Analistas Financieros Internacionales and the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM) present the third Financial Engineering Summer School. The school aims to bring together practitioners and academics working in the area of quantitative finance to learn about issues of current interest from some of the world's foremost experts.

The school is sponsored by Bolsa de Madrid, Borsa de Barcelona, imath, Afi and CRM. It alternates between Madrid and Barcelona, Spain’s two principal financial centres, and will be held this year at the Bolsa de Madrid.

This year's programme will consist of four short courses, of 4 ½ hours each, on the topics of credit and risk:

• Financial risk and financial crises
  Professor Jon Danielsson, London School of Economics
• Traded credit and the new Basel market risk framework
  Dr. Christopher Finger, RiskMetrics Group
• Credit Trading: Pricing, Strategies and Risk Management
  Dr. Richard Martin, MAN Group
• Enterprise Risk Management
  Professor Alexander McNeil, Heriot-Watt University