Ram Gopal discusses how at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, tens of thousands of Britons found themselves racing against the clock to complete their home purchases, as a deadline loomed for the expiration of a property tax relief measure. Offering savings of up to £15,000, the relief had spurred a surge in transactions that overwhelmed estate agents, surveyors, and lawyers involved in the cumbersome process of property transactions.

Congrats to Szymon Kubiak for leading the team to victory, with a cutting-edge #GenAI approach in the competition *Market Scenario Generator Hackathon: From Stability to Storms* organised by Hao Ni and Jiajie Tao of UCL with support from EPSRC and The Alan Turing Institute.

Roman Kozhan, Moris Strub and Zhengge Zhou collaborated with Lancaster and Manchester to host a joint PhD workshop on Quantitative Finance and Financial Technology with great success. Topics ranged from Blockchain Technology, AI , Open Baking and Financial Econometrics.