Marcello Minenna is the Head of the Quantitative Analysis Unit at CONSOB (the Italian Securities and Exchange Commission). In charge of what Risk magazine addressed as the "quant enforcement", he analyses and develops quantitative models for surveillance and supports the enforcement units in their activities.Marcello has taught mathematical models for finance in several Italian and foreign universities and is presently teaching financial mathematics at the universities of Milano Bicocca and Bocconi. He received his PhD in applied mathematics for social sciences from the State University of Brescia and his MA in mathematics in finance from Columbia University. He is the author of several publications including the bestselling book A Guide to Quantitative Finance also published by Risk Books. Paolo Verzella is a Senior Analyst at the CONSOB Quantitative Analysis Unit. He was Assistant Professor in Mathematical Finance at Milano Bicocca University and has taught courses in mathematics and finance in Italian Universities namely Bocconi and Politecnico of Milano. Paolo received his Phd in Mathematics for Financial markets from Milano Bicocca University.His research interests focus mainly on Numerical Methods for Option Pricing, Optimisation Problems and Applied Harmonic Analysis and also includes more general areas of finance such as Structured Products