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Quantitative Finance consulting

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Over 15 years financial engineering experience in providing full-range solutions for financial modeling needs.

Typical projects are: quantitative research, modeling, developing pricing-, structuring- and optimization-tools, model validation, software development, and project management.

Past Client Projects

Validation of Treasury and Trading Pricing and Risk Management Models and System

Validation of Treasury and Trading Pricing and Risk Management Models and System

January 20th, 2012

This is an interim project I did in the period June 2011- Jan 2012 at a Dutch Bank. The implement[...]

Quantitative Strategic Modeling – Regulatory Impact Assessment

Quantitative Strategic Modeling – Regulatory Impact Assessment

January 12th, 2012

This was a project I did in the period September 2011 - January 2012 European- and State regulati[...]

An Internally Consistent Interpolation Method for Yield Curves

An Internally Consistent Interpolation Method for Yield Curves

November 11th, 2011

[latexpage] Here we present a new yield curve interpolation method, one that's based on conditionin[...]

Model Validation: Production Optimization

Model Validation: Production Optimization

May 31st, 2011

A Dutch energy firm has asked us to run a model validation. The model is designed to optimize the e[...]

Asset Optimization for a water utility

Asset Optimization for a water utility

May 29th, 2011

This project involved cost optimization the water transport- and purification process. We looked at[...]

Our Clients

Most of our clients reside in Europe, but we also occasionally work on projects remotely outside Europe.

  • Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation
  • Vattenfall One of Europe’s leading energy companies, supplier of electricity and heat
  • Enel is the largest electronic operator in Italy and the second largest utility quoted in Europe for established expertise.
  • Rabobank is an international financial services provider and has approximately 59,000 employees (in FTEs), who serve about 10 million customers in 48 countries.
  • AT Bank formed in 1994 and is since 2001 part of the Russian Alfa-Bank Group, the largest private commercial bank in the Russian Federation.
  • Delta delivers energy, infrastructure, environmental- and digital services -internet, phone, radio, tv- and has 3.000 employees.
  • Nidera is an international trading and agribusiness company with offices in 22 countries.
  • Kyos Consulting is a specialized consultancy firm that uses its deep understanding of energy markets in advisory services modeling and training.

Skills

Financial Engineering

  • Stochastic modeling of complex price behavior: Yield models, non-linear stochastic dynamical systems.
  • Derivative pricing models: Finite Difference, Monte Carlo, Stochastic optimization
  • Model validation
  • Algorithmic trading strategies: backtesting, optimization
  • Micro market modeling
  • Volatility arbitrage strategies
  • Credit Risk Modeling & Advisory
  • Improving Monte Carlo Engines: low-discrepancy
  • Stochastic Optimization for Exotic option pricing, asset optimization

Energy & Commodity Modeling

  • Gas & Electricity spot model
  • Development of Commodity Forward curves models
  • Weather modeling: stochastic models and forward curves for temperature, wind-speed, light intensity
  • Load and production forecasting
  • Real Options: Power plant valuation and dispatching
  • Wind generation valuation and the impact on markets
  • Gas storage optimization and valuation
  • Hydro storage project valuation
  • Strategic investment advice
  • Energy subsidy structuring
  • Development of commodity proxy hedging strategies for illiquid products

Software Development

  • C++, STL, Templates: Windows / Unix, Boost libraries
  • Python, Perl, sh
  • Scientific: Matlab, R project, MEX addins , BLAS / Lapack
  • Office: Excel, VBA, Excel C++ xll addins
  • Web development: Javascript (JQuery, Ajax, Comet), Flash / FLEX, PHP, Python, SVG, XML, XSL,

IT skills

  • Orderouting &amp Datafeeds: FIX Protocol, Euronext UTP, RTS, Interactive Brokers, Oanda
  • Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Access
  • Operating Systems: Linux, Windows, OSX