Provider Profile
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Capturing market trends
Adam Prather, principal at Solve Advisors, answers SCI's questions
Q: How and when did Solve Advisors become involved in the structured finance market?
Provider Profile 28 November 2011
A: Solve Advisors was formed in July by myself and three colleagues - Eugene Grinberg, Matt McCann and Gerard Nealon. We were all formerly at Red Pine Advisors, which was acquired by Houlihan Lokey last year. At our previous employer, we developed many tools, including a pricing .......
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Consumer focus
CastleOak Securities head of fixed income sales & tr...
Q: How, why and when did CastleOak Securities become involved in the structured credit and securitisation market?
PdC: CastleOak Securities has been in existence for six years now and the founding partners all came from another investment bank. CastleOak's background is in consumer-related ABS, such as credit cards and autos, as well as MBS and CMBS.The idea has been to .......
Provider Profile 22 November 2011
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Technological focus
Avarina Miller, svp at Demica, answers SCI's questions
Q: How and when did Demica become involved in structured finance?
A: We have been around since 1992 and we have been involved in structured finance since we started. What we do is provide automated solutions for accounts receivables-based trade financing, which involves setting up and running the technology.Before joining Demica, I was on the .......
Provider Profile 15 August 2011
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Roadmap for adoption
Paul Middleton and Simon Rees-Goddard, vps at Sapient Global Markets, answer SCI's questions
Q: How did Sapient Global Markets become involved in the structured credit market?
Provider Profile 15 July 2011
SRG: Sapient Global Markets has been working with institutions involved in structured credit for over 20 years. Our unique perspective - born from being closely aligned with both market participants and system providers, intermediaries and regulatory bodies - enables us to provide a differentiated service to clients that .......
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Focus on flexibility
Gerrard Mahony, business development manager at Riskart, answers SCI's questions
Provider Profile 16 March 2011
Q: How and when did Riskart become involved in the CDS market?
A: Riskart is a highly focused Italian-based company concentrated on providing efficient OTC derivatives processing and administration to the middle and back offices of banks, fund management companies and corporates. We became involved with the CDS market several years ago as our clients began .......
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New valuation perspectives
Duff & Phelps' alternative asset advisory practice h...
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Q: How and when did Duff & Phelps become involved in structured finance?
WH: Duff & Phelps established a group to handle valuations of complex securitisations in 2005. But we had been outsourcing some projects to Dynamic Credit Partners for a number of years, so the acquisition of Dynamic's US consulting business (see SCI 16 December) .......
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African focus
Alfons Ideler, director and head of structured finance at Gl...
Q: How and when did GCR become involved in structured finance?
A: GCR first became active within structured finance over 10 years ago. We began by rating trade receivable transactions in South Africa.Q: Which market constituent is your main client base?
Provider Profile 17 November 2010
A: GCR is a full service rating agency, which was established over 15 years ago with claims paying ability ratings .......
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Panoramic approach
Bob Park, ceo and co-founder of FINCAD, answers SCI's questions
Q: How and when did FINCAD become involved in the structured finance markets?
A: FINCAD is a 20-year-old company. Our core competence is building financial analytics for valuation and risk measurement.We have been selling software for the last 19 years and over that time we have licensed our software to 4,000 different organisations in more than 80 different countries. Very .......
Provider Profile 5 November 2010
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Countering risk
Frank Iacono, partner at Riverside Risk Advisors, answers SCI's questions
Q: How and when did Riverside Risk Advisors become involved in the structured finance markets?
A: Although we formally announced our launch recently (see SCI issue 204), we have been quietly doing this business for about a year. There are several significant engagements we are currently working on and some we have already completed for clients.My own background is in .......
Provider Profile 25 October 2010
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Advocating change
Ann Hambly, ceo, and Brock Andrus, managing partner at 1st Service Solutions, answer SCI's questions
Q: How and when did 1st Service Solutions become involved in the structured finance market?
AH: I've been in the servicing industry for 34 years and a large amount of that time was spent in CMBS servicing. I was previously ceo at Prudential Servicing until 2005 and before that at GE and Nomura.The year before I founded 1st Service Solutions, .......
Provider Profile 20 October 2010
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Trading on trust
BTIG's London ceo Gary Hayes and Russell Scott, md and head...
Q: How and when did your firm become involved in the structured finance markets?
Provider Profile 29 September 2010
GH: BTIG was growing - mostly in equities, outsourced trading and prime brokerage - and at the end of 2008 we realised there would be an opportunity to do with international equities what we were already doing in the US. It was our customers who asked us .......
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Data warehousing
Greg Munves, vp at 1010data, answers SCI's questions
Q: How and when did 1010data become involved in the financial markets?
A: 1010data provides an analytics platform delivered over the web as a service. The data comes from our clients and third-party vendors.We began working with the New York Stock Exchange in 2001 and that relationship continues to this day. We host and provide .......
Provider Profile 4 August 2010
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Hedge hunting
Ari Bergmann, principal at Penso Advisors, answers SCI's questions
Provider Profile 14 July 2010
Q: How and when did Penso Advisors become involved in the business of systemic risk management?
A: Penso Advisors advises on systemic risk and manages tail hedging strategies for clients. The business was established at the beginning of 2010 because there was a realisation that systemic risk is here to stay. Systemic risk hit the market .......
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Secret service
Russel Parentela, md for BNY Mellon Structured Credit, answers SCI's questions
Q: How and when did BNY Mellon become involved with Structured Credit Connection?
Provider Profile 7 July 2010
A: Structured Credit Connection is a real-time auction marketplace, which allows us to act as agent in the structured credit trading area. We got involved based on the lessons learned from the financial crisis, a strong desire on the part of market participants for transparency and feedback we .......
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Capital retention
Dan Rosen, ceo and co-founder, and Benoit Fleury, head of fi...
Provider Profile 23 June 2010
Q: How and when did R2 Financial Technologies become involved in the structured credit market?
A: We started in this business by conducting groundbreaking research on how to price complex credit derivatives and structured finance assets for one of the largest structurers on Wall Street. That engagement helped us gain a deep understanding of the analytical .......
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A benchmark solution
Brian Upbin, director, index research, and David Tattan, vp,...
Q: How and when did Barclays Capital become involved in ABS indices?
BU: Barclays Capital publishes the leading family of broad-based fixed income and inflation-linked benchmarks for global investors. Fixed rate ABS have long been eligible for many of our flagship aggregate indices and as standalone ABS benchmarks for dedicated ABS investors.In 2004 we broadened .......
Provider Profile 16 June 2010
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Navigating the post-crisis landscape
Evan Schwartzberg, head of sales and trading, and Mathew Van...
Q: How and when did Odeon Capital Group become involved in the structured finance market?
MVA: Odeon Capital Group launched a year ago with six people and now has a head-count of almost 40. We're a full-service boutique broker-dealer, with over US$2.5bn in transaction volume so far.Our expertise is in distressed corporate credits and structured .......
Provider Profile 9 June 2010
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Demystifying the black box
Jeremy Hintze, coo at ClearStructure, answers SCI's questions
Q: How and when did ClearStructure become involved in the structured credit/ABS market?
A: ClearStructure started as the IT\systems group of Atlantic Asset Management (Atlantic) in Stamford, Connecticut, back in 1993. We built an internal portfolio management system to manage all of Atlantic's fixed income portfolios.In 1998 Atlantic issued its first CDO. When we were .......
Provider Profile 7 April 2010
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High-touch coverage
Mike Foggia, evp, and PK Jain, md, at Advisors Asset Management, answer SCI's questions
Provider Profile 31 March 2010
Q: How and when did Advisors Asset Management (AAM) become involved in the structured credit market?
MF: Advisors Asset Management is a diversified broker-dealer with a growing separately managed asset accounts group that has been in business since 1979. About 10 years ago the partners at AAM established a fixed income platform, with the aim of .......
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Solid operations
Douglas Long, evp business strategy at Principia Partners, answers SCI's questions
Provider Profile 17 March 2010
Q: How and when did Principia Partners become involved in the structured finance market?
A: Principia Partners was established in 1995. The initial focus was on structured products more broadly, before structured finance as an asset class gained significant traction. Certainly before 2000 Principia concentrated on derivative products, enabling clients to structure, value, risk manage and .......
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A personalised service
Steve Curry and Mike Nawas, partners at Bishopsfield Capital Partners, answer SCI's questions
Q: How and when did Bishopsfield Capital Partners become involved in the structured credit market?
MN: Steve and I each have over 20 years' structured finance experience gained at ABN AMRO and RBS.The recent turmoil in financial markets has led to unprecedented amounts of government support for the banking sector and market liquidity, a general .......
Provider Profile 3 March 2010
