Growing Knowledge Capital for the Swiss Financial Marketplace
With support from its founders—the Swiss banking industry, the Swiss Confederation, and leading Swiss universities— the Swiss Finance Institute (SFI) competitively promotes world-class research and teaching in banking and finance in Switzerland. By combining academic excellence with practical experience SFI contributes to the strengthening of the Swiss financial center.
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We are the only national center uniting, under one roof, world-class researchers in eight partner universities from across Switzerland:
- the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
- the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich)
- the Università della Svizzera italiana
- the University of Basel
- the University of Geneva
- the University of Lausanne
- the University of St.Gallen
- the University of Zurich
SFI offers something that cannot be found elsewhere: an opportunity for academics and practitioners to move beyond current practice, exchanging the knowledge and expertise that will keep Switzerland at the top of banking and finance.
- SFI acts as a magnet for talent, attracting top finance students and professors to Switzerland.
- SFI fosters collaboration between top researchers.
- SFI faculty teach bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD programs at SFI’s eight partner universities.
- SFI PhD graduates work in the financial sector and for top universities around the world.
- SFI educates senior finance professionals in Switzerland.