Financial Mathematics

Cardiff University

To manage the complex financial sector, banks and financial institutions need talented mathematicians who are fluent in the language of finance.

This course will provide you with a solid foundation in mathematics, whilst also developing knowledge and skills that are essential for jobs in the finance industry, including an understanding of modern financial markets, institutions, investments and policies.

You will focus on issues and topics relevant to the computational and market design side of contemporary finance such as:

• Complex Systems
• Trading (in particular high-frequency trading)
• Fund Management
• Analytics
• Fund Management
• Analyticsll also have the opportunity to complete a year working in industry or studying at a university abroad between year two and three. You don’t need to commit to either of these options until the start of your second year, so there’s plenty of time to decide what you would like to do.

Career prospects

You can use your BSc in Financial Mathematics as a pathway to the workforce where you may meet our alumni working in finance, government, marketing or even agriculture. Or, you might choose to widen your career options to include a range of related fields by completing postgraduate studies in mathematics, the science, computing or engineering.