The Quant / Financial Engineering Podcast
Created by Professor Patrick Zoro, this podcast explores the latest trends in data analytics, asset management, blockchain, and risk management. It is associated with the Master of Financial Engineering program at Lehigh University.
Episodes
Accuracy of Implied Volatility
Implied volatility (IV). IV is often treated as the market’s best estimate of future uncertainty and risk. But just how accurate is it in predicting actual future price variation? Brett Friedman, Winhall Risk Analytics/OptionMetrics contributor, looks SPX and historical VIX data to calculate forward-looking volatility risk premium (VRP) for insights,
https://optionmetrics.com/blog/how-accurate-is
HYPERSCALER VIEW WITH
talk with Mr. Murphy John, the Chief Growth Officer at StorX Network.
Financial Planning 101
Stan Leong is the author of Engineering Your Finances: The Tech
Professional’s Guide to Strategic Wealth Building and a Private Wealth
Advisor who helps engineers and executives design the financial
future they want. With his background as a former engineer, Stan
brings technical precision and relatable insight to financial planning,
connecting with clients in ways other advisors often can’t.
Nik
Hedgineer,Hedge Funds and AI
Part 1 explores the company https://www.hedgineer.io which " transforms hedge funds and asset managers into AI enabled investors with world class technology".
Part 2 looks into the future of AI from the educational perspective.
Volatility Arbitrage
Tyler is a Master’s in Financial Engineering student graduating in 1 month. For over a year, he has been exploring volatility arbitrage and option factors with help from a sponsor at a leading hedge fund.
Listen to Tyler discuss his journey on this installment of The Quant/Financial Engineer podcast.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerrodabaugh
Realized Volatility Modeling: FX
I speak with https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanyaradzwa-leigh-masunga/ on her latest projects sponsored by Hedge Fund Mgr
Falling Knives with Prince Owusu-Ansah (MFE)
Falling Knives with Prince Owusu-Ansah (MFE) by Patrick J Zoro
Hedge Fund Manager and AI
Hedge Fund Manager and AI by Patrick J Zoro
Blockchain Talk with Rehoboth Research
https://www.linkedin.com/company/rehoboth-research/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/besa-masaiti/
The Crypto Landscape
The Crypto Landscape by Patrick J Zoro
Options Primer
Nikhil Jaisinghani's career in finance began a-traditionally. Leaving college with a degree in math and physics, he joined a mathematical consulting company working for the DOD and FAA. He then left the US to join the Peace Corps as a volunteer math teacher in rural Nepal. Hooked on adventure, he then taught in South India, completed a degree in international economics at Johns Hopkins, and joined
Portfolio Talks with Alexis Investment Partners
Portfolio Talks with Alexis Investment Partners by Patrick J Zoro
Gamma Capture Intraday Volatility
Louis Pellathy is a commodity broker with a background in mathematics and data analytics. He has developed trading and price curve models for several leading Inter Dealer Brokers. He currently trades his own personal account which focuses on S&P 500 0-DTE options.
Gamma Capture Intraday Volatility
https://gammacapture.com/
Avaliable on Platforms
NinjaTrader: https://ninjatrader.com
TradingView
CRYPTOSAZZ
Crypto SAZZ is an independent publication launched in April 2025 by Gurraj Sangha
https://www.cryptosazz.com/about/
International Student Networking for Quant Jobs in the U.S
In this insightful episode, I sit down with Edson Bope, a master’s student from Zimbabwe studying Financial Engineering in Pennsylvania, who shares his journey navigating the competitive U.S. job market in search of quantitative finance roles.
Edson opens up about the unique challenges international students face, from visa constraints to cultural differences in networking. He talks about his exp
Orchid (The A.I. Asset Management Firm)
Zuber Seth and I discussed his firm (Orchid) out of his London office. The discussion starts with Zuber's background, his foray into the hedge fund world, barista coffee, a chance accouter, lots of networking, a Math degree, London, #Qatar, a prince, #seedfunding and ultimately the creation of this AI firm aimed at #HedgeFunds to create an Autonomous analyst in order to free their time in generati
Stock Market Turmoil Analysis
As the market is heading down, we bring in Aidan Oster who is top ranked amongst 500+ entrants in the 2025 United States Investing Championship to give us his views on the stock market. https://www.linkedin.com/in/aidan-oster/
The Trump Tariffs (part 2)
Professor Salas comes back to the podcast to provide an update on the "Trump" Tariffs. Salas is the author of peer reviewed research on Tariffs. The discussion starts with the previous Trump Tariffs on China, then the impending Tariffs on China, Mexico and Canada are addressed in a lively discussion.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-z-08bb5b5a/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/lehigh-mast
The Impending Tariffs on China-Mexico-Canada
Discussion with Professor Salas on the impending "Trump" Tariffs. Salas is the author of peer reviewed research on Tariffs. The discussion starts with the previous Trump Tariffs on China, then the impending Tariffs on China, Mexico and Canada are addressed in a lively discussion.
Accounting and AI
Professor Zoro speaks with the CEO of Safebooks AI about accounting and AI.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-z-08bb5b5a/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/lehigh-master-in-financial-engineering/
Safebooks.ai is the first AI-powered financial data governance platform built for finance teams who demand accuracy, trust, and speed. It seamlessly integrates with all systems in the Office of the C
Corporate Material Event Sequences with LLMs
Professor zoro’s guests discussed the project they have been working on since 2024: Corporate Material Event Sequences with LLMs3 and associated sentiment scores (Historical and Real-Time with Forecasts).
https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-z-08bb5b5a/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/lehigh-master-in-financial-engineering/
Lehigh MFEs shared their experience and views on LLMs and Deepseek wit
What about DeepSeek R1 ?
3 Lehigh MFEs shared their experience and views on LLMs and Deepseek with Professor Zoro who manages Lehigh MFE program: https://business.lehigh.edu/academics/graduate/masters-programs/ms-financial-engineering
Fathmat Bakayoko is a MFE, working on extracting insights from SEC 8-K filings using language models and exploring crypto compliance. www.linkedin.com/in/fathmat-samira-bakayoko-30715024a.
Bayesian Neural Networks
Edris Loftpouri MFE /24 discusses his interest on the implementation of Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs) for macroeconomic forecasting. He also touches on Castastrophe Modeling
https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-z-08bb5b5a/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/lehigh-master-in-financial-engineering/
This project develops a Bayesian Neural Network (BNN) for macroeconomic forecasting, using stochast
Gamma Capture
The podcast welcomes Rob Navin, Founder of Real Time Risk Systems to discuss his new method of estimated a realized volatility based on P&L from a constant gamma position. This is a deep dive quant discussion on Option strategies. Estifanos Shekour, MFE also join the podcast and share his experience on designing option strategies.
Link to Discussion Article
https://optionstree.substack.com/p/gam
The Vix of August with Garrett DiSimone, PhD
Professor Zoro speaks with Garrettt DeSimone about Options. Various aspects of the Option environment are discussed including OptionMetrics, The Vix on August 5th, 2024, Blogs by Garrett
Garret is Head of Quant Research at OptionMetrics
www.linkedin.com/in/garrett-desim…e-ph-d-4ab7ba68/
www.reuters.com/business/media-te…oubts-2023-07-28/
OptionMetrics
optionmetrics.com
www.businesswire.com/new
The Inverted Yield Curve that was
Professor Zoro speaks with Joseph Furlong about the inverted Yield Curve and its implications. They get to talk about the $35 trillion national debt, the stock market and other salient topics. With over three decades of dedicated experience in banking, Joe's expertise lies in loan portfolio management and risk analytics. Patrick Zoro www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-z-08bb5b5a/Lehigh Master in Financi
Alpha Mining
Patrick Zoro discusses Alpha Mining with Bogdan Ivaniuk,
Co-Founder & CEO at AlphaCube. Bogdan is also a Quantitative Researcher and Algorithmic Trader.
Both discusses the interesting AlphaCube's approach of alpha mining algorithm, which has the capability to generate up to 40 million strategies daily on a single CPU. To achieve high-speed computation, AlphaCube employs a method of precalcula
“The 2-Hour Job Search“ Interview
Patrick Zoro https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-z-08bb5b5a/ in a vivid discussion with book author Steve Dalton https://www.linkedin.com/in/daltonsteve/
Various topics are addressed through the lens of the students seeking a first job to the hiring manager. The conversation explores the psychology behind a LinkedIn, faceless approach vs the face to face relationship building but challenging ap
Quant Finance and Physics
Professor Zoro speaks with Samuel Black about the interesting relationship between Quant Finance and the world of Physics.
Samuel Black is a Master in Financial Engineering, with an undergraduate in Physics.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-v-black/
Patrick Zoro
https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-z-08bb5b5a/
Lehigh Master in Financial Engineeringhttps://business.lehigh.edu/academics/gradu
"The January Effect" and Stock Prices
Professor Zoro speaks with Brett Friedman about one of the most popular Wall Street auguries the so-called “January Barometer,” or the belief that the market’s investment performance in January is indicative of the rest of the year.
Brett Friedman has managed risk for over 30 years and has broad experience working with financial institutions in risk management and operations. He has built and m
What about the Master in Financial Engineering?
Professor Zoro speaks with Quant Youtuber Mehul Mehta about the Master in Financial Engineering. Various aspects of the program are discussed including who is best for that program, the curriculum, the jobs
Mehul is currently working at Charles Schwab as a Manager in Risk Modeling/Analytics department. Prior to Charles Schwab, Mehul was working at Regions Bank as Assistant Vice President in the
What about the VIX?
Professor Zoro speaks with Brett Friedman about the VIXX and how it has behaved recently. Various aspects of VIX are explored including how it is calculated, its relevancy and its behavior.
Brett Friedman has managed risk for over 30 years and has broad experience working with financial institutions in risk management and operations. He has built and managed three risk management organizations
Crypto: The Latest Frontier in Research
Professor Zoro speaks with Omid Malekan about Crypto and the need for more peer reviewed academic research. Various aspects of this topic are explored including the need for a "Crypto PE" for example.
Omid is a an Adjunct Professor @ Columbia Business School, explainer in chief at https://www.linkedin.com/company/conversanceinc/ and a book author https://www.omidmalekan.com
Patrick Zoro
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Stock Options Perspective with Garrett DeSimone, PhD
Professor Zoro speaks with Garrettt DeSimone about Options. Various aspects of the Option environment are discussed including OptionMetrics, Out of the money put, Fat tales, Long Dated Options, Taleb Nassim, Blogs by Garrett
Garret is Head of Quant Research at OptionMetrics
https://www.linkedin.com/in/garrett-desimone-ph-d-4ab7ba68/
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/bearish-traders
Multi-Factor Investing Model with Asim Turk
Professor Zoro speaks with Asim Turk, MFE about the Multi-Factor Investing Model Asim has been working on. In additional to Multi Factor, various aspects of the project are being addressed such as Pandas - data manipulation for stocks and factor returns
Scikit-learn - multiple linear regression for stock returns and factor returns
Pulp - linear programming Library for Optimization
Tableu - visual
CHATGPT: Wiki Page with Allan Frank and Kirin Zhang
Professor Zoro speaks with Allan Frank and Kirin Zhang about Kirin's new Wiki Page: what it is? how is it used? what will be its impact? and its relationship with ChatGpt.
https://bronze-shield-a82.notion.site/f01f5cf581284adbb0c8fcc1844f810b?v=f8e31c76015b4637a95afc1d4e54871c
https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-z-08bb5b5a
Allan Frank brings over 45 years of technology and business leadershi
ChatGPT: Plugins with Allan Frank
Professor Zoro speaks with Allan Frank and Kushal Gowda about Plugins: what it is? how is it used? what will be its impact? and its relationship with ChatGpt.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-z-08bb5b5a
Allan Frank brings over 45 years of technology and business leadership. His background includes CTO for Capgemini, CTO for the City of Philadelphia, Chief Digital Officer & Co-founder of The
ChatGPT: Prompt Engineering with Allan Frank and Kushal Gowda
Professor Zoro speaks with Allan Frank and Kushal Gowda about Prompt Engineering: what it is? how is it use? what will be its impact? and its relationship with ChatGpt.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-z-08bb5b5a
Allan Frank brings over 45 years of technology and business leadership. His background includes CTO for Capgemini, CTO for the City of Philadelphia, Chief Digital Officer & Co-fou
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and the Polycrisis with Frank VanGansbeke
Patrick Zoro speaks with Frank Van Gansbeke about the SVB collapse and the Polycrisis. The discussion brings forth several topics such as Too much money in the system, too much leverage, drive to de-regulate, excess liquidity, the impact of the lack of competition, remnants of the 2008 crisis. Frank is executive scholar in Residence at Middlebury (Collegehttps://www.middlebury.edu/college/people/
Multi Factor Investing with Rodrigo Petricioli, MFE
Professor Zoro speaks with Rodrigo Petricioli, MFE (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodrigo-petricioli) about Multi Factor Investing, Modeling. They discuss how such a model can be valuable when risk goes up (especially during a recession). Rodrigo also explains the strategy and coding used in this project.
Professor Zoro manages Lehigh MFE program https://business.lehigh.edu/academics/graduate/mast
Pairs Trading with Charles Dotson, MFE
Professor Zoro speaks with Charles Dotson MFE '22 , Director of Research at Quantify Chaos about his project on pairs trading. They get to discuss some aspects of this project that is gaining traction with prop desks. They also talk about the different ways for students to get quant jobs (Charles' innovative concept of "who you know", "what you know" and "What can you do" is explored).
https://
Data Analytics vs Fintech with Troy Aider, PhD
Professor Patrick Zoro speaks with Professor Troy Adair about the differences between Data Analytics and Fintech.
Professor Zoro is a director for the Master in Financial Engineering https://business.lehigh.edu/academics/graduate/masters-programs/ms-financial-engineering
Professor Aider is a vocal advocate for the use of technology to enhance business processes, and is the author of numerous te
The Geometry of Time with Aria Kartar Kaur Sangha, CFA
Professor Patrick Zoro speaks with Gurraj Singh Sangha, CFA Chief Quantitative Investment Officer about the concept of time within the alternative investment signal realm. The concept of Theory of Relativity, Free Will, Block Theory, the works of Henri Bergson and Martin Armstrong make their way into the conversation.
Patrick Zoro Manages the Master In Financial Engineering program at Lehigh Uni
Swing Trading
Patrick Zoro Director of the master's in financial engineering program at Lehigh University has a quant discussion with Rekhit Pachanekar on Swing Trading.
Rekhit is a quant researcher at Quantinsti and creating courses in the field of algo trading and machine learning. He is the co-author of the "Machine Learning for Trading" book which is available on Amazon as well.
QUANT MOVES
Professor Zoro speaks with Quant Youtuber and Dimitri Bianco, FRM about job prospects for Quants. The changing landscape is discussed, and advice provided to graduates.
Reinforcement Learning and Interpretability
Patrick Zoro welcomes to his podcasts Hariom Tatsat author of the book "Machine Learning and Data Science Blueprints for Finance: From Building Trading Strategies to Robo-Advisors Using Python 1st Edition", Bryan Yekelchik Lehigh MFE graduate and Zach Coriarty 4th Year, Bachelors of Science in Computer Science and Business at Lehigh University, Interested in data science and ML, LinkedIn: https://
Commonality in Liquidity
Patrick Zoro speaks with Dr Neal Snow on his recently published co-authored work on an examination on search-based peer (SBP) groups proposed by Lee, Ma, and Wang (2015) and their relationship with commonality in liquidity. Their results confirm that SBP affiliation is a significant determinant of commonality in liquidity and, unlike market- and industry-commonality, SBP-commonality has been incre
COP26, Climate change and the oversight of carbon footprint in multi-factor modeling
Patrick Zoro speaks to a former Wall Street colleague, Frank Van Gansbeke https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-van-gansbeke-48199918/
Frank has been active on many fronts: Teaching, Blockchain and now is looking into Climate Change. To that end he authored the following forbes document aimed at highlighting the true impact of climate change but from a financial perspective. In other words, we may
Algorithmic Sports Trading
Patrick Zoro welcomes three Master in Financial Engineering graduates from Lehigh University to talk about their forward looking project on Sports Analytic. These MFE are advised in their continuing efforts by Asset Management firms in the US and abroad.
Jack Dean is a second year MFE student graduating in May 2022. He has a BS in Finance from Lehigh. He is at the time of the recording a part-
Covered Rate Parity and Crypto
Patrick Zoro discusses the application of the Covered Rate Parity principle to the Cryptocurrency market via a novel research idea from Matthew Marine with guidance from Gaurav Singh.
Matthew (https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-marine) is a Lehigh MFE student graduating in 2022. Before attending Lehigh, he worked at Wedbush Securities where he managed the corporate Treasury and specialized in shor
NLP & Quantamental Investing
Professor Zoro bring together two data scientist to discuss Natural Language Processing (NLP), Alternative Data and how it is used in Asset Management.
Yuyu Fan, Ph.D is a VP Data Scientist and uses Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning techniques to generate investment signals and to improve client services via various types of data.
Vincent Tang, MFE is an AVP Quantitative Research A
Forensic Cryptocurrency Trading Analysis
Lehigh Master in Financial Engineering graduates, Benjamin Durkee and Matsela Matsela discuss their research results on the analysis of Forensic Accounting Analysis of Trade Volumes, Coinbase-Pro and Binance, HitBTC
Impromptu Blockchain Discussion between Nick Gans and MFE Students
Professor Zoro and his capstone MFE class speaks with Nick Gans, Director of Research and Development at Inca Digital, https://inca.digital/ an open data aggregation and intelligence company. At Inca, he helps build systems which model and analyze the digital asset ecosystem.
Machine Learning and Data Science in Finance
Patrick Zoro welcomes a machine learning expert and explore the finance applications. Hariom Tatsat currently works as a Vice President in the Quantitative Analytics division of an investment bank in New York. Hariom has extensive experience as a Quant in the areas of predictive modelling, and financial instrument pricing in several global investment banks and financial organizations.
Hariom is t
GameStop, Robin Hood and Citadel
Professor Zoro discusses with his Capstone Financial Engineering students Jack Dean (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-dean-445336150/) and Ramos Wu (https://www.linkedin.com/in/zhiyinwu/) about this interesting situation
Patrick Zoro is Professor of Practice and a director of the Master in Financial Engineering Program https://business.lehigh.edu/academics/graduate/masters-programs/ms-financial-en
The Future of Quant Education
Patrick Zoro discusses what is next for quant degrees with Dimitri Bianco, FRM and quant youtuber with more than 1,000,000 views (https://www.youtube.com/user/djmacmusic) ; Anupriya Gupta of Quantinsti (https://www.quantinsti.com) and Nicolas Rocha a graduate of Lehigh's Master in Financial Engineering.
Patrick Zoro is Professor of Practice and a director of the Master in Financial Engineering Pr
Algo Trading
Professor Zoro speaks with Ishan Shah about Algorithm Trading basics. Ishan Shah is a Quant Researcher at Quantra by QuantInsti. He also worked with Barclays in the Global Markets team & with Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He has a rich experience in financial markets spanning across various asset classes in different roles. He is an expert in Statistical Arbitrage, data analysis and modelling,
2nd Quant / Financial Engineering Conference
Welcome to the second quant / Financial Engineering Conference from Lehigh University with the latest topics on the world of Quantitative Finance
Data Forensics in the Age of Blockchain
Professor Zoro speaks with Nick Gans, Director of Research and Development at Inca Digital, https://inca.digital/ an open data aggregation and intelligence company. At Inca, he helps build systems which model and analyze the digital asset ecosystem. They talk about forensic data analysis and how the blockchain is handling the ability to track data integrity within the financial system
Covid19 + Recession Impact on Master in Financial Engineering Programs
Dimitri Bianco FRM comes back to the podcast to discuss his on the impact of Covid 19 on MFE programs
Quantum Computing
Patrick Zoro speaks with Dr. Tamas Terlaky and Dr. Luis Zuluaga about Quantum Computing. Amplitude, Scaling, Quantum Supremacy, Cubits are discussed. They also discuss their DARPA grants aimed at exploring optimization algorithm.
Dr.Terlaky is professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering https://engineering.lehigh.edu/ise/faculty/678,
Dr. Zuluaga is Assistant Professor, Industrial and Syste
Business Schools Need to Integrate Data Science
Professor Zoro makes a long distance call to India and speaks with Vishal Bagla about his LinkedIn article
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/vishal-bagla_why-business-schools-need-to-integrate-data-activity-6586137552481280000-cVzg
Vishal is currently a manager at https://www.alvarezandmarsal.com/
and is a graduate of https://www.iimcal.ac.in/
Patrick Zoro is a director for the Master in Financia
How to choose a Quant / Financial Engineering Master Program?
Professor Patrick Zoro speaks with Quant Dimitri Bianco, FRM (YouTuber with 8,000 subscribers, 596,000 views over past 4 years) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLHvJ1KNGE1s-A3ODiSgplw
about what students should know when selecting a Financial Engineering or Quant program. With more than 40 programs to pick from the US along, students have a daunting task. While the rewards can be had with poss
Is Excel Dying?
Patrick Zoro seats down again with Dr. Troy Adair as a follow-up to their previous podcast to discuss the potential demise of Excel and the impact on students' curriculum choices.
Professor Zoro is a former Managing Director and the director of the Master of Financial Engineering program at Lehigh University. https://business.lehigh.edu/academics/graduate/masters-programs/ms-financial-engineering
Blockchain and the End of the Dollar Dominance
Professor Patrick Zoro speaks with Dr. Hank Korth about Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, Libra, Databases, Brenton Woods, Congress, China and the future of the dollar.
Dr Korth is a Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering dept of Lehigh University (csb.lehigh.edu) . He is Co-Director of a unique program in Computer Science and Business. He has authored a leading database textbook, Datab
Parallelism and Data Insurgency
Patrick Zoro seats down with Dr. Troy Adair to discuss Parallelism, Moore's law, the potential demise of Excel, R, Python, Artificial Intelligence, the Student as a problem solver, the Future of financial analysis and the fast changing world in which students and Educators are facing and will required skills retooling.
Patrick Zoro is a former Managing Director and the director of the Master of
What is Machine Learning?
Patrick Zoro from the Master of Financial Engineering Program at Lehigh University speak with Dr. Rebecca Wang from the College of Business about Machine Leaning, Supervised and unsupervised, Data Scientists vs Data Engineers.
https://business.lehigh.edu/directory/rebecca-j-h-wang
https://business.lehigh.edu/academics/graduate/masters-programs/ms-financial-engineering/contact-us
Crypto Currencies, Blockchain: LIBRA
Patrick Zoro speaks with Dr. Hank Korth about Libra and how it may impact the financial system. This is a primer on Libra with open ended view of its future.
Dr Korth is a Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering dept of Lehigh University (csb.lehigh.edu) . He is Co-Director of a unique program in Computer Science and Business. He has authored a leading database textbook, Database Syst
Predictive Algorithms
Patrick Zoro speaks with Gabriel Guellen, a graduate student enrolled in the Master of Financial Engineering Program at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA, USA. Gabriel discusses elements related to a Quantitative Student Competition aimed at predicting Credit Default Swaps such as Genetic algorithms, Random Forests and Long Short-Term Memory
Economics: Higher Education linked to lower minimum wage in the US
Patrick Zoro speaks with Dr. Christos Pargianas about his recently published research article: "Education and the minimum wage in the US."
The article shows that the larger proportion of individuals with college degrees has pushed the level of the minimum wage lower. Dr. Pargianas offers a most interesting explanation as to why that is. We also get to talk about the potential economic impact
Central Bank actions could impact market negatively
Patrick Zoro is speaking with Pawel Mosakowski about the impact that Fed policies on market performance and why we may be heading toward uncharted risky territories. The topic of Risk Management is brought up as a mean to handle the uncertainty.
Pawel Mosakowski is an accomplished fixed income PM, trader and an expert risk manager. He spent over 15 years in the institutional fixed income busines
2008 Sub-Prime Crisis and Securitization
Patrick Zoro is speaking with Pierre Lepinoy from Nice (France) about the 2008 Sub prime crisis from the perspective of a banker involved in securitization.
Pierre Lépinoy holds a degree in economics from Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and an MBA from ENSAE (Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique).
After working as an economist for the World Bank, and as a negotiator of
Introduction to Credit Insurance
Patrick Zoro speaks with Stephen Kay a Managing Director at Marsh USA about his days at McGill University in Canada and move to New York. The topic of credit insurance is being introduced which allow banks to manage their exposure.
Working on a Capital Markets Trading Floor
Patrick Zoro speaks with Robert Shrekgast former Credit Structurer and Marketer who is in the launching phase of an emerging market fund. Robert revisits his former stomping ground and offers insights on what it takes to work in trading, research and structuring, back-office. He also offers insights in the job interview process.
Portfolio Management and Banking
Marcia Banks Deputy Director of the International Association of Portfolio Managers based in New York talks with Patrick Zoro about the role of Portfolio Management, regulatory changes impacting banks and the changing banking environment.
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