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.

We are excited to share the call for papers for the 2024 Lancaster-Manchester-Warwick Joint PhD Workshop on Quantitative Finance and Financial Technology.

This is an excellent opportunity for research students in these fields to present their work, get feedback from experts, and network with peers.

The workshop will take place on 13 May 2024 at the University of Warwick - Warwick Business School.

The deadline for paper submission is 15 April 2024. You can find more details below.

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/wbs/subjects/finance/gillmore/phdworkshop2024/

Online lending - or peer-to-peer lending - can be a more profitable asset class than stocks, bonds and real estate, according to the latest research by the Gillmore Centre for Financial Technology.

The research revealed that the newly developed framework of general characteristics-based portfolio policies (GCPP) can achieve an average rate of return of 8.86 to 13.08 per cent each year in an extensive data set of online loans collected from peer-to-peer (P2P) platform LendingClub. This significantly outperforms an equal-weight portfolio of loans.