Recent years have seen an explosion in the application of quantitative methods and financial engineering, while new theoretical developments are challenging traditional perspectives. Quantitative Finance provides an interdisciplinary forum that encourages the convergence and synthesis of these points of view. The following application areas will be among those covered: agent-based modelling, asset-liability modelling, behavioural finance, bounded rationality, derivatives pricing and hedging, corporate finance, corporate valuation, evolutionary game theory, experimental finance, extreme risks and insurance, financial econometrics, financial engineering, learning and adaptation, new approaches to market prediction, market anomalies, market dynamics, operational risk modelling, portfolio management, price formation, risk management, trading systems and web-based financial services.