Launch of the Canada Research Chair in Finance and Technology 

HEC Montréal has launched the Canada Research Chair in Finance and Technology, which will be held by Professor Vincent Grégoire. 

This new Chair is dedicated to advancing knowledge at the intersection of finance and technology, with a focus on the challenges and opportunities posed by technological advances for financial markets. It will do so by adopting a multidisciplinary approach.

The Chair is structured around four themes:

1. Machine learning methods and big data in financial research – exploring new methods of processing and analyzing large amounts of financial data, including textual data.
2. Impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on financial systems – examining the role of AI in shaping these markets by influencing information dissemination, trading behaviour and market efficiency.
3. Enhancing the cyber resilience of financial markets – analyzing the growing threat of cyber-attacks by evaluating the factors that influence market resilience and proposing risk mitigation strategies.
4. High frequency and algorithmic trading – studying the effects of these two types of trading on market quality.

About Vincent Grégoire

Vincent Grégoire holds a PhD in Finance from the University of British Columbia, as well as an MSc in Financial Engineering and an MSc in Electrical Engineering from Université Laval and has been a professor in HEC Montréal’s Department of Finance since 2018. He is also a researcher affiliated with IVADO and the Multidisciplinary Institute for Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience.

His research focuses on information economics, market microstructure, machine learning and cybersecurity in finance, and has been published in the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and the Journal of Accounting Research.

In 2022, he received the Chenelière Éducation/Gaëtan-Morin Award from the School in recognition of the excellence of his scientific and professional publications, and also the Best Paper Award in Asset Pricing from The Northern Finance Association for the article “Noisy FOMC Returns”, co-authored with Olivier Boguth (Arizona State University) and Charles Martineau (University of Toronto).