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The CFM-IMPERIAL INSTITUTE OF QUANTITATIVE FINANCE was established in 2014 through a partnership between Imperial College’s Mathematical Finance Group and Capital Fund Management (CFM), with the objective of promoting interdisciplinary research focusing on understanding financial market complexity and quantitative modelling and management of financial risks. The Institute’s interdisciplinary research team aims at exploring innovative solutions to complex problems in the risk management and regulation of financial markets and training the next generation of researchers and risk managers, through a unique collaboration between academics and practitioners.

CFM is a quantitative, fully systematic investment firm founded in 1991, based in Paris with offices in London, New York and Tokyo. The firm focuses on developing trading strategies based on a global and quantitative approach to financial markets. CFM’s methodology relies on the in-depth statistical analysis of terabytes of financial data for asset allocation, trading decisions and order execution. CFM’s group entities are registered with the CFTC, the SEC, the AMF in France, the Japanese FSA and the UK FCA.

The CFM-ENS Chair on Data Science was founded in 2016 through a partnership between Capital Fund Management and Ecole Normale Superieure. The aim of the chair is to look at data science in a broad sense with the goal of bringing together researchers from diverse backgrounds (including mathematics, computer science, physics, chemistry and neuroscience) but with a common interest in dealing with large scale or high dimensional data.

INSTADEEP Ltd is a startup offering a host of AI solutions for industrial applications, ranging from optimized pattern-recognition, GPU-accelerated insights, to self-learning decision making systems.