Swiss Finance Institute

The Swiss Finance Institute (SFI) is a private foundation that promotes research and teaching in banking and finance in Switzerland. It was created in January 2006 on the initiative of the Swiss Bankers Association, with support from the Swiss banking and finance community, SWX, the Swiss Confederation, the Swiss National Science Foundation and several universities. It brought together FAME, founded in 1996, and the Swiss Banking School, founded in 1987.

SFI works with eight partner universities: EPFL, ETH Zurich, USI and the universities of Basel, Geneva, Lausanne, St.Gallen and Zurich. In 2025 they counted about 100 SFI faculty members. The institute runs a PhD programme, which had 99 active students in January 2025, and offers Master Classes for finance professionals. In 2025 it held 37 of them with 1,201 participants.

SFI has offices in Zurich and Geneva. Besides research seminars and knowledge-exchange events, it holds an Annual Meeting and conferences with partners such as Swiss Sustainable Finance.