Name: Quant Summit Europe
Start: 2020-03-11T08:00:00+00:00
End: 2020-03-12T17:00:00+00:00
Location: London

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Thank you to all those who joined us at this year's event!

Quant Summit Europe 2020 brought together industry-renowned quants and data scientists from the world's leading banks, buy-side institutions, and universities to meet, learn and exchange ideas of the latest intelligence around investing, computational techniques, trading and risk management.

If you missed the event, you can access the content from the sessions on demand here!

Key themes discussed in 2020 included:

Machine learning applications
Beyond Libor
ESG investing
Geopolitical risks and market volatility
Quantum supremacy
Factor investing and alpha generations
Algo trading and execution
Volatility & interest rate modelling and pricing
XVA, margin requirements and capital optimisation
Cloud computing

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About MSCI Inc.

MSCI is a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community. With over 45 years of expertise in research, data and technology, we power better investment decisions by enabling clients to understand and analyze key drivers of risk and return and confidently build more effective portfolios. We create industry-leading research-enhanced solutions that clients use to gain insight into and improve transparency across the investment process. To learn more, please visit www.msci.com.

SESAMm is an innovative fintech company specializing in big data and artificial intelligence for investment. Its team builds analytics and investment signals by analyzing billions of web articles and messages using natural language processing and machine learning. With its NLP platform TextReveal and its quantitative data science platform SignalReveal, SESAMm addresses the entire value chain of alpha research. SESAMm’s 40 people team in Paris, New York, Metz, Luxembourg and Tunis work with major hedge funds, banks and asset management clients around the world for both fundamental and quantitative use cases.

Beacon Platform, Inc. is a global financial technology company that helps quantitative developer teams collaborate and scale. Beacon is the only vendor solution for a cloud-based, end-to-end development and production platform, which can meet the stringent security requirements of leading financial institutions. With Beacon’s open architecture, transparent source code, and automated infrastructure solutions, clients can build in-house functionality on a platform that has been proven at some of the largest financial institutions in the world. Beacon was founded in 2014 by the senior technologists who worked with SecDB at Goldman Sachs and created Athena at JP Morgan and Quartz at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Beacon has over 70 employees with offices in the United States, UK, Germany, and Japan and serves clients across the spectrum of financial services - banks, insurance companies, asset managers and trading desks.
www.beacon.io
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The IAQF is a not-for-profit, professional society dedicated to fostering the profession of quantitative finance by providing platforms to discuss cutting-edge and pivotal issues in the field. Founded in 1992, the IAQF is composed of individual academics and practitioners from banks, broker dealers, hedge funds, pension funds, asset managers, technology firms, regulators, accounting, consulting and law firms, and universities across the globe.