Warwick Business School and its Gillmore Centre for Financial Technology has joined forces with West Midlands body SuperTech to launch a roadmap for the tech sector that aims to deliver thousands of jobs and add £1.5 billion to the regional economy over the next 10 years.

Preparations for a digital pound are advancing apace, with the Bank of England and HM Treasury thinking it likely that, in some form, a central bank digital currency will need to be issued in the future. Are they right? If so, what form should a digital Pound take? Join SPE members to hear from – and challenge – a panel of experts on this hot topic on May 30th.

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.