SA-born academic and renowned Wall Street quant, Professor Emanuel Derman from Columbia University delivered a special seminar to AIFMRM students at UCT.

AIFMRM’s annual careers evening highlighted the wide range of opportunities for graduates of the Institute’s three specialised Master’s degrees.

UCT has launched a new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on the rise of fintech and fintech regulation in emerging markets that will broaden the number of people able to access knowledge and expertise in this fast-growing new field.

The African Institute of Financial Markets and Risk Management (AIFMRM), a postgraduate institute in the Faculty of Commerce at the University of Cape Town (UCT), hosted two pioneering events in July – the much anticipated fifth edition of the annual Financial Mathematics Team Challenge, and a new, intensive research collaboration called, The Factory.

UCT’s African Institute of Financial Markets and Risk Management (AIFMRM) has pioneered a programme that challenges international mathematicians to work with young South African researchers to produce academic papers for publication in leading scientific journals over an intensive ten-day period.

Some of the best and brightest financial mathematics students from across the globe met in Cape Town in July to compete in the annual AIFMRM Financial Mathematics Team Challenge – a prestigious event that uses competitive and collaborative research to tackle the finance industry’s most pressing questions.