SMU was named as one of the three top-ranking Asian schools which will be joining 20 Philippine finallists in the final round of the 15th Inter-Collegiate Finance Competition (ICFC) which will be held on 21 October at the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas auditorium. This prestigious finance competition is staged by the Finanacial Executives Institute of the Philippines (FINEX), in partnership with JPMorgan Chase & Co., Asian Institute of Management, CFA Society of the Philippines, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, Isla Lipana & Co. (Philippine member-firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers network), and Educalc.net.