The research activities of OCCF have now been merged into the Mathematical and Computational Finance Group.

Unique Finance Research Centre launched by The Chief Secretary to the Treasury and The Deputy Governor of the Bank of England

An unique Centre for Computational Finance based at Oxford University, known as OCCF, was launched by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury and the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, on Wednesday 10 October 2001. Designed to support the world's financial markets through development of mathematical theory, organisations will be able to benefit from OCCF's capacity to analyse real-time data and study the complexity of the dynamics emerging from today's markets. This will facilitate faster reaction to extreme market events, such as predicting and dealing with market crashes, and evaluating all forms of operational risk.

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The launch event was held in the Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Oxford with the following agenda:

• Ruth Deech, Pro Vice Chancellor (Chair)
• David Clementi, Deputy Governor, Bank of England
• Neil Johnson, Co-Director OCCF
• Greg Stroud, Managing Director, Sun UK
• Pierre Pourquery, Head of Risk, EMEA, IBM
• Brian Ford, Director, NAG
• Andrew Smith, Chief Secretary to the Treasury