A team of Banking majors (Rudolf Bruchánik, Oliver Kamenský, Jakub Viater, and Marek Pavlov) from the EUBA’s Faculty of National Economy under supervision of Assoc. Prof. Jana Kotlebová, PhD. From the Department of Banking and International Finance tested their knowledge again at the 15th Rotman International Trading Competition held in Toronto, Canada between February 22 and 24, 2018.
In a strong international competition of 52 renowned universities specialising in quantitative finance and mathematical programming from all around the world they ranked 7th in S&P Global Quantitative Outcry in futures index trading, 10th in Matlab Volatility Trading in options ETF volatility trading which replicate the stock index, and 14th in Fixed Income corporate and government bonds portfolio management. The students tried their hand at also in crude oil spot and futures trading within BP Commodities, liquidity risk management in ETF trading within Flow Traders ETF as well as in programming their own trading algorithm using the Excel VBA in Schonfeld Algorithmic Trading. Overall they ranked 18th.
Compared to the last year when they won 14th place in S&P Global Credit Risk and ranked overall 32nd this year’s results represent a significant qualitative leap forward. This year our students ranked 3rd among the European universities lagging behind the LUISS Guido Carli University of Rome (Italy), and University of Cambridge (UK), and in overall ranking they left behind teams from such universities as Princeton University (USA), City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China), University College London (UK).
Congratulations to our students on excellent results. We hope this experience will encourage also other students to achieve higher professional goals.
