The Department of Finance at the University of Zurich (founded in 1968 as Swiss Banking Institute) has a broad expertise in its four core areas of Banking, Corporate Finance, Financial Economics and Quantitative Finance. We foster interdisciplinary in research and teaching. The department provides a knowledge transfer at the highest level and as such has also designed an executive teaching program that caters to the needs of finance professionals. With 20 professors and more than 130 employees, the Department of Finance is a leading finance group in the German-speaking part of Europe.