The 21st Quant Finance Conference 2025
PALERMO
Maurizio Garro, CFO and Head of Investors at Sport Trading Life, was a key contributor to the 21st Quantitative Finance Conference held in Palermo in September 2025. In this prestigious international setting, which gathers the world’s leading experts in quantitative finance, Garro presented the “Sports Trading Playbook,” an innovative framework that applies the rigor of financial mathematics to sports markets.
His intervention demonstrated how the use of advanced models—including Bayesian updating, the Kelly Criterion, and machine learning—allows the volatility of odds to be transformed into a systematic investment opportunity. By demonstrating the scalability of these strategies, Maurizio Garro highlighted how sports trading is evolving from a niche into a true institutional asset class, capable of generating returns uncorrelated with traditional markets.