The Swiss Finance Institute @ EPFL has been created to foster research in finance and to develop a strong offering of programs in finance and financial engineering at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. The focus is on the areas within finance that have a natural interaction with mathematics, statistics, engineering, and science, namely, mathematical finance, financial econometrics, and entrepreneurial finance.
SFI teaching programs at EPFL
The Swiss Finance Institute @ EPFL participates in serveral teaching programs:
- The Master in Financial Engineering at EPFL, which is a highly selective 2-year master program
- The Minor in Financial Engineering
- The Doctoral Program in Finance, which is organized jointly with the Swiss Finance Institute and the Universities of Geneva and Lausanne.
- Executive Education: A short course “Leading with Technology in Finance”
Partnership & outreach
Through its partnership with the Swiss Finance Institute (SFI), EPFL helps advance excellence in finance research, education, and industry outreach in Switzerland. SFI@EPFL faculty members are strongly represented in SFI’s Master Class program, regularly sharing their expertise with financial professionals across Switzerland, while also contributing to selected Knowledge Exchange Seminars that foster dialogue between academia and industry.
Support
The Swiss Finance Institute @ EPFL benefits from the institutional support of the Swiss Finance Institute, a private foundation created in 2006 by Switzerland’s banking and finance community in cooperation with leading Swiss universities, and from Swissquote, who endowed the Swissquote Chair in Quantitative Finance.
UPCOMING EVENTS
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Signaling with debt currency choice
Journal of Financial Economics. 2026. Vol. 185, p. 104355. DOI : 10.1016/j.jfineco.2026.104355.The Global Rise of Index-Based Ownership of Firms
2026