PhD students within the Accounting & Finance Department address academically interesting and practical contemporary issues in Finance and Banking. Our Finance scholars’ interest include derivatives pricing and risk management, financial econometrics, international banking, financial regulation, corporate finance and asset pricing and real-estate modelling. PhD students may join the Centre for Quantitative Finance, which researches contemporary issues in financial markets requiring a quantitative approach. The main role of the centre is to carry out research that fills the gap between academia and current problems faced by the industry, whether in conducting comparative studies on pricing and risk management methodologies, or designing improved financial products that can serve the wider community better, or simply being the first stop for policy makers, hedge funds or finance houses where they could commission quantitative studies on topics they do not have expertise on.Professional recognition:Kent Business School is a member of the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) and the Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS) and the Kent MBA is an Association of MBAs (AMBA) accredited programme.In addition, KBS has accredited programmes with the following professional bodies:The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT)The Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS)The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM)The Chartered Management Institute (CMI)The Professional Risk Managers’ International Association (PRMIA)The Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP)The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)CFA InstituteKBS is a signatory of the United Nation's Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), which provides a global network for academic institutions to advance corporate sustainability and social responsibility.