highlights of the last three years, events and research overviews. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to our partners for their constant and much appreciated support.

© 2023 EPFL

Decentralized finance & crypto assets

— The latest issue of the C4DT Observer was published following the Finance and Technology conference 2023 on Decentralized Finance (DeFi) in April 2023, with as main theme "Decentralized finance & crypto assets".

© 2023 EPFL

Crypto-assets and tokenization conference 2021

— This year’s Finance and Technology Conference was held for the first time in a hybrid format due to the sanitary situation. For its 12th edition, 50 guests gathered on-site at the SwissTech Convention Center, while hundreds other participants watched the conference online, to discuss crypto-assets and tokenization.

© 2021 EPFL

Finance and Technology conference 2021

— The Finance and Technology Conference 2021 on Crypto-assets and Asset Tokenization​ will be held on November 5th, 2021, at the Swiss Tech Convention Center. This event is organized jointly by the Swiss Finance Institute (SFI@EPFL) and the Center for Digital Trust (C4DT)

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