For the past year-and-a-half, AIFMRM graduate Bandile Mbele has been working as a Fixed Income Strat in Morgan Stanley’s institutional securities group at their headquarters in New York. He lives in an apartment in Hell’s Kitchen and loves Italian pasta takeaway for dinner. While, in many ways, he is living the dream now, the journey has not been an easy one.

Over the past two years, banking, investment and financial institutions have shown significant interest in machine learning (ML) possibilities, specifically regarding quantitative finance.

It was only once he had completed his MCom in Risk Management of Financial Markets at AIFMRM that Mohapi Mohlamonyane really saw his career taking off in the direction he wanted it to – into a world where the work is stimulating and exciting, and each day brings new challenges.

When Ralph Rudd looked for a job after completing his PhD at UCT, there were many opportunities and possibilities, but he was finally drawn to Iceland and the position of Assistant Professor in Financial Engineering at Reykjavik University.

An adjunct professor from the African Institute of Financial Markets and Risk Management (AIFMRM) has collaborated with other academics on a novel and easily-implementable way for banks and financial institutions to step up their role in driving sustainable finance and combating climate change.