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Master of IT and Finance

The Master of IT and Finance trains financial engineers with a strong capacity to make use of efficient and powerful computational tools, both hardware and software. Students will learn to model complex instruments – options, derivatives, securities - and contingent risk situations – market, credit and operational – taken from the banking, insurance, and brokerage and clearing environments. They will acquire the skills to create programs that deal with these advanced financial technologies as well as learning the fundamental financial legislations. Typical positions are in front office trading, middle office, finance consulting, risk modelling and management, quant-related software engineering and editing.
Final year internships often lead to job offers in numerous financial corporations and banks such as BNP-Paribas, Société Générale, Calyon, Natexis AM, HSBC, or consulting and software firms such as Bearing Point, Deloitte, Accenture, Logica, Calypso, Sopragroup,…

         

 

Objectives of the Master in IT and Finance

Educating and training engineers who can design, develop and use:

  • Software and hardware   
  • Financial and scientific computation systems
  • Market interface and trading systems

Building expertise in the following financial technologies :

  • Options and derivatives on stocks and interest rates
  • Term structure, Rates and Volatilities surfaces
  • Risk models in market, credit or operations domains
  • Portfolio optimization techniques
  • Applied quantitative and numerical algorithms

Reaching the following target industries:

  • Banking industries
  • Insurance industries
  • Consulting services
  • Internal and external Audit services

Training engineers for IT consultancies in:

  • Financial package sales engineering
  • Financial IT deployment services
  • Trading information systems
  • Regulatory financial reporting

Preparing our graduates for the following positions:

  • Assistant traders and Traders
  • Middle officers
  • Structured products engineers
  • Risk modelling engineers
  • Financial Compliance officers