India, June 20 -- What actuaries are to insurance and engineers to infrastructure, quants are to financial markets-architects of the sophisticated mathematical models that drive modern finance. From optimising trading algorithms to managing risk and predicting market shifts, quantitative professionals are the hidden force behind financial innovation.

Over the past few decades, the quant revolution has transformed finance from an intuition-led industry into one powered by data, algorithms and computational rigor. Today, with the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning and the explosion of data, quantitative finance is more central than ever for pricing financial derivatives and risk management.

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