Christopher D. Clack

Summary

I provide expert opinion and specialist skills in the area of Financial Computing:

An expert on Intelligent Systems and their application in the Financial Services Industry
Specialist skills in Payment and Settlement Systems architectures and core algorithms
A senior academic at a top UK research university, leading research in Financial Computing
Providing clarity in:
- understanding of business objectives and drivers that influence technology decisions
- analysis of complex systems
- communication of complex ideas
20 years experience as a consultant to blue-chip clients, including Accenture, Clearstream, CrestCo, LloydsTSB and Reuters
A director of 2 companies, one of which specialises in high-performance algorithms and architectures for financial securities settlement systems.

Exotic technologies for trading support, portfolio management, quantitative analysis, and modelling investment and market dynamics. For example:
- Genetic algorithms (GA)
- Genetic Programming (GP)
- Swarm Agents
Systems architectures:
- parallel processing
- securities settlement systems
- payments systems.
Complex algorithms
Modelling and simulation
Securities settlement algorithms

Review and Develop
- intelligent software systems
- dynamic business processes
- financial modelling
- portfolio optimisation
- new algorithms
Due-Diligence Review of Financial Technologies
- for tender selection
- for investment decision
- for legal review during merger and acquisition
Review and Challenge
- payment and settlement systems architectures
- high-level performance assessment
- fitness to business purpose
- fitness to stated requirement
Clients have included: