The Bloomberg Global Trading Challenge 2024 marked another milestone for ESILV’s Financial Engineering major. A team of fifth-year financial engineering students demonstrated their advanced trading skills, ranking among the top performers globally in Europe and France. Competing in a field of 2,520 teams and over 13,000 participants worldwide, the team achieved: 8th place in Europe […]
In the realm of financial markets, where chaos reigns, and predictions often feel like shots in the dark, there exists a realm where mathematics meets finance, offering a glimmer of order amidst turbulence. Daniele Angelini, a theoretical physicist turned mathematical finance enthusiast, is a PhD Student at La Sapienza University of Rome and a visiting […]
As part of the partnership between the University of Technology, Sydney and ESILV, ten engineering students from UTS were welcomed this summer to create an electronic game around Parisian thematics. For the 2023 edition of this summer school co-organised by the two schools, the summer school with a hybrid format that lasted three weeks: one […]
The financial markets industry is currently looking for fresh talent to develop new products, services, and financial models in line with the economic and technological upheavals: high-frequency trading, blockchains, cryptocurrencies, decentralized finance, and many others. ESILV students get hands-on experience working on financial engineering projects aligning with the latest technology trends and their applications in […]
Matthieu Garcin and Martino Grasselli, professors at ESILV engineering school, have had their research into financial modelling and rough volatility published as an article in a highly-regarded web of science applied mathematics journal. Matthieu Garcin and Martino Grasselli are professors in Financial Engineering at ESILV and members of the Finance Group at De Vinci Research […]
As the ESG wave impacts the global asset management industry, French fintech firms are taking action. Paul Bezault, class of 2004, co-founder and president of AssetSagacity, is one of the entrepreneurs leading the digitization of extra-financial data to make asset management more sustainable. Paul, who graduated from ESILV in 2004, is the head of the […]
Martino Grasselli, a doctor in Quantitative Finance and professor-researcher at ESILV School of Engineering, is the co-author of an article titled “Fast Hybrid Schemes for Fractional Riccati Equations (Rough Is Not so Tough)”, published in the international journal “Mathematics of Operations Research”. Martino Grasselli is the head of the Finance Group at the De Vinci Research Center […]
From stock investing to financial analysis and econometrics, financial engineering has the potential not only to improve spending, saving, and investing decisions for the future but also to make possible the development of new products, services, and markets. At ESILV, financial engineering projects are part of the curriculum that develops graduates who can create innovative solutions for […]
Despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, some engineering internships have taken place over the spring-summer semesters. Even though many businesses have been closed this year due to coronavirus restrictions, numerous ESILV students were able to pursue their work during the pandemic. With all the COVID-19 restrictions, the summer of 2020 could have been a washout for […]
An ESILV professor, Matthieu Garcin, is at the origin of two new studies focusing on the impact of COVID-19 on stock markets and the effects of the crisis on market efficiency. In these studies, Matthieu Garcin and his co-authors propose a new outlook on this financial crisis and an original method, outlining the chronology of […]
As the Covid-19 pandemic rocks markets, ESILV students majoring in Finance try to make sense of the stock market roller coaster. Two teams worked remotely on a value-at-risk project under the guidance of Matthieu Garcin, a lecturer and researcher in Quantitative Finance at ESILV Engineering School. Understanding current market fragilities and developing new strategies for […]
In a recent research paper entitled “ON PROFITABILITY OF NAKAMOTO DOUBLE SPEND“, using new mathematical proofs that he developed, Cyril Grunspan, Director of the Financial Engineering Programme at ESILV Graduate School of Engineering, demonstrates that the bitcoin’s network security is robust enough to require only 1 or 2 confirmations for average transactions. This hypothesis may […]